Prashanth Ramakrishnan

📶 Engineering lead @zenjobcom prev @philips alum @vielFHKiel. all views are personal

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.

Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

[Jorge Castillo @JorgeCastilloPr]

A Claude Code skill that decompiles Android APK and AAR files and extracts the HTTP APIs used by the app.

Scary. https://t.co/EtLalWvOhL

[Sanjiv Kapoor @TheSanjivKapoor]

The north and south corridors unfortunately not available to Indian carriers. The north is blocked due to no Pakistan overfly. And the south over Oman and Saudi Arabia due to DGCA directive. Therefore heading West from India is extremely difficult now.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’re officially opening our Bengaluru office—our new home base in India, and Anthropic's second office in Asia-Pacific.

India is our second-largest market for https://t.co/RxKnLNNcNR. We’re launching new partnerships to deepen our long-term commitment: https://t.co/q94L1Hesq1

[Essential @essential]

Create apps shaped exactly around your specific needs and context.

That's what Essential Apps are.

You describe what you need. AI builds it. It appears on your phone's home screen, ready to use.

One billion apps for one billion people.

Beta starts today on Nothing Playground.

[LINKIN PARK @linkinpark]

Brigade Innovation Garden. Bengaluru, India. January 23rd.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Figma @figma]

TODAY → https://t.co/JQTPeNpyVq

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I only recently learned that The Chainsmokers are massive tech nerds - they created the pager sounds for @incident_io!!

[Deedy @deedydas]

This is the #1 post in r/OpenAI today.

[jack @jack]

this is the use case.

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

gm from Bangalore 🇮🇳

Out exploring the city.

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

@realchrisebert Recruiting only becomes more important as your role grows.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

love the feedback! - to MCP it is!

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Your goal is NOT to prove you're smart. It's to make problems go away.

[Ozzy Osbourne @OzzyOsbourne]

The original @BlackSabbath – Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward – will play for the first time in 20 years. The band will take to the stage to headline BACK TO THE BEGINNING on July 5th at Villa Park.

The all-star event will celebrate the true creators of heavy metal and will see @OzzyOsbourne play his own short set before joining with Black Sabbath for his final bow.

“It’s my time to go Back to the Beginning….time for me to give back to the place where I was born,” Ozzy Osbourne said. “How blessed am I to do it with the help of people whom I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham Forever.”

Formed in Birmingham in 1968 and going on to become one of most successful metal bands of all time, Black Sabbath have sold over 75 million albums worldwide across their legendary career. Setting the blueprint for the many routes heavy metal took, Black Sabbath’s influence and importance is as vital today as it was in the early 1970s.

Music Director @tmorello said: “This will be the greatest heavy metal show ever.”

BACK TO THE BEGINNING will feature sets from @Metallica, @Slayer, @Pantera, @GojiraMusic, @Halestorm, @AliceInChains, @LambOfGod, @Anthrax and @MastodonMusic

The all-day event will also feature a supergroup of musicians. Artists announced so far include @BillyCorgan (The Smashing Pumpkins), @DavidMDraiman (Disturbed), @DuffMcKagan & @Slash (Guns ‘n Roses), Frank Bello (Anthrax), @FredDurst (Limp Bizkit), Jake E Lee, @JDavisOfficial (Korn), KK Downing, Lzzy Hale (Halestorm), Mike Bordin (Faith No More), Rudy Sarzo, @SammyHagar, @ScottIanthrax (Anthrax), Sleep Token ii (Sleep Token), Papa V Perpetua (Ghost), @TomMorello (Rage Against The Machine), @WolfVanHalen and @ZakkWyldeBLS.

More names will be announced shortly.

Tickets go on sale at 10am GMT on Friday 14th February 2025 at https://t.co/FmNL9uFzN5.

All profits will go to the following charities: CureParkinson’s, Birmingham Childrens Hospital and Acorn Childrens Hospice, a Children’s Hospice supported by Aston Villa.

[Ranchhod Das Chanchad @rdchanchad]

How true 🤣

[Thomas Dohmke @ashtom]

Although this is my first visit as GitHub CEO in India, this is not my first time here. I love this country. This is me in 2008, in Bengaluru — I haven’t aged at all 😝

India is at the nexus of monumental economic opportunity, as it is set to become the world’s largest developer community at the exact point in time the age of AI is taking off. More from me on this soon.

Fair warning: I’ll be posting a lot this week. Namaste, India! 🇮🇳

[GitHub @github]

🥳 We are thrilled to announce that GitHub Copilot Chat in JetBrains IDEs is now generally available. ⬇️
https://t.co/zdKZu1moAN

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

RT if you think the world needs a picture of @MKBHD wearing the Apple Vision Pro AND the Dyson Air Purifying Headphones... at the same time.