Used to work in sales. The sheer amount of pre and post sales work was brutal and took away the time and we have to clockin 3 hours on call in a 9 hour day. Claude for sales is so easy that sales is now just sales. Back to pre saas days. It handles everything
Working in a second generation lala company, I can say that sometimes promoters are fine but the loyal bootlickers who have been there for many years are the biggest headaches
Only in India, you need permission to leave at the right time, forget about leaving early.
Only in India, you need to call the reporting manager to ask for a leave.
Only in India, your salary will be deducted for a minute late.
Ask the people who have worked for Lala Companies. These guys want Meta/Google-level engineers for 3-3.5 LPA. Indian Companies love to underpay workers. Just to make a little extra profit.
Remember folks, profits are stolen wages.
Genuine Question.
If IMPS & NEFT, both are free & NEFT takes 3-4 hrs to credit & IMPS is instant, why do people even use NEFT & Why doesn't bank remove NEFT Option ??
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:
Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:
Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:
Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:
Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!
In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
there must be a lot of people for whom AI chatbots are the only voice in their lives saying "I believe in you", giving encouragement, giving them psychological permission to try
Unchecked roadside encroachments selling food with cockroach excrements and non recycled palm oil which forces you to walk in road filled with potholes where you slip when a lorry with no skirts go over your head and your brain is splashed in mount road
๐จ๐จTNโs Men Are Dying Too Young And The Data Needs Attention
Tamil Nadu recorded 4.02 lakh male deaths vs 2.91 lakh female deaths in 2025, a gap of 1.10 lakh deaths.
The most worrying part: 86% of this gap came from people aged 15โ64, the years when people are working, raising families and supporting ageing parents.
The age-wise gap is striking:
โข 15โ24: 9,167 men vs 4,461 women
โข 25โ34: 17,135 vs 6,177
โข 35โ44: 31,585 vs 11,406
โข 45โ54: 54,743 vs 26,269
โข 55โ64: 81,840 vs 51,365
Officials cite road crashes, suicide, tobacco/alcohol use and poorly detected heart, kidney and metabolic diseases among the concerns.
There is also a major data gap: only 41% of registered deaths were medically certified in 2025.
The comparison with Sweden is particularly interesting. Sweden recorded almost equal male and female deaths in 2025 โ around 46,000 each. But the key difference is when people die: only about 10% of deaths in Sweden occur before 65, compared with 42% in Tamil Nadu.
This is more than a health statistic. Preventing premature deaths among working-age men is also about protecting families, children and household economic security.