Kshitij Mathur

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[Fred Lambert @FredLambert]

Amid the millions of posts about Musk becoming a trillionaire, that's the only interesting perspective.

He is a paper trillionaire. Now, I'm not delusional; Musk has created real wealth, but if we are being generous, about 80% of his wealth is based on the speculative future earnings of Tesla and SpaceX.

If those earnings don't materialize, Musk will not be known as the first trillionaire. He will be known as the first guy who wiped out several trillion dollars in shareholder value.

Something to keep in mind.

[Cockrock is Back @helloGr0k]

धर्मेंद्र प्रधान का इस्तीफ़ा होना चाहिए रीट्वीट अगर सहमत है .
#dharmendre #neet

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

You thought you can get rid of us? Lol

[Arpit Sharma @iArpitSpeaks]

No engagement with those who pushed India to 157th Rank in Press Freedom.

#MainBhiCockroach

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@chiragbarjatya I’m an example of this. Salary increased exponentially. But focus on health was simply not there.
Annual blood work opened my eyes

The idea of taking care of health is to avoid problems later in life which is not something that comes in everyday life for most people

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@chiragbarjatya Go Nassata park if you want to get amazing Instagram photos
Cabs are expensive. So renting will help. Although Car parking is nightmare

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@hagaetc Code can be used and tested, yes

Designing systems cannot be tested. So that part of software job still cannot be automated easily

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@ShreyashLal2 @deedydas This was in 2010

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@deedydas This was in 2010

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@deedydas I got 9.8/10.0 GPA in 10th class and they refused to even give me admission form. The talent (along with parents connections/wealth) in that school is absolutely insane

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@deedydas Do you feel that Indian system of evaluating heavily through standardized test is better ?

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@Vatsal_Sanghvi Journey itself becomes more difficult for UPSC aspirant because they know if they fail, those 5 years will be wasted. So staying persistent and not giving up is even more difficult

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@Vatsal_Sanghvi Absolutely not true!

Learnings from startup translate into an actual joba in a small/medium environment
Someone spending 5 years in UPSC is considered worse than freshers by private companies

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@ravihanda I have great memories of travelling via school bus
But the ride was also risky as I had to cross 3 lane road.
If your child can commute via van/bus safely, he should do that

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@adhicutting Optimum plant based protein (rich chocolate flavour )

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@Vatsal_Sanghvi @shalakulkarni It’s pretty but traffic noise is very annoying

Cubbon park is better, but reaching there is not fun

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@VicVijayakumar that's the corporate way!

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@VicVijayakumar No it was ZIRP phenomenon

[Kshitij Mathur @kshitijmathur16]

@VicVijayakumar In India Jio subscription provides with all services and let’s you do global search as well