Vishal Kumar

Founder of @quantana_in, builder of cool tech products and creative designs. Also likes cheese. Currently building @secondcursor

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity no matter how impressive their other talents. - Andrew Carnegie

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

@Preetam_M_Rao Thanks for bumping it up. Wish they would make one closer to today’s timeline now that we are approaching what they forecasted

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

Art /music/UI is amazing - you have to create something that doesn't exist yet, but once it does, it has to feel just right.

Oh AI can now do a first draft, which means you have to level up to something else out of the box.

A better story, perhaps.

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

Clients don't want AI enabled solutions. They just want the outcome. Doesn't matter who/what is doing it or how its getting done.

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

@matt_elevenlabs 11B

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

AI is magic. But you need to know what and how to cast spells.

Actually its just english, and all you need is imagination. And articulation. And a health understanding of how Computers work.

For now.

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

@NandanNilekani GoI should push for Youtube to enable auto-subbing and auto-dubbing to and from Indian Languages to enable everyone in India to access all content across any language in the world, and vice versa. The language models are ready - let's put it to use.

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

@sqs Looks like you're still rolling this out. I just signed up with my real name and email (https://t.co/oIbGFqjAJY) and it flagged me. Looking forward to trialing amp. Will check it out again in a week.

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

@RazorpayCare trying to get an account set up for a client and facing this. Not able to connect to anyone to get this sorted and it’s been 30 days. This is definitely an account you don’t want to miss out on. @Razorpay what do we do here?

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

'Type' 20X faster than you speak with this FREE AI Dictation software. https://t.co/3VxHXOGY9i

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

So avoid please, and act like a tough boss.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Rude prompts to LLMs consistently lead to better results than polite ones 🤯

The authors found that very polite and polite tones reduced accuracy, while neutral, rude, and very rude tones improved it.

Statistical tests confirmed that the differences were significant, not random, across repeated runs.

The top score reported was 84.8% for very rude prompts and the lowest was 80.8% for very polite.

They compared their results with earlier studies and noted that older models (like GPT-3.5 and Llama-2) behaved differently, but GPT-4-based models like ChatGPT-4o show this clear reversal where harsh tone works better.

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Paper – arxiv. org/abs/2510.04950

Paper Title: "Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)"

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Rude prompts to LLMs consistently lead to better results than polite ones 🤯

The authors found that very polite and polite tones reduced accuracy, while neutral, rude, and very rude tones improved it.

Statistical tests confirmed that the differences were significant, not random, across repeated runs.

The top score reported was 84.8% for very rude prompts and the lowest was 80.8% for very polite.

They compared their results with earlier studies and noted that older models (like GPT-3.5 and Llama-2) behaved differently, but GPT-4-based models like ChatGPT-4o show this clear reversal where harsh tone works better.

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Paper – arxiv. org/abs/2510.04950

Paper Title: "Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)"

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

@PLBompard Digital Twins 4 Knowledge Workers

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

@hthieblot Digital Twins for Knowledge Workers, to bring down knowledge silos and simulate change.

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

Futurescoping: ChatGPT will go for a rebrand in the near future. It will likely start with something like IO (their hardware product) which will then become the main brand.

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

That was fast: https://t.co/r392SsqU5u

Not an island nation, but still works.

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

I expect a country will soon elect an AI to run the nation soon. Probably an island state with limited parameters. It will start as an advisor or a nominated post in a committee and over time evolve to handing over the keys. The system might still involved a human to sign bills

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

One of the most important skillsets you need to start building for 2026 is Multi Agent thinking - running parallel tasks and managing them in your laptop/phone etc.

Managers already do this intuitively but expect winners in 2026 are any age group that can handle parallel work

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

When your solution feels like magic, users don't care if it's AI, hardcoded, or duct tape. The best solutions don't pitch they are made of AI. They just work.

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I’m wondering when LLM coding tools free themselves from the shackles of human initiated paradigms like JavaScript, Python, etc and build from scratch.

Considering LLMs are themselves a black box, a new language basically might be some assembly wrapper ^100

[Vishal Kumar @itsvishal]

Prompting _is_ programming. It’s just programming a probabilistic model instead of a deterministic code. Still requires expertise and now an unusually high amount of trial and error.