Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳

Helping businesses become AI-ready - skilled immigrants build a life in the UK -
Ex-@meta

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

I still can't believe this ... but I'm co-hosting TEDxWibsey, a TEDx event in Bradford on 19th September.

The whole journey has been a bit of a doozy so far, from looking for the venue, to marketing, to helping interview speakers ... all along with a team I couldn't have done this all without!

Wibsey is one of Bradford's oldest communities, and the event is about proving that ideas are worth spreading ™️ in places small towns just as anywhere else. Local ideas and lived experiences define the future we build together.

I've been organising tech events in the UK for over 4 years. Running meetups monthly in Manchester and London taught me that the best moments happen between the talks - in the hallway track. Someone connects an idea from stage to something they're already building.

Speaking and hosting are also different skills. A speaker delivers one idea well. A host makes every idea in the room lands well and and ensure that a room full of people are not amongst strangers 🫂.

This will be my first time co-hosting a TEDx, after years of speaking at and organising conferences. Hope to see you there 👋

📅 Saturday, 19th September 2026
📍 Bradford Art Centre

[Extraltodeus @Extraltodeus]

I came to realize people liked the french #slopcore without having the lyrics 😅 sorry!
So here is a version with english subtitles!

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

Thank you Birmingham TechWM and DevOps Society for having me! My talk was on building Agent-Ready APIs 🤖.

Kept the ideas simple and to the core - build a good foundation for your APIs so the easy parts can be automated away. Focus on the hard parts to do them better.

The audience was super engaged, and had amazing questions which I couldn't expect.

Had an workshop on Kubernetes - and a dinner with Steve Wade afterwards. Looking forward to his workshop in November.

Thank you and hope to see you in a month! 👋

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@rudrank Careful with anti-gravity bro. They ban accounts even when automated in headless mode

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@GeorgeJeffersn They cloned Artie?!

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@nedwize Reinventing Steganography from first principles

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@sunnykgupta @reliancejio @jiotvplus @OfficialJioTV Amazing bhau! Congrats!

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@skyjoshii I used to think this too. But think of the inflation ... It hits the drivers too.

That's why we had so many strikes no 😅

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@nedwize 4ty?

[向阳乔木 @vista8]

大聪明的群里看到的，太形象了。

GPT 6.1 sol 😁

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@rudraxx13 No it doesn't :(

We only got it for 6.1 Sol

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

opus 5.5 has completely spoiled me. I can't bear using anything below 6.1 sol - high now in Codex.

Astra doesn't even get the new 500k context window. Pls fix @thsottiaux

[Vinay Aravind @vinayaravind]

The first rule of this government's response to any crisis unfolding in our great country, is to lash out at the people who exposed the crisis in the most bitter and spiteful way. They're like children, except with far too much power and responsibility.

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@noahfromgoa Which device/app is that?

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@madebypuru Bro it's bait. The guy himself made that site 😂

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@aniketmaurya Amazing bro!

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@notdvb Lmfao amazing bait

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@serious_mehta Farming is such a hard job though

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@AIGryffindor @uctodaynews True

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

Something unexpected happened in April - after my panel talk at DTX Manchester on AI Security. @uctodaynews asked me how I've brought AI into organisations that resist change in the past.

Having done this once or twice now, my answer is simple: hand it to people who aren't engineers.

Marketers, legal and especially sales teams can get real work out of Claude Code or OpenAI Codex. Any job which requires a lot of manual search or work that involves drudgery can be sped up using these tools. The humans are only required to collate data and make decisions.

Two more points from my chat with Alex Cole:
👉 Trust your teams first. If every team has to fight for access, an agent that can change the auth code or a database turns that friction into open conflict.
👉 Find the people already excited about these tools and get them running workshops and internal communities, so the excitement spreads within the team.

Opening up access only works when the systems behind it are safe for agents to use. That's my keynote this Friday at Birmingham Tech Week 🎤

Your API Is Not Agent-Ready Yet, 10:30am on Friday 23 October at Birmingham Tech Week's Engineering & Developer Conference, ICC Birmingham. I'll share what I learned building agent-ready APIs and MCPs, including why permissions have to be enforced by the server and never left to the agent.

Come say hi 👋

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

@shivamxjha Damn. I'm assuming you didn't get it