Saurav Sahu

I am an acquired taste | 🎤 Comedian |👨🏻‍💻 Product @CleverTap For Startups |🎓 IIT Kharagpur

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

Living in a cheap flat!

Watch full standup comedy video on YT - https://t.co/kB6QPQdgHW

#standupcomedy

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

@system_monarch CleverTap does the job for them

[Shailendra Sharma @shail2018]

आज सवेरे से मैं और मेरी बेटी “एग्जाम वॉरियर” बने हुए हैं!

सवेरे 9 से 12 तक दिल्ली-हरियाणा बॉर्डर पर IISER की परीक्षा दी।

और फ़िर दोपहर 3 से 5 के बीच यूपी-दिल्ली बॉर्डर पर CUET परीक्षा!

दोनों के बीच की दूरी थी मात्र 61 किलोमीटर!

जैसे ही 12 बजे पहली परीक्षा खत्म हुई, मेरी बेटी उसी तत्परता से भीड़ को चीरते हुए बाहर आई, जैसे हवाई जहाज़ लैंड होने पर कनेक्टिंग फ्लाइट वाले बाहर निकलते हैं!

फिर भी परीक्षा केंद्र से बाहर निकलकर, ट्रैफिक जाम से जूझते हुए, मेन रोड तक आते आते 12:55 हो गए थे!

और अभी हमें 59 किलोमीटर की दूरी तय करनी थी, जो कि उस वक़्त धरती के दूसरे छोर पर जाने जैसी लग रही थी!

गूगल नेविगेटर अगले सेंटर पर पहुँचने का समय 2:18 बता रहा था। 2:30 बजे के बाद एंट्री नहीं हो सकती थी।

ऐसे में, सड़क पर हर रेड लाइट, हर एक रुका हुआ ट्रैफिक दिल की धड़कन बढ़ा रहा था।

ख़ैर, ऊपर वाले की कृपा से हम CUET सेंटर पर 2:12 बजे पहुँच गए, और जब मेरी बेटी सेंटर के अंदर चली गई तब जा के जान में जान आई!

इस सारे घटनाक्रम के बीच मुझे मोदी जी की किताब “एग्जाम वॉरियर” की बड़ी याद आई।

इस किताब में मोदी जी ने बच्चों को टिप्स दिए हैं कि परीक्षा की तैयारी कैसे करें, परीक्षा के दौरान क्या करें, इत्यादि।

पर मोदी जी ने अपनी किताब में ये नहीं बताया, कि जब देश की दो प्रमुख परीक्षा लेने वाली संस्थाएं एक ही दिन में, मात्र चंद घंटों के अंतराल पर, शहर के दो अलग अलग छोर पर परीक्षा लें, तो उसकी तैयारी कैसे करें!!

जिस पैरेंट के पास ख़ुद का ट्रांसपोर्ट न हो, जिसे पब्लिक ट्रांसपोर्ट के ज़रिए दोनों एग्जाम सेंटर पर पहुँचना हो, वो इस सिचुएशन से कैसे डील करे, ये भी मोदी जी ने अपनी किताब में नहीं बताया है!!

यही नहीं, सालों से देश में “डिजिटल इंडिया” की हवा चल रही है, इसी साल सरकार ने "AI" पर अंतरराष्ट्रीय कांफ्रेंस भी करा ली,

पर आवेदक बच्चों के डेटा के आधार पर, आपसी कोआर्डिनेशन के ज़रिए देश की दो राष्ट्रीय संस्थाएं बिना ओवरलैप के परीक्षा की तारीख तय कर सकें, क्या इतनी टेक्नोलॉजी देश में नहीं है?

IISER Aptitude Test यानि #IAT भारत सरकार की एक संस्था करवाती है, देश की 7 प्रीमियर साइंस रिसर्च संस्थाओं के UG कोर्स में दाखिले के लिए।

इसकी परीक्षा पहले से ही 7 जून निर्धारित थी।

इस बीच @NTA_Exams , जो कि भारत सरकार का ही उपक्रम है, उसने #CUET की परीक्षा जो कि 28 मई को होनी थी, उसे बदलकर 31 मई, 6 और 7 जून को कर दिया!

इन दोनों ही संस्थाओं के पास एप्लिकेंट छात्रों का सारा डेटा मौज़ूद है!

ऐसे में अगर भारत सरकार के ये दोनों “सूरमा” आपस में बात करके एक “ओवरलैप डिटेक्ट” करने का प्रोग्राम कंप्यूटर पर चला लेते, तो NTA को 5 मिनट में पता चल जाता कि किस बच्चे का टेस्ट 7 जून को नहीं कराना है!

ऐसे बच्चों की परीक्षा 31 मई या 6 जून वाले समूह के साथ हो सकती थी!

पर नहीं, इंडिया भले डिजिटल बन जाये, पर ये डिजिटल नहीं बनेंगे!

इन्हें तो बस देश भर के बच्चों और उनके पैरेंट्स को “एग्जाम वॉरियर” बनाना है!!

ख़ैर, और कुछ हो या न हो, मोदी जी को अब “एग्जाम वॉरियर” का अगला संस्करण जल्द निकालना चाहिए,

बहुत सारे "मुद्दे" इकट्ठा हो गए हैं, मोदी जी की "टिप्स" के लिए…

[Priya Purohit @Priyaa_Purohit]

A CJP protester at Jantar Mantar said —

The people made a big mistake by electing a 4th-Pass PM.

The time has come to remove him. We don't want our children's future ruined by repeated paper leaks.

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

This man is a BJP karyakarta.

He joined the protest today, to demand Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation.

His son had been preparing for NEET for 2 years.

He had even taken a loan for his son's preparation.

Now that the paper has been cancelled, his son is under heavy stress.

He can pay back the loan, but he is deeply concerned for his son.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Starting tomorrow, Supreme court of India is on a six-week summer vacation and will be operating at just 19% of its capacity. There are 53 million cases pending in Indian courts - 93,143 of them are pending in the Supreme Court.

A judge can go on a vacation, a judiciary cannot.

[RedboxGlobal India @REDBOXINDIA]

META LAYOFFS SPARK PANIC AS STAFF RUSH TO GRAB FREE SNACKS, DRINKS & CHARGERS: EX-EMPLOYEE

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

The Indian salaried class has been methodically stripped of every single inflation hedge available to it, one budget at a time.

You tried crypto. They slapped a 30% flat tax on gains, allowed no set-off of losses, and added 1% TDS on transfers.

You tried equities. Budget 2024 raised STCG from 15% to 20%, raised LTCG from 10% to 12.5%, increased STT on F&O, and also killed indexation for most other long-term capital gains.

You thought fine, I’ll diversify some savings abroad through LRS. They put 20% TCS on remittances above 10 lakhs for investments abroad.

You tried Sovereign Gold Bonds, because surely a government-issued, government-backed gold hedge would be the one clean instrument they would not mess with. Then Budget 2026 came along and removed the capital gains exemption for secondary market buyers.

And now the final insult.

The Prime Minister has publicly asked you to avoid buying physical gold for a year in the “national interest,” because gold imports use foreign exchange.

So let me get this straight. A middle class wagie earning in depreciating rupees, watching FD rates hover around 6.5% while real life inflation keeps eating his purchasing power, has now been told:

Crypto is taxed like a vice.

Equities are more expensive to hold and exit.

Foreign diversification gets hit with TCS.

SGBs are being wound down and tax-narrowed.

Buying physical gold is now unpatriotic.

Basically, every single exit from rupee depreciation has been systematically curtailed. You are expected to hold your savings in instruments the government controls, at returns the government sets, for a currency the government is rapidly inflating away.

Does this sound like Amrit Kaal to you?

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

@ImAbhishek7_ @frido_official you got the right shoes

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

Pre-AI PM resumes contain:
“Increased, improved, led, drove revenue & metrics”

Post-AI PM resumes contain:
“Built tools, platforms, dashboards”

[Alexander Chen @alexanderchen]

You as agent: super cool Gemini demo by @FilipHavlena👤🍎🖥️ We've been experimenting with agentic interfaces at Creative Lab and this one was so fun: he turned himself into a 3d agent with spatial awareness + reasoning loop + tools (docs/emails with @GoogleWorkspace CLI). Made in @threejs. Real-time screencap ▶️

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

@usefathom Interested Max

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

@Techmeme high chance they got inspired by qwen image layered

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

At least this time people have something to sit on while waiting in line… unlike during demonetisation

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

@elevenreader Audiobooks

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 No hotel or restaurant shall add a service charge automatically or by default in the food bill.

Penalties will be imposed up to ₹50,000

- Central government.

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

@DearthOfSid congrats bhai! :)

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

@budapp deployment across stacks is good

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

"most businesses have a lot of work to do and not enough people to do it"

Most companies carry a long backlog, and AI is helping them move faster - enabling them to address both high-demand and one-off client requests efficiently. If you are aligned, you are safe.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Job seekers in the U.S. and many other nations face a tough environment. At the same time, fears of AI-caused job loss have — so far — been overblown. However, the demand for AI skills is starting to cause shifts in the job market. I’d like to share what I’m seeing on the ground.

First, many tech companies have laid off workers over the past year. While some CEOs cited AI as the reason — that AI is doing the work, so people are no longer needed — the reality is AI just doesn’t work that well yet. Many of the layoffs have been corrections for overhiring during the pandemic or general cost-cutting and reorganization that occasionally happened even before modern AI. Outside of a handful of roles, few layoffs have resulted from jobs being automated by AI.
Granted, this may grow in the future. People who are currently in some professions that are highly exposed to AI automation, such as call-center operators, translators, and voice actors, are likely to struggle to find jobs and/or see declining salaries. But widespread job losses have been overhyped.

Instead, a common refrain applies: AI won’t replace workers, but workers who use AI will replace workers who don’t. For instance, because AI coding tools make developers much more efficient, developers who know how to use them are increasingly in-demand. (If you want to be one of these people, please take our short courses on Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Agentic Skills!)

So AI is leading to job losses, but in a subtle way. Some businesses are letting go of employees who are not adapting to AI and replacing them with people who are. This trend is already obvious in software development. Further, in many startups’ hiring patterns, I am seeing early signs of this type of personnel replacement in roles that traditionally are considered non-technical. Marketers, recruiters, and analysts who know how to code with AI are more productive than those who don’t, so some businesses are slowly parting ways with employees that aren’t able to adapt. I expect this will accelerate.

At the same time, when companies build new teams that are AI native, sometimes the new teams are smaller than the ones they replace. AI makes individuals more effective, and this makes it possible to shrink team sizes. For example, as AI has made building software easier, the bottleneck is shifting to deciding what to build — this is the Product Management (PM) bottleneck. A project that used to be assigned to 8 engineers and 1 PM might now be assigned to 2 engineers and 1 PM, or perhaps even to a single person with a mix of engineering and product skills.

The good news for employees is that most businesses have a lot of work to do and not enough people to do it. People with the right AI skills are often given opportunities to step up and do more, and maybe tackle the long backlog of ideas that couldn’t be executed before AI made the work go more quickly. I’m seeing many employees in many businesses step up to build new things that help their business. Opportunities abound!

I know these changes are stressful. My heart goes out to every family that has been affected by a layoff, to every job seeker struggling to find the role they want, and to the far larger number of people who are worried about their future job prospects. Fortunately, there’s still time to learn and position yourself well for where the job market is going. When it comes to AI, the vast majority of people, technical or nontechnical, are at the starting line, or they were recently. So this remains a great time to keep learning and keep building, and the opportunities for those who do are numerous!

[Original text; https://t.co/zbIhZHfCC0 ]

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

@matt_elevenlabs 11B

[Saurav Sahu @chilli_cha_cha]

@drriteshmalik mutton biryani ka price kum karwa dijiye!