Priyank

Fintech, Product and AI | Ex @Nubank & @UPI_NPCI | MBA @IIMAhmedabad |

[Priyank @TheDreamStartUp]

Diving into ChatDev : Autonomous AI Agents for Software Development

I've been diving deep into the AI (as usual), and I stumbled upon this super cool project called "ChatDev" by OpenBMB. Honestly, I have no words about where AI is heading, and projects like this is a prime example.
https://t.co/rhtGHhOmCi

What's ChatDev All About?

Imagine a software company, but with a twist. Instead of humans, it's fully run by AI agents. From the CEO, CTO to the Engineer, designer, Tester, documentation guy - every role is played by an AI agent. Each one is independent, smart, and reshaping the product as per the role.

How's It All Work?

These AI agents in ChatDev are teaming up in what they call "functional seminars". Here, multiple AI agents, each powered by its unique AI model, collaborate in a virtual office environment. These agents, organized into departments like development, coding, testing, and documentation, work together on tasks such as software development or making an App. The process mirrors a team of human developers, with agents discussing, planning, coding, testing, and documenting results. This collaborative approach showcases the remarkable problem-solving capabilities and its potential to mimic human teamwork. It's all built on same massive language models (LLMs), but it is like multiple LLMs working together debating, disagreeing, & finally collaborating on the solution to get much better Product.

#AI #ML #Softwaredevelopment #Product #LLM #OpenAI #GPT

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

The incentive scheme on promoting low value UPI transactions, which has been approved by the Cabinet today will encourage digital payments and further 'Ease of Living.'

https://t.co/TmVtSMsEoH

[Ministry of Finance @FinMinIndia]

Speculation and claims that the MDR will be charged on UPI transactions are completely false, baseless, and misleading.

Such baseless and sensation-creating speculations cause needless uncertainty, fear and suspicion among our citizens.

The Government remains fully committed to promoting digital payments via UPI.

[Priyank @TheDreamStartUp]

@RamaswmySridhar @Snowflake @grok can you ELI5 this thread for easy understanding

[Movez @0xMovez]

Head of Claude Code:

"Fable 5 is our most powerful model for running self-improving agent systems.

Add /loops, dynamic workflows, dreaming - and you are unstoppable."

In 12 minutes, the Head of Claude shows you how to build self-improving agent systems with Fable 5 from scratch.

Worth more than a $500 agent-building course.

Watch today. Then learn how to run the same setup in just a few clicks with Adaline ↓

[Codez @0xCodez]

Claude Code creator:

"I don't prompt Claude anymore. I write loops - and the loops do the work. My job is to write loops."

in 30 minutes Boris reveals his actual daily Claude Code setup.

Claude Code + loops + dynamic workflow

Worth more than a $500 vibe-coding course

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

On Monday we announced an equity offering for Alphabet - part of our multi-year investment strategy to meet the AI opportunity ahead and support the demand we’re seeing from enterprises and consumers. Pleased to share the offering was well over-subscribed. We raised a total of ~$45B, with an additional $40B to come as part of an “at the market” program starting in Q3 (for a total of ~ $85B). A huge thank you to our investors, including Berkshire Hathaway who invested $10B.

[Prerana Nireeksha Amanna @AmannaPrerana]

Earlier, my heart would ache whenever I saw people stuck in a sub-par life, poor health, constant money struggles, broken relationships, and a deep sense of emptiness.

I genuinely believed that if someone just showed them the right path, gave them a little guidance or support, they could turn everything around. I held onto that hope so tightly.

But over time, life has taught me a quieter, heavier truth.

More often than not, no amount of help or direction seems to create lasting change for them. The patterns repeat. The misery lingers.

The real difference between someone living a high performing, fulfilling life and those who remain stuck isn’t intelligence, background, or even luck. It comes down to three simple yet profound things:

Accountability, Choice, and Action.

A high performing person takes full ownership of their life. the wins, the failures, the mess, and everything in between. There’s no blaming others, no “why me,” no excuses. When things fall apart, their first question is, “What can I learn? How do I grow from this?”

They make the hard choices every single day. Even when they don’t feel like it. Even when their body screams for comfort, when motivation is nowhere to be found, when the easier path is calling their name they still show up. They choose discipline over desire, growth over comfort, and purpose over temporary relief.

And they don’t wait for life to happen to them. They take consistent, deliberate action toward what matters. No endless postponing. No “I’ll start tomorrow.” They move, even if it’s small steps, even when it’s uncomfortable.

So when you see someone living what looks like “the dream life,” please know this:

It wasn’t luck.
It wasn’t an overnight miracle.

It was years of quiet, unseen days where they did what 99.9% of people aren’t willing to do.

Day after day. Month after month. Year after year. They chose themselves, even when no one was watching.

I have realised that you can give some folks all the support, right direction, mentor them but all of this is void.

Their relationship with comfort is greater than their desire of excellence.

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Show me the thing you’ve built with AI you’re most proud of. Reply with a working product URL and what model / agent you primarily used.

[Shravan Venkataraman @theBuoyantMan]

BREAKING: Vishal Sikka has joined Anthropic

[Priyank @TheDreamStartUp]

@Tere_do_nainaaa @grok who is this person

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Deedy @deedydas]

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen.

Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation).

Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there.

Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI.

As a result,
1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb.
Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more.

2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future).
Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire"

3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed.
Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies.

4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either.
No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money."

I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here.

Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success".

Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Krishna Rao is the CFO of Anthropic, and this is his first podcast appearance.

He joined the company two years ago when run-rate revenue was about $250M. Today it is $30B. He has helped raise ~$75B and is responsible for the procurement and allocation of compute.

I feel lucky we get to hear what it is like to sit inside a company this consequential at a moment this pivotal.

We discuss:
- The cone of uncertainty
- How he allocates compute across Trainium, TPUs, and GPUs
- What investors misunderstand about model companies
- Why the returns to frontier intelligence keep rising
- Platform vs application and where Anthropic builds its own products
- How Anthropic uses Claude internally

I have asked my closing question about the kindest thing more than 500 times. Krishna's answer is one I have never heard before.

Enjoy!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:38 The Compute Canvas
6:51 The "Cone of Uncertainty"
11:58 Why the Returns to Frontier Intelligence Are So High
16:45 Recursive Self-Improvement
20:20 Scaling Laws
23:30 Sourcing $100 Billion in Compute
28:05 Platform vs. Application Strategy
32:52 Pricing Dynamics
38:48 How Anthropic’s Finance Team Uses Claude
43:24 Raising Capital & Overcoming Investor Skepticism
52:32 Public Perception, Risks, and Government Regulation
57:25 Mythos Release
1:12:33 What Could Derail the AI Revolution?
1:13:47 Biotech and Healthcare
1:15:31 The Kindest Thing

[mitsuri @0xmitsurii]

Barack Obama: "Just learn how to get stuff done, and people will notice."

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

The most female-led product org in tech right now:

Chief Product Officer: Ami Vora
Claude Code/Cowork Head of Product: Cat Wu
Claude Code/Cowork Head of Eng: Fiona Fung
Claude Platform Head of Product: Angela Jiang
Claude Platform Head of Eng: Katelyn Lesse
Research Head of Product: Dianne Penn
President: Daniela Amodei

(Also, the fastest-growing company in history)

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

When one thing becomes abundant and cheap, another thing becomes scarce and valuable.

[Ankur Nagpal @ankurnagpal]

Announcing my new thing:

I'm launching a new public venture fund

USVC is built by AngelList with @naval shaping our investment strategy in the technology companies building our future

And unlike traditional venture funds, everyone can invest along with just $500:

[Harshil Mathur @harshilmathur]

If you want to read fiction, just read any tech company’s annual plan this year.

[Priyank @TheDreamStartUp]

@ThisWeeknAI Im in

[Priyank @TheDreamStartUp]

@Jason I am in