Charoor/ai (e/acc)

Building - Builder first AI community

AI @ Salesforce · PyTorch & Kernel Lover · ex-Microsoft, ex-Nvidia

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

I've been in the Bay Area for a while, and honestly, the AI meetup scene is broken.

It’s always the same: sponsored speakers, drawn-out talks, veiled product pitches, and forced networking. Very little actual dev talk.

I just wanted a place to discuss the latest developments and argue about random AI viewpoints with people who actually ship.

So I started my own: The Kernel Dev.
A builder-first AI community in the Bay Area.

Small. Curated. IRL Meetups. Active Discord

If you're just "interested in AI"—this isn't for you.
If you're actively building—you'll fit right in.

Our first event, Touch Grass and Build, is coming soon.

If this resonates, join us here: https://t.co/qJemfy0hU6

[Daniel Gross @danielgross]

We're launching a $100,000 challenge to see who can make Muse Spark run fastest: https://t.co/oItArGroDn

[Francois de Fitte @francoisdefitte]

made a map of Bay Area cafes where you’ve got the best shot at meeting VCs (and maybe raising your next round)

check it out: https://t.co/D947AxOhty

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@pramanyaguda @daytonaio Need one for model training, been paying aws all my monies

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@joshuacirjak @daytonaio @ivanburazin How do I buy one from y'all

[AJ Asver @_aj]

AGENT SWARMS ARE HERE
*To accelerate your business

Today we're launching Agent Swarms @grepdotai to accelerate your business by tackling the backlogs your team can't keep up with.

Swarms are teams of agents that work together to automate a task queue in parallel.

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@amypretzel Gosh it looks so much better

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@gbrainio Isn't this the point of qm?

[Yichi Zhang @YichiZ03]

One year into AI infra, I wrote up my full timeline from big tech SWE to an AI infra startup: my full learning, SGLang contributions, and reflections on the job.

Hope it helps others on a similar path. Questions welcome! https://t.co/uStz3QaDqA

[Alan Wells @alanwells]

Just spent the last 7 days on the front lines of the vulnpocalypse fending off an active cyber attack on one of our products.

Some thoughts:

- Software factories are going to be required equipment for everyone. There’s just no way to keep up with the pace of highly automated adversaries without one.

- We were lucky because we had spent the last few months getting our software factory running well. It is nice to have for product development but proved to be absolutely essential this week.

- At the minimum you need to have a coding server in the cloud pre-provisioned with read only access to all your logs and all the services you depend on for observability. With that in place you are a prompt away from reasonably good situational awareness, ongoing monitoring with loops, and ability for coding agents to validate fixes against your actual, observed attack patterns.

- Shared coding server also unlocks multiplayer incident response where everyone can see every session and jump in as needed. Sharing session links that can be forked is much higher bandwidth than re-explaining things.

- You don’t need to be Ramp/Stripe/Uber scale to have a working software factory in the cloud. We are a team of 3. Ours is built with an @opencode server (thanks @thdxr!), a forked version of compound engineering optimized for automated workflows (thanks @kieranklaassen!) and a multiplayer agent in slack that handles crons (we have our own harness but pick your favorite here).

- To get our software factory up and running well, we had to stop all new product development for ~6 weeks and just focus on getting the validation systems working that enabled us to reliably shipping PR without human code review. This felt very painful in the moment but was totally worth the eventual speedup in velocity.

- KYC for @AnthropicAI & @OpenAI cyber programs is now easy and quick (at least for defensive access), but a day felt like a lifetime this week. Submit your app now before you really need it.

- Getting Mythos access unlocked a deeper level of analysis that helped us shift from reactive mitigation to proactive patching. Wish we had done this a few weeks earlier. Get started now!

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@joshuacirjak I want in!

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@ellen_in_sf It's not free to work tho is it?

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@prthgo Ask it to run an adversarial analysis after it's done and if it really requires your intervention

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

Litmus test for quality startup employees:
How do you feel about WFH.

Anyone who likes it has better things to do than work.

Anyone who hates it is locked in.

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@jessicatshen Basically just mog

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@jiratickets Yo, count me in dawg

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@signulll I guess a wallet is insurance against tech.

I have 1 physical card a pic of my family and 20$

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@weswinder It's hyper slop

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

It's possible that both lines of thought are correct.

And it's up to you to pick the side that gives you the most peace?

I can see both sides, yet I try to pick my friends just by people who bring value to my life.

I need friends who are more ambitious and some who are just kind

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@0interestrates Random people?!

[Charoor/ai (e/acc) @charoori_ai]

@adambcohen93 4. Host your own event that's not bs and infuriating marketing