After 15 months of building…
My first SaaS Uptimebeats got acquired 🎉
• First dollar on the internet
• ~$600 revenue
• Sold for $4,750
Small exit. But Learned lots of big lessons.
On to the next 🚀
This week has been chaotic
- Passed CKA, CKAD, and CKS
- Broke my hand, so I'm in a plaster cast for few weeks
- Fell sick and cancelled all my plans
Overall, my career is going good. Everything else, not so much.
Mugging up & even exam fetish aren't that big of an issue
Every metric can be and will be gamed. Providing opportunities to more people is the way to go. Elites will always find a way. State should care about "others"
All of this needs investment which is scarce in poor country
india keeps rewarding mugging up PCM and then wonders where the hackers went.
JEE is not computer science. GATE is not cybersecurity. rank is not competence.
our examination fetish is killing technical talent:
https://t.co/JEYRJaetEi
Bhai Chandra sahab ke ₹22,000 crores maaf nahi karte to India mein UPI agle 20 saal tak free chal jaata by government’s number of ₹8,000 crores subsidy.
Also NPCI - which runs UPI has ₹6,119 hard cash on its balance sheet and pre tax operating profit of ₹1,900 crores. NPCI apne cash pe and profits par zindagi bhar UPI free chala sakti hai. Government ka kuchh lena dena hi nahi hai. Government earned ₹1,000 crores tax from NPCI last year.
@GergelyOrosz Maybe personal preference but I like teams more than slack. It feels confusing and complicated to follow conversation in slack. This seems more of cultural and personal preference issue.
For me most interesting days will be 6-12 months after IPOs of these companies.
If current path really goes to AGI these companies should not exist.
If these companies keep exisiting are we really sure we got AGI.
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks.
Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.
Today I solved a bug without using AI.
Spent 30 seconds debugging what Claude would’ve spent 30 minutes explaining in increasingly confident paragraphs.
Feeling ashamed of my primitive behavior.
@wangbin579 For non-chinese last sentence is exactly opposite. Chinese feels like endless words to memorize. Even while learning English as non native you don't really focus lot on memorizing words but on grammar.
@AbhinavXJ I am user from 2024, their pricing model is similar to webtoons.
But feels like they might loose against flood of ai generated chinese short dramas. Audience is similar.
https://t.co/2IM2hEzhjg
@sparshselim Indians don't really accept bad state of their cities it's quite evident. Generally there is big mismatch between expectations and current capacity.
Tried new astra models. It's failing in doing simple copy files from one repo to another and modify them as per current context. Which opus 5 does without any errors.
I read reverend insanity time to time because it's quite long and some parts get boring if you read for long time.
I want to read something similar but honestly no other story has Fang guan like character who you can trust 😅