Tejas Sachdeva

[SpaceSquid @sfspacesquid]

dudes be on twitter yapping about cognition vs factory

yall need to lock in instead and use your cognition, otherwise you will end up working in a factory

[Adam Rankin @rankintweets]

Every 3 years a new water bottle brand completely oneshots middle class white women like clockwork

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

No, I do not want the AI overview.
I want to read a Wikipedia page that leads me to another Wikipedia page, and another, and another, and get lost for hours down a completely unrelated rabbit hole as the gods intended.

[“paula” @paularambles]

they call them crisps there

[Nathan Clark @nathanclark]

it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

Building Viceroy's House

Today, Prime Minister Modi announced that the statue of Lutyens - the architect of New Delhi - would be removed from Rashtrapati Bhavan.

[Google Labs @GoogleLabs]

🚨NEW LABS EXPERIMENT 🚨

Introducing Disco, an experimental way to discover new generative AI features on the web. Our first feature, GenTabs, uses Gemini 3 to remix your open tabs into totally custom apps to help you get more out of the web.

Learn more and join the waitlist → https://t.co/3eph6xXi1l

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

Once the summer is over and Mistral is back at work I'm sure they're gonna be dropping some cool stuff

[Tejas Sachdeva @Tejas_Schdv]

@itsDrDrewithaSh how do we stay in the know for july? 👀

[Tejas Sachdeva @Tejas_Schdv]

@ntkris v cool!

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

A Brief History of Holi

This week marks the arrival of Holi, India’s most colourful festival.
It signals the arrival of spring and celebrates the victory of good over evil.

It is also one of India’s most ancient festivals, going back thousands of years.

[Tejas Sachdeva @Tejas_Schdv]

@jakezward Send

[Tejas Sachdeva @Tejas_Schdv]

@roshanonline @tseringredmond @seosparkio Would love to try. How’s your data for Uk?

[Tejas Sachdeva @Tejas_Schdv]

@ankurnagpal google sheets the goat bi tool still

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

Many of you know that I am a huge fan of the Meta Ray Bans - I take more photos while I’m on vacation, and have ended up putting it near my wallet and keys as far as my everyday carry

It’s funny since I have owned almost every VR headset, and also every snap spectacle, and this is the one that has resonated the most. Why?

- for a long time every device in this category has been designed to broadcast that you were wearing a computer on your face. Of course, Google glass was like this, but also the snap spectacles made you look like you were a try hard. Gen Z wanna be when in fact you just want to wear something that blends in. I have never had anyone ask me about my glasses and that is exactly what I want.

- the Meta Ray Bans do one thing very very well - take pics and video - and directly synchronized to your phone without trying to do the evil platform thing of locking all the media into just the Meta apps. The snap spectacles did this, where the photos would need to be synced into Snapchat and wouldn’t just go into your camera. That made the device much less useful.

- It’s just as important what the device doesn’t try to do. There’s no display, there’s no App Store, and it doesn’t try to give you map directions. As a result, it’s able to squeeze a very specific set of use cases into a natural form factor. I use it for photos and also sometimes as a Bluetooth headset to listen to podcasts or whatever. It’s a masterful navigation of constraints

- my main complaint is that the battery life is just a few hours. I’m sure they will improve it to the point where you can wear it all day. It also takes a second sometimes for the device to pair to your phone once you put it on, and so it doesn’t have the instant feeling of being able to put it on and take a photo. Sometimes there’s a five away.

- The team seems to be working on various AI experiences that take advantage of the camera and audio inputs. So far they just work OK for me. It’s very cool to investigate, and I hope that a bunch of new experiences come out of it, but I also hope that the core features of battery life and taking photos continue to improve.

Overall, I find the Meta devices to be the most interesting new product in the AR field. Instead of putting full-blown general purpose computers on their faces, it may turn out that something much more constrained is the form factor that works.

Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. Let’s all remember that we had a few generations of smart phones like the Microsoft Windows phone that tried to fit every capability, including a keyboard and a start menu, into the form factor of a small phone. It wasn’t until we went all glass and we thought the UX around taps and swipes that the whole package worked.

There may be a similar thing going on with an XR. We are trying as an industry to replicate the mobile or PC ecosystem these new platforms. That’s why there are apps, and an App Store, and the thought is that people will work and socialize full-time inside the products the way that we are glued to our phones. Perhaps the right way forward is a completely different set of consumer behaviors around when and how you engage in the product.

😎

[Tejas Sachdeva @Tejas_Schdv]

@petergyang Such an amazing product, best product I’ve used since the OG AirPod pros

[Tejas Sachdeva @Tejas_Schdv]

Marvel is backkkkk #DeadpoolAndWolverine

[Tejas Sachdeva @Tejas_Schdv]

@jelambhatt Thanks for organizing!!

[Scully @isthatscully]

the Central line

[Tejas Sachdeva @Tejas_Schdv]

@gabriel__xyz Let me know how it goes!