Deepak Sarda

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[Deepak Sarda @antrix]

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[Deepak Sarda @antrix]

@HDFCBank_Cares @HDFC_Bank I already did all this last time. you can check the DMs. And the previous SR was closed without much help.

[Deepak Sarda @antrix]

So I did contact @HDFCBank_Cares and gave them details. Which resulted in a new "service request" 5 days ago. I replied to that email today asking for an update & got this bounce notification..

I can't find a better encapsulation of this situation!

`care@hdfcbank not found`!!

[HDFC Bank Cares @HDFCBank_Cares]

@antrix Hi Deppak, we'll certainly look into this for you. Please DM us your registered contact details for further assistance. -Anay, Service Manager https://t.co/taKbFILDZD

Please note that HDFC Bank will only respond from either @HDFCBank_Cares or @HDFC_Bank, each marked with a

[Deepak Sarda @antrix]

@HDFCBank_Cares @HDFC_Bank The problem with this whole @HDFC_Bank #KYC process is that there is no clear reason provided for rejection. No info that can be used to provide HDFC what it needs. See screenshot. And neither of the next steps work. Even contacting branch is useless.

[Deepak Sarda @antrix]

@HDFCBank_Cares Another update in this ongoing #KYC saga.
- The officer messaged me saying that physical forms are not being accepted. Can I fill online once again.
- I filled online once again.
- The KYC was rejected once again.
I've lost count of attempts now.
@HDFC_Bank @HDFCBank_Cares

[Deepak Sarda @antrix]

Hmm.. 2nd or 3rd in every one of these? Search Ads is the only one they lead in?

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Google is fighting every final boss at once:

OpenAI & Anthropic in models, Nvidia in chips, AWS & Microsoft in cloud, Meta in ads, Tesla in self-driving, Apple in phones and OS.

At $4.6T, it feels weirdly undervalued.

[Simon Willison @simonw]

I'm suspicious of that that whole story about Uber blowing their AI budget and being disappointed in the results - I dug into it and it appears to have been built on very shaky foundations

[Deepak Sarda @antrix]

Sonar's pricing math is quite strange.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.

So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have to happen to get sustainable results from agents.

“Look I made this awesome product prototype”. Yes but you didn’t have to review the code before it went into production and fix a bunch of issues.

“Look I generated a contract”. Yes but you didn’t verify all the terms before it goes out to the counterparty and didn’t have to wire up all the past contracts to work with.

The best thing you can do as a CEO is to use AI a *ton* to figure out the real implications of agents in the enterprise, and come out the other side with an appreciation for both the upside and the real work that goes into them.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[Deepak Sarda @antrix]

Why must everything be a binary choice? In this case, it was always about having both. And more! It was even called a test pyramid!

[Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct]

end-to-end testing > unit tests, in the vibecoding era.

A massive, almost entirely agent-coded refactor passed all unit and pre-merge tests but broke a critical feature.

It was only caught due to my own excessive paranoia making me run end-to-end tests before the prod deploy.

[Deepak Sarda @antrix]

3 failed attempts at reKYC with @HDFC_Bank. 1 online and 2 over email. Online failed with no reason provided. Email guy stopped responding.

Of the 5 days I'll be in India on my next trip, ~0.5 to 2 days will be spent dealing with this. That's 10%-40% of my trip.

What a mess!

[Deepak Sarda @antrix]

What's the point of TextEdit app? It's not good at anything.

[Toby Pohlen @TobyPhln]

I'm back in Austin three years after spending my first day at @xai here. On the flight I thought about all the decisions I made during that time - many of which were actually poor. I compiled a selection below.

[Historywali @historywali]

Eat all mangoes. Eat every mango you can. The small, juicy, fibrous, nameless ones you pluck off that old tree down the gully. The planted-a-Dussheri-seed-but-never-grafted Dussheri-ish mango from your masi’s garden in Bhopal.
Blushing Sindhuras. Sweet Kesars. Yes eat as many of those beautiful Alphonsos from Devgad packed carefully in cardboard boxes as you can. But also eat Pairi, Neelam, Ratna. And Sindu - a cross between the Ratna & the Alphonso which is slowly gaining more ground because climate change has wreaked havoc on the finicky Alphonso - ask farmers, yields have been down for a few years now, talk to farmers.

Eat with the season.
Eat the early mangoes from the south - Mankurad, Badami, Banganapalli, Imam Pasad in late April-May.
Eat your middle-India mangoes - Kesar, Bombay Green, and also Malgova and Mallika which are late season bloomers from the south, and your Himsagar, Gulabkhaas, beauties from Malda and Murshidabad - try to lay your hands on a Champa, Saranga, or Kohitoor in May-June!
And go both hands in, into piles of Amrapali, Chausa, Malihabadi Dussheris, Langdas in July.

This is just the tip of the mango iceberg, there are so many more loved & delicious varieties - India has near 1,500 varieties of mangoes.
Why would you eat just one? Of course have your favourites but also look at our beautiful biodiversity - please cherish it! Eat widely. Eat greedily. Eat because these mangoes are so delicious. Eat in RESISTANCE TO LOSS, eat like these mangoes might disappear because some of them already are!

[Patrick McCarthy @patrickmcc_rthy]

@TheStalwart i think this is the reason they’re algorithmically boosting vagueposting

[David Cramer @zeeg]

Alright Anthropic, OpenAI:

I need APIs that give me usage data. Granular. Per user.

I need this in the same way its provided by every other company for all of time.

What I dont want: "heres a $100,000 line vague line item of token spend".

[Deepak Sarda @antrix]

Unlocked a time capsule

[Nitin Pai @acorn]

This is so sad. I wonder how much money brand consultants make for destroying a very distinctive brand identity and changing it to something entirely undistinctive.