Pramod Panchagnula

Product Manager. Prev: Coding Ninjas, Leap, Scale Labs (Founder), @bitspilaniindia
Here for tech, books, cinema.

[Pramod Panchagnula @kramodp]

Goals

[Pramod Panchagnula @kramodp]

@shivsakhuja Goose

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

"But a goal will not count if a player is offsides."

"When is a player offsides?"

"Whenever anything exciting happens."

[Pramod Panchagnula @kramodp]

@NotebookLM Yess! Add content discovery to notebookLM too please. Give me a radio of AI podcasts.

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

understanding every PM ive ever interacted with right now

what is bro cooking
we need to ship

[Pramod Panchagnula @kramodp]

Agree with @ku1deep but if you like somebody tell them when they are still alive

[kuldeep @ku1deep]

I look at the eulogies for Om Malik on twitter and elsewhere. There are all kinds of wealth but I think the kind of wealthy OM was we must all aspire to be.

[Pramod Panchagnula @kramodp]

I know a poet when I see one

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

Pulled the trigger today and switched 100% of Lindy traffic to DeepSeek v4, churning from Anthropic models.
Saves us millions of $ and we're actually seeing an *increase* in performance on many core use cases. Transformative for the business.

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

[Pramod Panchagnula @kramodp]

Hey @joshwoodward any chance I can convince you to add a keyboard shortcut to upload files on gemini web (Cmd + O)?

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.

[Pramod Panchagnula @kramodp]

lmao

[corsaren @corsaren]

Claude (tokens): “You’re absolutely right!”
Claude (activations): “holy shit this guy is retarded…”

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Gary Oldman on the "magic" of James Stewart:

"James Stewart is almost too tall to be a star in a strange kind of way. He's too skinny and he's got this really strange voice when he talked and you just think this shouldn't work.

He's not Humphrey Bogart, he's not Edward G. Robinson, he's not James Cagney and yet somehow it's magic when the camera is on him."

(Interview to BBC, 1997)

Clip from:

Rope (1948)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

[sameel arif @endpoint]

they call it mount tam because you can see your total addressable market from there

[Pramod Panchagnula @kramodp]

@bcherny Sounds helpful! Why 3 days?

[sam @samdape]

you basically need to be unemployed rn to keep up

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

Really tripping on the latest @SarvamAI brand design. The aesthetics are so India. Reminiscent of our childhood full of mandalas, colors of holi, temples of the South and minarets of the North. Truly "all of India" in sarvam, as they build AI for all. Incredible work by the design team over there - congrats! Go to: https://t.co/hkr6zCQePn

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

nah, i'm with @garrytan - boil the ocean

the idea of "precious engineering (or anything) bandwidth" is, as they say, dead.

build from a token abundance mindset.

yes > no

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

This was an eye opener from Jensen Huang

When asked whether he would rather relive his 20s or be 20 years old today, this is what he had to say:

"I thought our 20s were happier than these 20s. I think everyone deserves some time to be oblivious, and not wear all of the world's problems on their shoulders on Day 1

We are raising a generation that is very cynical and too informed

They are cynical, not because they are inherently cynical. They are cynical because they see so much stuff. It is too much stuff

You have to build up some internal reserve of optimism. You have to build up some reserve of goodness."