Abhishek

Building @ Ather Energy

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

I just came off of a flight from San Francisco to New York.

Midway through the flight one of the engines started to fail due some unknown technical issues.

The pilot was preparing us for an emergency landing in Gary, Indiana.

I pulled out my maxed out MacBook Pro M4, fired up Claude Code, connected to Opus 4.5, and instructed it to sniff out the ports on the internal airplane communication network.

In less than a minute it had full access to all the critical systems.

I instructed it to diagnose the problem with the engine and find a fix.

It reasoned for a few minutes, coded a simple firmware patch update for the engine, and uploaded it to the airplane mainframe.

Before too long the captain was announcing that all the engine issues have been resolved and we will continue on our journey.

We are definitely in the hard takeoff. Like literally.

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

Just came to the Zomato office and guys, you won't believe what I saw on the office floor.... or should I say office ceiling?

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

The information overload with AI is real. Everyone shares a copy of meeting notes after the calls, because everyone has an "AI assistant" making notes of the meeting. Even though everyone uses the same tool, everyone's notes are slightly different from each other.
Some people even add their own self-written notes + the AI note taking apps notes, and cook them together in yet another LLM and produce elaborate bullet points.

The meetings notes are mostly too verbose, because AI doesn't know how to write short, crisp bullets, which need not be grammatically correct. In way, AI knows how to "summarise", but not how to "take notes". Since all these notes are too verbose, people don't really read them, they ask yet another AI to further "summarise". In this whole journey, some actual key information gets lost. People are a lot less focussed in the meeting too now, given that they know their "AI assistant" is making notes anyway. They are half distracted, doing some other work parallelly during the meeting.

From roadmaps to technical docs to RFCs to performance reviews - AI has made it so much easier to ̶w̶r̶i̶t̶e̶ generate them, that there are just way more of them now. Instead of just writing up a POC - people throw a 6-pager RFC or tech-spec at you first. All the conventional wisdom says "great engineers write great architecture docs" and "great managers write great vision docs" - so now that ̶w̶r̶i̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ generating them is easier, everyone's writing tons of them. All career-guidance and professional how-to books advice you to "write more" to progress further in your career, because in the older world (Amazon meeting agenda 1-pagers, Stripe press releases), writing more would actually train you more to write more concise and succinct documents, and develop the muscle to coalesce opinions via the written word. Simply generating more docs via LLMs do not actually make you better at that. On the contrary, now that you generate more noise with too many documents, no one knows which ones are more important, and unable to keep up, start ignoring your ̶w̶r̶i̶t̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ generations.

The wiki has a "summarise with AI" button, the Zoom call has a "summarise with AI" button. The Google Doc has a "rewrite with AI" button. Everyone who is a "human in the chain" is turning out to be a glorified network packet switcher between different LLM models. Generate text, send to someone, who summarises it using another LLM, without reading it much (either the original, or the summary), and forwards it, to someone, who rewrites it again using AI and turns it into a presentation, which then is used in a meeting, which gets summarised using AI, and saved in the wiki.

There are more meetings now, because more people have the ability to write 'meeting agendas'. There are more 'stakeholders' now, because anyone can write a cursory 'remark' on your documents using the AI tool. There are bigger committees to review performance now, because all packets have started to look and read more or less the same, and harder to calibrate.

The internal AI tooling team's KPIs have been through the roof. They just got fresh budget to hire PhDs and purchase a GPU cluster to fine-tune yet another model only on "internal data", which increasingly is itself not human-generated content anymore.

Welcome to the post-genAI world. And ofcourse, you can use Grok3 to tl;dr-ify this post if it is too long to read (I am sure it is).

[Zainab Bawa @zainabbawa]

.@rootconf blast from the past - some older pics; some older friendships. @anantshri @realmeson10 @chandangowda_in @yudocaa @booleanbalaji @shakthimaan

[Mukul Dekhane @dekhane_mukul]

I had to eat the pakodas to read the entire article...

😁😜😁😜

[HTC @htc]

2024.6.12
Coming soon
#ALLFORU #HTC

[Abhishek @booleanbalaji]

Wildest story in a while!

[Ather Energy @atherenergy]

Built for those who feel at home in the fast lane.

Built for thrills.

Ather 450, #TheBikeOfScooters.

#Ather #Ather450X #Ather450Apex

[anti pigeon @aluminiummaiden]

I'm in the US and everyone thinks I want to do touristy stuff... NO. I just want to see what a Costco is and sit inside a car while it goes through those wash machines

[Abhishek @booleanbalaji]

RT @tarunsmehta: Excited to have Shri Amitabh Kant ji, India's G20 Sherpa, as our special guest for the upcoming second edition of Ather Co…

[Ather Energy @atherenergy]

A family scooter with a seat that has space for everyone. Ather Rizta, unveiling on 6th April.

Pre-book it on https://t.co/oQmW3ZDQ3l

#AtherRizta #FamilyScooter #SabseBadaSeat

[Swiss @BlxckSwiss_]

mad clutch control

[Abhishek @booleanbalaji]

@mufasaYC @championswimmer @thetaskapp Did you both meet through the visions pro

[Ather Energy @atherenergy]

#AtherCommunityDay2024 is back on April 6 ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Keep an eye on your inbox, invites dropping soon ✉️

#AtherCommunity #NewLaunch #Ather

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

"Every speech delivered by the Führer is historical...as is the official opening of a new motorway, and every single road, and every single section of every single road, is officially inaugurated..."

Viktor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich

[naren.io @nareni0]

I don’t know whats the confusion here. Bi-weekly means twice in a week if I need something from you. Once in two weeks if you need something from me.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Advantage of having a small crocodile

[Tarun Mehta @tarunsmehta]

And it's here!

Tomorrow, we're unveiling our 10-year anniversary special edition scooter, the 450 Apex - the pinnacle of the 450 platform.

Don't miss out, set a reminder for the #ather450apex livestream at 12 noon: https://t.co/LVJDtkAp0s"

#10Yearsinthemaking #ApexofAther