Ishmam Chowdhury

somewhere between nature and neural networks

[Movez @0xMovez]

Ex-Google AI engineer:

"We will be running hundreds of agents working for us in the near future. I'm running 40 agents in parallel.

I have built a $50,000 marketing team for just $500 using AI."

in 15-minute masterclass, ex-Google engineer reveals how to build a pro agentic system from scratch.

Worth more than a $500 AI course on the internet.

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[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

The 6 MOST valuable skills to learn in the AGENTIC era and how to learn them (clearly explained in 29 minutes)

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I just got back from SF and I FEEL INSPIRED.

I spent 5 days with frontier AI model teams, AI startup founders, and 3 billionaires.

My takeaways:

1. I had lunch with 3 billionaires. All of them are buying SaaS companies and rebuilding them agent-first. They were deeply inspired by Bending Spoons and Ryan Cohen's eBay deal. Buy the company, cut the headcount, rebuild the tech, add agents, add features, make more valuable experience, raise prices.

2. The frontier model companies are hungry for usage data from the field. They can see API calls and token counts. They can't see the actual workflows. If you're deep in a niche using these models in ways the model companies haven't seen, that understanding is incredibly valuable. Usage intelligence is the new alpha.

3. Consumer AI is massively underbuilt. Every billboard in SF is either B2B inference infrastructure or vertical agent companies. The entire city is optimized for enterprise. Meanwhile you have companies like Cal AI doing $50M ARR in 18 months as a consumer app. I met with a cool few teams doing consumer AI (@paulscherer / @ekuyda)

4. MCP came up in literally every conversation. The companies exposing their product as MCP endpoints are getting pulled into deals they never pitched for. The ones that aren't are becoming invisible to agents. This is the new SEO. If agents can't find you, you don't exist. Building products for agents is the new zeitgeist in general.

5. Not uncommon for hot seed rounds to be $25-50 million valuations. I saw a Series A at $450 million

6. If I had a dollar every time someone mentioned "forward-deployed engineer" this trip I could have funded a seed round. It's the hottest role in SF right now. The person who sits between the agent and the customer, making sure everything actually works.

7. The mood around open source shifted. A year ago it felt like open source was chasing the frontier models. Now founders are telling me Gemma and DeepSeek are good enough for 80% of what they need at a fraction of the cost. The "which model do you use" conversation is being replaced by "which model for which task." Model loyalty kinda feels dead.

8. Voice agents came up more than I expected. Multiple founders told me voice is the interface for the next billion users. The billion people who will never type a prompt will absolutely talk to one.

9. The Obsidian community in SF is weirdly intense. Multiple founders showed me their vaults unprompted. Like showing someone your home gym. It's a flex now. The quality of your knowledge base (second brain?) is becoming a status symbol among builders.

10. Maybe it was just the people I met but the age of the founders is shifting. I met more founders over 40 this trip than any trip before and more founders under age 21 than ever before. Founders getting older and younger at the same time.

11. I spoke to a lot of fast-growing startups, VCs and frontier models who are hiring content creators right now.

12. The restaurant scene in SF is actually better than it's been in years. Founders are going out more. Alcohol is out, not surprisingly.

13. SF doesn't feel like the only place anymore. We all have access to the same frontier models. We all read the same X feed. A founder in NYC or Lagos is calling the same APIs as a founder in SoMa. So in the past it felt like SF was always lightyears ahead, doesn't feel that way anymore. It's okay not to live in SF and have BIG DREAMS.

14. The coworking spaces in SF are half empty but the coffee shops are packed. People want to be around people. I had a few startup ideas here....

15. Walking around the Mission I noticed something: the street-level businesses, the taquerias, the barbershops, the laundromats, none of them use any AI at all.

16. I heard the phrase "agent debt" for the first time. Like technical debt but for agents. When you hack together an agent workflow fast and never clean it up, the system prompts conflict, the memory gets polluted, the tools overlap. 6 months later the agent is doing weird things and nobody knows why lol.

17. Met a few people who carry two phones now. One for personal. One that's basically an agent terminal running Telegram or iMessage connections to their agent fleet.

It's always amazing to get that dose of inspiration in SF. I FEEL INSPIRED.

But I'm so happy to be back home, locked in and building.

We're 12-18 months into a shift that will take 15 years to play out. The urgency in every conversation was real.

What an incredible time to be building.

[Ishmam Chowdhury @ismamimon]

@LoganTGott Funnel

[AdiiX @adiix_official]

SOMEONE JUST KILLED THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY

A guy scanned an entire house with his phone. Uploaded it.

Now anyone on Earth can walk through it in a browser tab. No app. No VR. No agent. No appointment.

Click → you’re inside. Every room. Every angle. Every shadow. Photoreal.

The numbers are insane:

- Agent fee on a $500k home: $15,000
- Cost to make this scan: ~$200
- Time to “tour” 50 houses: one evening
- File size: smaller than a TikTok

The science is wild too:

It’s called 3D Gaussian Splatting instead of polygons (how games render), it uses millions of tiny glowing “splats” of color and depth.

AI reconstructs reality from your photos. The result loads on a phone and looks like you’re THERE.

The grift opportunity is even wilder:

Freelancers are already charging $300–$800 per scan for realtors, Airbnbs, venues, car dealers, museums.

One person + one phone + one weekend = a business.

Open source. Built on PlayCanvas.

Free GitHub: https://t.co/ew6Ql8Ad6u

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@Jason I’m in

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@Zephyr_hg News

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@realsigridjin hey

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@timothylindblom Newly

[Ishmam Chowdhury @ismamimon]

@amilabs "Real intelligence does not start in language. It starts in the world."

Just applied to join the team. The industry has enough LLM wrappers; we need systems that can actually reason, plan, and operate safely in physical environments. Interesting!!!

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@kacieahmed Count me in ✋🏽

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Sam Altman literally gave a 43-minute masterclass on turning ideas into billion-dollar companies:

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@NayrhitB @SusquehannaVC @LightspeedIndia @BCapitalGroup @beenextVC @sparrowcapvc @2point2club deck

[CG @cgtwts]

This guy just built a real-time global intelligence dashboard and open sourced it for free.

>You can now monitor the war

>It tracks conflicts, military activity, infrastructure, protests, and market signals live.

>Runs in your browser
>MIT licensed.

[Ishmam Chowdhury @ismamimon]

@TTiwa147 @IRIran_Military @grok @grok update?

[Ishmam Chowdhury @ismamimon]

@xoaanya Same question I was reflecting on last night. I think for me satisfaction comes when users truly feel content. That can be achieved through building a product, platform/space. However, when reality knocks at your door asking for bills, expenses - what to prioritize?

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@justbyte_ Hey

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Emerging markets do not need more opportunists.

They need builders.

If you care about fintech, gold, or cross border infrastructure between Bangladesh and North America, let’s connect.

[Ishmam Chowdhury @ismamimon]

We are not just selling gold.

We are trying to build regulated, trust based digital gold infrastructure in Bangladesh.

That takes discipline.