Karthik Ramakrishnan

Building @ArmillaAI, entrepreneur, dad, wannabe chef. Formerly @element_ai @deloitte, @betaworks

[Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki]

Marching towards Self Driving Organizations

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

Centre Starts 'Save Fuel' Drive

The Prime Minister’s call is to encourage citizens to conserve energy... Should the opposition unite in a time of crisis? Should the nation rally as one? Yes!: @Suhelseth

Today, Russia is supplying both oil and LPG. Why are we denying it? Under what pressure?: @attorneybharti

@TheNewshour | @NavikaKumar

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@Jason Im in

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X just added coding maxxing to the portfolio through a buy option. Did not see that coming. 🤯

“Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.”

That’s a sweet deal for cursor and the most expensive PoC ever.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.

The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models.

Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.

[Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki]

Opus 4.7 is genuinely very good. A marked improvement in reasoning and thoroughness. And dare I say, lower sycophancy?

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Oh man, that’s sad. And what a phenomenal comeback in the 2000s as well! Loved her restaurant too…

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

One of my favorite singers passed at 92

Her stats are insane:
Started performing at 10 years old and performed til the very end, recorded a song every 2.5 days on average, for 80+ years!

So many bangers.

RIP
Brimful of Asha forever.

[Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki]

Somethings up with FSD today. Tentative and nervous like a newbie driver. What’s up with the new update?

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@ChrisJBakke The postmortem of this decade will be an epic read.

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There it is.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability.

The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.

But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along.

So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions.

TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

[Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki]

@om_patel5 🤔I’m seeing the reverse. Claude output quality has gone up - outputs more thought out and structured. Definitely “down and unavailable” at times - platform can’t keep up w demand.

[Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki]

Seeing mega improvements in quality and usable outputs from Claude over the couple weeks, over ChatGPT. Consistently the Claude answers are more thoughtful, nuanced, etc.

Def helps when showing what ChatGPT produced to get a little competition going. Adversarial prompting (of sorts) works!

[Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki]

My sown without my Openclaw setup is reaching $100/day already - and I’m just getting started. Been working on a method for token and model use efficiency - it’s tough. But a big problem to solve.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Magical OpenClaw experiences that use frontier models cost $300-1,000/day today, heading to $10,000/day and more. The future shape of the entire technology industry will be how to drive that to $20/month.

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@balajis Ha! An “SF that doesn’t suck”. Should stop by and check it out on my next trip.

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@balajis Is this the new ycombinator?

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Openclaw crashes are debilitating now. Need more stable setup and a monitor to detect crashing. Suggestions?

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@curious_vii @claudeai @ChatGPTapp @OpenAI Interesting. Will try this.

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For all the hype on @claudeai, it still can’t follow design guidelines to build a deck. We need to calm down until it can - and they should fix it before launching a bevy of half baked capabilities, like interactive charts.

But, it is way better at it than @ChatGPTapp @OpenAI

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I got my wish.

https://t.co/lv53Daa8hS

[Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki]

There needs to be a way to download and port the “memory” these AI assistants build about you.

I love that ChatGPT has context from our past conversations. But switching to Claude or Grok feels like starting from zero every time.

The lock-in isn’t the model. It’s the accumulated context.

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI @grok please make memory portable.

[Karthik Ramakrishnan @_kramki]

@ChrisJBakke Damn straight.