Amit Bhatiani

Updating my priors.

[Amit Bhatiani @bhatiani]

@justinskycak Hi Justin, thinking about building a small Eurisko type effort in India. Thank you for all the inspiration. Would love some advice!

[Bloom @bloom_hotels]

Bloom ranks in Top 10 Fastest Growing Indian Companies 2026 by TIME Magazine.

[Amit Bhatiani @bhatiani]

@lucasbagnocvaz So damn good. Probably been true for longer than we think but certainly true today. Picking is indeed everything.

[Amit Bhatiani @bhatiani]

@ImSh4yy @steipete Same.

[Amit Bhatiani @bhatiani]

@jdh @catehall In the future, if you could pass your only 100x after all this dilution dealflow to us, we'd appreciate it.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[Amit Bhatiani @bhatiani]

@claudeai Claude code really is the best of times and the worst of times. After 3 intense weeks of usage, i can say two things: it will one day be amazing. It's a disaster today.

[Amit Bhatiani @bhatiani]

@henrythe9ths AI guide

[Henry Shi @henrythe9ths]

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really.

I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI.

But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone.

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- You don’t need months (or years) to catch up.
- You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience.
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It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant:
- ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old.
- Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication.

The biggest secret?
Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine).

I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start.

I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were:
- Curated list of only the most important papers
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(ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

[Amit Bhatiani @bhatiani]

@Gavekal Just so I understand this correctly. China is making great progress but doesn't have to be visible in equities and indeed hasnt been. Only philistines are stock obsessed. Buy Chinese equities.

[Amit Bhatiani @bhatiani]

Legendary taste in mathematicians.

[Simons Foundation @SimonsFdn]

It is with great sadness that the Simons Foundation announces the death of its co-founder and chair emeritus, James Harris Simons. Jim was an award-winning mathematician, a legendary investor and a generous philanthropist. https://t.co/w48DhauUVj

[François Chollet @fchollet]

My view of the capabilities of LLMs is probably far below that of the median tech industry person. And yet, the more time passes the more I realize my 2023 views were actually overestimating their future potential and current usefulness.

Parallel to self-driving: circa 2016-2017 my view on the timeline for full-scale self-driving deployment was much more pessimistic than most people in the industry -- I was envisioning ~2023, when everyone else targeted 2020 or earlier. And yet, as time passed I started realizing that I was being grossly overoptimistic.

[valerie szybala. @vszyb]

I’d just like everyone to know that @united has lost track of my bag and is lying about it. My apple AirTag shows that it has been sitting in a residential apartment complex for over a day. Out back by the dumpsters, I have found other emptied United Airlines bags.

[Reconsidering Cinema @coenesqued2]

Orson Welles describes his single greatest asset before filming Citizen Kane: Ignorance.

[Norbert Lou @NorbertLou]

I loved this Ted Weschler interview https://t.co/ZP9yZLJgmJ

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

"ESG is just a hate factory. It’s a factory for naming enemies, and we should not be allowing them to do that. When you think ESG, you should be thinking Chinese Communist Party."--Peter Thiel

[Truffl @gotruffl]

Truffl #1: PayTM

PayTM is worth 0. That's right, 0 Rs / share. Nice round number.

Why 0 you ask?

0 is what happens when no business model meets no risk appetite.

0 it what happens when management doesn't know what business it's in. (1/17)

[Truffl @gotruffl]

(1/11) Truffl #2: Cholamandalam Finance

For #2, we decided to go to the other end from #1!

Exactly the opposite end of the spectrum from VSS stands SV.

SV (Subbiah Vellayan) is the (old/new) Chairman of Chola.

And, we know the market has built a halo around SV. 😉

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

SO GOOD.

Cogent clear thinking on “Web3” and what promoters of a purely distributed FUTURE get wrong by misunderstanding the HISTORY of why we have had centralized and distributed systems

From @signalapp creator @moxie
https://t.co/D6RBlXJFTS

[David Perell @david_perell]

Agency is the most important thing to teach.

A student who trusts their potential, loves to learn, and knows how to follow through on a vision of their own is better off than just about any submissive, straight-A rule-follower.