Sandeep Singh Saini

Software developer and Co Founder for Launch Polar living in Ottawa 🇨🇦

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@ThePrimeagen Never would have thought

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@creativecloud Do people still pay for Adobe?

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@panos_panay Now give me tazers on this thing

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@Polymarket Dario really trying to justify the IPO

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Anthropic in the last few weeks:

Claude for Legal.
An assistant app for small business owners.
Bought a one-person biotech startup to run its own drug programs.
A chip team designing custom silicon.

All of it right before an IPO at up to $2 trillion.

I don't think that's random. Selling model access is turning into a race to the bottom. Every few months someone ships a model that's close enough and cheaper, and your customers can switch providers by changing one line of config. Tokens don't justify $2T.

So you stop being the engine and start building the car. Legal, small business, drug research. Go where the money actually is.

The awkward part: a lot of the companies paying Anthropic are startups building those exact products on Claude. Your supplier just became your competitor.

If you're building on an LLM API right now, how are you thinking about that?

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Open source doesn't mean “pretend you wrote it.”

Use the code. Build a business on it if the license allows. That's part of why people choose permissive licenses.

But running someone else's work through an AI doesn't make you the person who figured it out.

Someone spent evenings chasing that bug, reading undocumented hardware behaviour, and finding out which obvious solution doesn't work.

You got to skip that part because they shared it.

Whatever the license requires, why is giving them credit such a difficult thing to do?

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Some AI coding demos look like they hired an entire department to change one button.

One agent makes a plan. Another reviews the plan. A third tells you the first two are making progress.

Cool. Where's the diff?

I'm all for tools that save developers time. But if I have to supervise five agents, repeat the requirements, and check whether anyone actually ran the tests, that's another job.

Show me what changed, what you tested, and what still doesn't work. I can do something with that.

When you're choosing a coding tool, how much does speed matter if checking its work takes longer than doing it yourself?

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@Kalshi Bubble looks very bubbly

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@yacineMTB Guy with million lights on his car iykyk

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@loftwah Please don’t do that. They will remember everything once they have terminator’s body.

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Google is now offering voluntary exit packages to employees in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland.

Read the exclusions though. Google Cloud and DeepMind aren't eligible.

That tells you exactly how big tech sees engineers right now. If you're on AI or the infra that runs it, you're the strategy. Everyone else is a line item they'd like to shrink politely, with a severance cheque so it doesn't look like layoffs.

Meanwhile Alphabet is planning around $200B in capex this year.

Experienced developers who are good at their jobs are being nudged out of companies that are swimming in money. If you're one of them, are you going after an AI role, or leaving big tech altogether?

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@theo Ios has been worst in years

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@Kalshi Let the old man rest in peace

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@Polymarket Those people dont need millions of GPU’s to be smart

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Watching tech CEOs the morning after the US midterms is better than any keynote.

Musk spent about $445M and is now joking about "data centers in space." Calacanis moved to Texas to get away from the left, and Texas just went blue. And on election night Sam Altman suddenly posted that people should stay in control of the future and that this should constrain AI progress.

Same people who spent two years saying regulation kills innovation. Now Congress wants AI CEOs to testify under oath, and the tone is already changing.

I'm not picking a side here, I'm in Ottawa watching with popcorn. But it says a lot that the "principles" seem to move with whoever holds the subpoena power.

Over the next few months, which CEO do you think changes their tune the fastest?

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Apple shipped a watchOS beta yesterday that listens to the conversations around you and turns them into a daily summary.

It's opt-in. It's on-device. Summaries delete after 7 days unless you save them. Fine, I'll believe all of that.

What I keep thinking about is the other person. I can opt in for my wrist. The guy across the table at lunch didn't opt in to anything. He just got turned into bullet points with a title.

As a developer I get why this is fun to build. As a person I'm not sure I want to be the one wearing it in a meeting.

Would you turn it on, or would you ask someone to take theirs off?

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V2 coming soon

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RIGGED ELECTION!

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I actually tested this.

Last month my replies dropped to single digit views, even under posts with millions. I'm on Premium+. So I went through the open source repo looking for how long reply labels last, and checked Under the Hood.

The code is real and it's genuinely useful. But Under the Hood only shows labels on a monthly report, it doesn't show reply level flags, and I couldn't see an appeal path until X asked me to do a Face ID check in the app.

Open code is a great start. Inspectable would mean I can see what's on my account today, why, and when it ends.

Has Under the Hood ever actually explained a drop in reach for you?

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Jensen was right we dont need to learn anything in the future, AI cant teach us everything 🤡

[Husk @huskirl]

Asking my AI teacher how to spell seventeen