Ashwat Mahendran

Non-conformist rebel and a curious generalist.

[Ashwat Mahendran @metashwat]

@anirudhamudan @keshavtrehan Visual representation of my bot after asking “work mele kya chal raha hai”

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@keshavtrehan Brb fine tuning the savagery of my agent 😂

[Keshav 🥐 @keshavtrehan]

One of the best bowling alleys I have bowled on in this country. Go check out Loco Lane at Residency Road if you haven’t

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@keshavtrehan Samsonite hasn’t been as good as it once used to be. Uppercase is my go-to that’s also solid.

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@keshavtrehan Until June 22, the world is your oyster - after that, your bank balance becomes the roster 😂

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Tools. Tasks. Triggers.

That’s been my go-to way of explaining how agents are different from chatbot LLMs.

Agents execute tasks using tools when preset triggers are struck. Chatbots wait for your prompt to give you an instant response.

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@keshavtrehan The guardrail skill harness takes care of it 90% of the time - but it still spills over sometimes 🥲

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Whenever I read any post that has “Not X. Not Y. Not Z” framing…

My brain goes, “not again” and “not you too” 😂

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@keshavtrehan I would go on a monologue rant over this

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@keshavtrehan The ‘cost-of-revenue line item’ hit hard

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@justinstorre This is a consistent pattern, startup world isn’t for early risers 😂

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@ponnappa AI transformation is a ship that’s sailed imo - the next era is for building autonomous companies

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@karpathy Cofounders joining competitors was not on my 2026 bingo, and we still got it before GTA6

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@vikrambuilds A macbook definitely can, not sure about generic laptops

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@DanielSmidstrup Telling people that my AI has built it, and maybe selling a prompt pack or a course around it 😂

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@martin_valchev_ Understanding the concept of moat, and building a strong one.

Otherwise they risk being overshadowed by frontier labs, or end up becoming a feature in someone else’s product.

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In other news of Indian ingenuity (or jugaad?) : https://t.co/RaQ46FtRU5

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@pmitu 6 – and half of them are inactive, just collecting backlinks 😂

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Every product launch video I’ve seen in the last two weeks eerily looks the same.

Maybe everyone’s just using the same hyperframes skill with remotion on claude design? 👀

Btw, what @zamp_ai did was on a league of its own, fyi

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@TTrimoreau Understanding what a moat is, where it comes from, how to strengthen it :)