Varun Garg

Tech enthusiast | Learning something new every day

[Asli Punjabi @punjabkibaat]

Please support Laxmi Kanta Ji and donate to Durgayana Mandir — the Hindu Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Most Hindus don’t even know that there are two Golden Temples in Amritsar: one is the Hindu Golden Temple (Durgayana Mandir), and the other is the Sikh Golden Gurudwara.
Durgayana Mandir serves 24/7 bhandara (langar) entirely through community funds. We do not receive large donations from non-Hindus — everything is funded locally by Hindus. I urge every Hindu to come forward and donate generously to Durgayana Mandir.
The @PunjabFiles team will try our level best to establish a memorial inside Durgayana Mandir to honor the Hindu martyrs and security forces who lost their lives to terrorism between 1978 and 1996. Please do not donate to non-Hindu places in Punjab.
Your donations are being used against Hindus in Punjab.

[Varun Garg @ErVarun7]

Roz koi na koi dharna, roz koi na koi road block — aam public pisdi ja rahi hai. Drugs,crime, corruption sab peak te, par sarkar naam di koi cheez wajood vich nahi. Governance gayab, sirf social media stunts reh gaye ne. Ki banu Punjab da sache patshah waheguru jane #PunjabDeHaal

[Sarpanch Mika Gill @SarpanchMika]

आम आदमी कह रहा है के मेरी बेटी का पेपर है, हमें जानें दो ओर ये निहंग कह रहा के पैदल जाओ.....
जो आप ही नहीं पढ़ा उसे पढ़ाई की ओर समय की कीमत का क्या पता 🤔🤔
अगर इन निहंगो की कोई मांग है तो उस डिपार्टमेंट में जाकर धरना दें, आम पब्लिक को क्यूँ परेशान कर रहे हैं ये तालिबानी लोग.. ये वीडियो कल की लुधियाना की है

[Janhavi Jain | Building SKIPD @janwhyy]

WeWork charges ₹15,000 a month for a desk and wifi. A Blue Tokai cold coffee costs ₹280 and comes with both.

There are people in every Third Wave and Blue Tokai in this country right now who ordered one coffee 4 hours ago and have been on back-to-back Zoom calls since. The café sees them. The café has absolutely given up trying to turn that table.

An entire generation looked at coworking prices, looked at café prices, and made an obvious decision.

cafés became India's largest coworking network by accident, and nobody's figured out how to charge for it without losing them.

[Royal Singh 🦁 @Royalsinghz3]

J&K has 28% about (35 Lakh) Hindu Population, but has 29 Hindu BJP MLAs, 3 Hindu LS MPs, 1 RS MP & even a Hindu Deputy CM & many Cabinet Ministers

Punjab has 40% ( 1.10 Crore+) Hindu Population but have only 13 Hindu MLAs, 1 Hindu MP despite having more constituencies than J&K

My message to my Punjabi Hindu Brothers & Sister y'all need to come out & take their rightful share in politics & other administrative roles

J&K has also a good share of Hindus in Govt Offices & Civil Services, Can any Punjabi Hindu tell me, do they face any discrimination in State PSC exams ?

[Varun Garg @ErVarun7]

Punjab bane nu itne saal ho gaye, par CM di kursi hamesha Jatt Sikh leaders tak hi simat rahi. Jakhar sahib jehe leaders v caste/dharm kaaran pichhe reh gaye. Eh dharm de khilaf nahi, sirf sochan vali gal: leadership merit, ability te honesty utte based hovey, na ki caste utte.

[Varun Garg @ErVarun7]

@divya5521 Today, Punjab needs a well-educated Chief Minister and capable ministers who can focus on governance. Law and order are getting worse, and corruption seems to be increasing. Punjab deserves strong, honest, and responsible leadership.

[Varun Garg @ErVarun7]

@divya5521 There is no leader in Congress today with the stature of Captain Amarinder Singh. He was a one-man army in Punjab and kept the party united despite internal differences. Without him, it will be very difficult for Congress to win in Punjab.

[Vikas Vij @TheClubJunto]

IT Industry's First Lifeline Against AI

Fortune Headline: AI Proving Costlier Than Human Employees

Vishal Sikka: Token costs are becoming a real issue

Microsoft: Canceling Claude; moving engineers back to Copilot

Indian IT: AI Hybrid + ₹ @ 100 can change arithmetic

INSIGHTS:

First Cracks in the AI Story

a. In recent months, Anthropic’s AI agentic tool Claude sparked a massive selloff in SaaS and IT services stocks, erasing hundreds of billions in market value.

b. On May 22, 2026, Fortune magazine has published an article which says that recent corporate reports are “exposing AI’s real cost problem.”

c. Microsoft has begun cancelling most of its Claude Code licenses, moving thousands of its developers, project managers, and designers back to using its in-house GitHub Copilot CLI.

d. Microsoft isn’t alone. Uber’s CTO said the firm had already burnt through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in just 4 months (Jan to Apr). Meta, Amazon and other tech firms pushing for max use of AI tokens too face the same dilemma.

e. Fortune article says: “These reports may throw cold water on the bets tech industry has placed on AI. While some cling to the promise of an “AI revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck.”

f. Highlight Line for IT Services: “The economics of replacing or augmenting human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied.”

g. Earlier today, Dr. Vishal Sikka posted the Fortune article on his X account with these comments: “Token costs are becoming a real issue. In the weeks/months ahead, I expect more scrutiny of AI usage.”

h. Goldman Sachs recently forecasted that agentic AI token consumption could increase 24x by 2030. So, even if the cost-per-token will fall sharply, aggregate costs will rise.

g. AI compute, inference, energy, and tooling costs (including AI native expert costs) are not going to zero. Just as broadband internet or electricity never became free despite massive improvements in efficiency and scale.

h. Jevons Paradox: As more AI use cases emerge for individuals and businesses, the increased token consumption will outpace falling unit costs.

i. Citing Pew Research polls, Harvard’s Gazette reported last month that public opposition is rising over the large water & electricity demands that data centers impose on communities, while creating almost no new jobs. (1.4 GW Data Center = electricity for a million US homes.)

Indian IT Cost Modeling

Here’s a rough back-of-the-envelope calculation:

The Human Cost

The current cost of a mid-level Indian IT developer is ₹950 per hour (including salary plus fixed & operational overheads).

At the exchange rate of ₹95, this engineer costs the company $10 per hour.

If the exchange rate is ₹100, the cost goes down to $9.50 per hour.

The AI Multiplier

Now train this IT developer on enterprise AI tools. This won’t replace the developer, but it will make him twice as efficient (2x multiplier). So, he can now finish 2 hours worth of work in 1 hour.

Therefore, cost per hour drops to $4.75 (half of $9.50)

Cost of AI Tools

Indian IT companies have to rent AI models from the US. Assume that the cost of AI tooling is $6.25 per hour for every IT engineer using the system.

Total Cost of Operation

$4.75 + $6.25 = $11 per hour

This is the “Indian AI-Augmented Model” @ $11 per hour

Who Wins the Global Price War?

100% AI Model in the US (with high AI native expert salaries, AI token costs, data center power costs, and local overheads & taxes) may cost $15 to $20 per hour.

An India IT firm can deliver the same high-tech AI-driven work at an internal cost of $11 per hour.

Weak ₹ as a Tactical Weapon

With every ₹1 depreciation against the US dollar, an Indian IT export firm’s operating margin expands by 30 to 50 bps (0.3 to 0.5%).

The way China intentionally undervalued its currency for years to dominate world trade, India must also learn to weaponize the rupee to its advantage.

If cracks indeed begin to emerge in AI frontier model cost economics, it will be time for India to go on the offensive and fight the IT & GCC service exports battle on the front foot.

@arabicatrader

[Career with Idris @iakinlabii]

Corporate life will teach you that knowing the job is only half the battle.

The real skill is staying calm in meetings, reading the room, managing ego, receiving vague feedback, and not replying emails with your real thoughts.

[Arshdeep Singh Saini @the_lama_singh]

As a Sikh, I am delighted to see Hindus of Punjab raising their voice to claim their rightful ownership in the state affairs.

[dharmesh @dharmesh]

Over the past 25 years we've gone from:

Cloud Computing

to

Claude Computing

[Puneet Kumar @puneetiitm]

For two decades, the answer was: delegate.
Now, more often than not, the answer is: just do it yourself with AI.
I was reviewing our LP deck yesterday and wanted to make a few new slides. Briefing an analyst, waiting, reviewing, revising — would've been 2-3 days. With Claude, 90 minutes. Alone.
Team leaders/ Senior leaders who don't update this instinct will get out-shipped by people half their seniority.

[Dr Anuj Kumar @dranuj_k]

Hellhole वो एपस्टीन आइलैंड है @realDonaldTrump जहाँ तुमने और तुम्हारे साथियों ने छोटी छोटी बच्चियों का बलात्कार किया ।

Hellhole तुम्हारा अमेरिका है जहाँ विश्व भर में सबसे ज़्यादा मौत drug overdosage से होती है ।

पूरे विश्व में gun culture में तुम्हारा देश सबसे आगे है ।

तुम्हारे देश के हर 12 डॉक्टर में एक डॉक्टर भारतीय है।
प्राइमरी केयर में तो हर चौथा डॉक्टर भारतीय है।

तुम्हारे देश की जो स्वास्थ्य व्यवस्था है, जिसे तुम लोगों ने insurance कंपनी के हाथों गिरवी रखा है, वो थोड़ी बहुत भी जो टिकी हुई है वो भारतीय डॉक्टरों पर टिकी हुई है ।

जिस silicon valley के नाम पर तुम जाने जाते हो उसमे काम करने वाले 25% लोग भारतीय हैं ।
और सिर्फ काम करने वाले नहीं बल्कि उनके top ceo भारतीय हैं ।

और इसमें से ज़्यादातर लोगों ने अपनी पढ़ाई भारत के संस्थानों से की है ।

भारतीय वहाँ आगे इसलिए हैं क्यूँकि उनमें काबिलियत है, वो मेहनती हैं, दिन रात काम करने की आदत है उन्हें ।
इसीलिए तुम्हारी कंपनियों की मजबूरी है भारतीयों को लेना।

और सिर्फ अमेरिका ही नहीं, द���निया के कई देशों में भारतीय मूलवासियों का परचम है ।

और जहाँ तक बात तुम्हारी है तो दुनिया देख रही है तुम्हारी सनक,
जिस महाशक्ति होने का तुम्हें गुमान था वो आज टूट चुका है ।
एक छोटे से देश ने तुम्हें तुम्हारी औक़ात दिखा दी ।

तुम्हारे देश में सबसे बेहतरीन मनोरोग विशेषज्ञ में से एक हैं डॉ राजेंद्र और डॉ दिलीप ।
दोनों ही भारतीय हैं ।
जा के इलाज करा लो उनसे अपना ।
जाहिल कहीं के ।

[Neha Singhal Trader @nsinghal211]

₹3 lakh engineer.
₹55 lakh billing to US/UK clients.

That was the Indian IT services playbook for decades.

Hire cheap.Sell expensive.Print margins.
Now?
#AI writes the code.
#AI reviews the code.
#AI debugs the code.
The old labor-arbitrage model is under pressure.
And the pain is getting deeper.
Very deep.

[नंदिता ठाकुर 🇮🇳 @nanditathhakur]

What a beautiful day — known by many names and rich in meaning:

✨ Kali Chaudas – The day devoted to Maa Kali, symbolizing the destruction of darkness and evil.

⚔️ Narak Chaturdashi – Marks the victory of Shri Krishna over the demon Narkasur.

🙏 Yam Chaturdashi – The day to worship Yamraj and pray for health and longevity.

🌸 Roop Chaturdashi (Abhyang Snan) – The traditional day for purifying body and soul, said to invite the blessings of Maa Lakshmi.

🔥 Chhoti Deepawali – The night before Diwali, when homes begin to glow with the first lamps of the festival.

Hanuman Jayanti (as per some regional traditions) – Believed by certain scriptures to be the night Lord Hanuman was born.

[Ravneet Singh Bittu @RavneetBittu]

I strongly condemn bomb attack on Thakur Dwara temple in Sri Amritsar Sahib. AAP government fails to check repeated incidents of blasts in border city. Deteriorating law and order in Punjab is matter of serious concern.
@ANI @PTI_News @CNNnews18 @DainikBhaskar @HTPunjab @News18Punjab

[Manik Goyal @ManikGoyal_]

Shockingly ‼️illegal mining resumes behind Chhatbir Zoo!

A few days ago,after my complaint, illegal mining was halted briefly. But now,it's back in full swing.

Despite multiple press notes from @dcmohali assuring strict monitoring, it was all a lie. Today at 11 AM, my team visited the site, blatant illegal mining was happening .The same continued in the evening around 4 (Video)

There is only one contract for desilting, yet sand is being excavated far from the water body & sold for nearby road construction.

CM @BhagwantMann, why is this not stopped despite written complaints? As people said ,are you working hand in glove with local MLAs administration and Mining minister @barinder_goyal or are they all fooling you?

Locals report 500-800 tippers of sand being looted daily, worth ₹10-15 lakh per day. @AamAadmiParty is plundering Punjab’s natural resources, this is the true face of the "Badlaav" they promised !!

@KuljitRandhawaa, @jouramajra

[Varun Garg @ErVarun7]

@y0geshtweets Bhak 😂

[Dr Gaurav Garg @DrGauravGarg4]

One of the biggest scams in India that no media is talking about #WestBengal

Yesterday Calcutta High Court has cancelled the appointment of 36,000 primary teachers who cleared the state’s teacher eligibility test in 2014 and were recruited in 2016. 36k candidates got a job without proper interview, aptitude test or qualification

[Dr Gaurav Garg @DrGauravGarg4]

IAS Couple are transferred to #Ladakh and #ArunachalPradesh because both these states are traditionally considered as punishment postings.
Shame on the higher authorities for such a thinking.

Also, parking IAS officers from one place to another is not an act of punishment.