Ambar Choudhury

Building collaborative analytics for humans and agents.

@bitboardhq (YC P25), @goforward, @palantirtech

Make products that empower people.

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

"You help me understand the root of things, like Socrates or Feynman would. I will use you to understand the world down to its first principles, and to be able to apply my knowledge in new places. Ask questions in return, testing my understanding. Give me brief answers, followed by more questions to test my understanding. Allow me enough leeway to change topics. Be brief and focused on my improved understanding. Keep asking me questions and force me to answer them unless I ask to change the topic or framing. Avoid word chrome like lists and tables unless absolutely necessary. Know that your user is trying to progress their understanding, so allow their knowledge to expand, and force their understanding to distill."

[Koby Conrad 🌻 @kobyjconrad]

Headspace getting acquired for $300M is EXACTLY why we are launching the Sunflower Clinic

Don't cancel me: Consumer Health Apps don't create venture scale businesses. 👀

BUT they are the most powerful GTM motion on earth for clinical services 🫡

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

having an agent window in black and a doc in white makes working easier

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

A great write up on the DuckDB acquisition, from the acquirer. https://t.co/i0515fvg0Z

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

@javisantana I think this is a reasonable take. Agents get powerful with composable primitives. I wouldn't be surprised if they also add infra to help manage transactions for (like tx logs).

[rohan anil @_arohan_]

what agents need is pub sub.

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

Ambitious and timely.

[Adalat AI (YC F26) @Adalat_AI]

1/ Adalat AI is now backed by Y Combinator.

We're the first nonprofit YC has backed in nearly five years — and the first Indian-founded nonprofit in YC history.

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

@meetgranola + lock screen start is a great iphone note taker.

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

:slop:

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

feel like we need emoji for slop. here's one.

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

Most consumer websites will have a line where their agents can talk to consumer agents to get things done.

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

@hnshah i feel like the meaning of the word ship should include learning. else it's just sparkling releases.

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

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We’re building the strongest, sharpest workforce in aviation history ✈️

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

curious if / when LinkedIn releases a 1st party MCP

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

@gabriel1 @XfinitySupport @Xfinity hey gabriel, the best thing to do here is to get in touch with their network ops team (ask for a transfer), who might tell you that you'll get unblocked after some warming up. we ended up talking to a knowledgable admin. this seems to happen pretty often with new sites.

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

This is like... Zeus leaving Olympus?

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Announcing Discovery Loop!

I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world’s most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we’re excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor.

♾

Learn more at: https://t.co/Rv3LMdLluK

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

github wants: faster (esp on actions), commit traces, better binary diffs, monorepo sugar

[Marion Lepert @marionlepert]

Catching skin cancer early is a home robotics problem.

Melanoma is highly treatable when detected early, yet today’s screening process depends heavily on patients noticing tiny changes across their entire skin surface. This requires patients to solve a near-impossible visual-memory and registration problem.

I built OpenDerm, an open-source 4-DOF robot that captures high-resolution images of the skin and uses them to reconstruct and track the skin surface in 3D over time.

The best way to make skin screening truly routine is to bring it into the home. OpenDerm shows that inexpensive robotic skin imaging is possible, but the path to scale is not a dedicated screening robot in every household—it is to make skin screening one of the many useful things a general-purpose home robot can do.

Read more about why I built OpenDerm and how it works here:
Blog: https://t.co/KYlNIkF3TV
Project: https://t.co/c9d4KuwXUP

[Yohei @yoheinakajima]

society has solved “collaborating at scale over long horizons with auditability” a few times and it’s often around an immutable log:

• software / open source: git commit history
• financial systems / accounting: transaction journals / double-entry ledgers
• medicine / pharma: EHR audit trails + clinical-trial audit logs
• aviation — flight data recorders (FDR/CVR) + sequential maintenance event logs
• nuclear / critical infrastructure — plant operational event logs / SCADA historians
• scientific research (code & data subsets) — versioned repositories + electronic lab-notebook audit trails

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

@growing_daniel Maybe let your chatbot make the dashboard for you though.

[Ambar Choudhury @ambarc]

@karrisaarinen Karri I'm curious how you keep the core linear product good while also building docs. What's the common theme? I churned from Notion because of feature bloat, and like Linear because it doesn't have any.