Nitiz

aspiring digital nomad . Japanese language enthusiast. (日本語も少しはなせます) | ex-nerd | sometimes talkative

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward (imo of the same order as Claude 4.5 was in November), peaking especially for long problem-solving sessions on very difficult problems. You can give it a lot more ambitious tasks than what you're used to, the model "gets it" and it will just go, and it's never felt this tempting to stop looking at the code at all (but don't do this in prod!). The model still has quirks that people will run into and the safeguards are configured to be a little too trigger happy for launch, which can hopefully be tuned over time.

I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref). Really looking forward to all the things people build!

[Nitiz @msnitish]

@takatakha But how do we solve this v

[Nitiz @msnitish]

@AnjneyMidha @mabb0tt @karpathy @bhorowitz @brendaniribe @DavidBaszucki @LiamFedus @ekindogus @sama Stanford truly staying up to date!!

[Anjney Midha @AnjneyMidha]

so @mabb0tt and I are once again volunteering to teach https://t.co/17s6lIexa2

there are so many new frontiers to be pioneered

thank you to our speakers like @karpathy @bhorowitz @brendaniribe @DavidBaszucki @LiamFedus @ekindogus @sama for investing in the next generation

[Nitiz @msnitish]

@mukundjha @garrytan @ycombinator Damn! This is fun

[Nitiz @msnitish]

@frontierindica Looks like entrepreneurship is the only way ahead then

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

Hyderabad beats Bangalore in being India's GCC hotspot. Last month I was in Hyderabad for a panel discussion & I urged the stakeholders to learn from Gurgaon on how to sell their story
They are too cautious in blowing their trumpet. They shouldn't. You need to shout to be heard

[Nitiz @msnitish]

@tankots @WisprFlow Quite Impressive! product and the launch vid too.. have been hearing a lot of buzz abt it

[Nitiz @msnitish]

@tankots @WisprFlow Wispr Flow

[Google Labs @GoogleLabs]

Today, we’re introducing Pomelli’s latest feature update, ‘Photoshoot’

With Photoshoot, you can start from a single image of your product and easily create high quality, customized product shots to elevate your marketing.

Available free of charge in the US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand! Get started with Pomelli today at https://t.co/SbeT00ToNx

[Nitiz @msnitish]

@AnishTum @MrN178__ Reason being ? Social network ?

[Nitiz @msnitish]

This! Hurts a lot with the current style of system

[Sushant🇮🇳 @hedgewala]

Appreciate @RaghavChadha for raising land reform issues.

But stamp duty needs reform too.

Every resale of a property attracts 6% stamp duty + ~1% registration — even though no new asset is created.

The same house is fully taxed again and again on every transfer.

This repeated transaction tax hurts buyers and market liquidity.

Stamp duty taxes the same property again and again on every resale — without creating anything new.

[Sumit Behal @sumitkbehal]

Sri Lanka is now offering Digital Nomad Visa to foreign professional at annual fee of 500 USD

The duration of stay will be 12 months and applicant must have monthly income over 2000 USD

[Nitiz @msnitish]

@chil40395 @akarlin Most of these tech companies have interviews which are very fair and talent scouting is done through local HRs.

[Nitiz @msnitish]

@robertdowns356 @akarlin People in India face poor infrastructure and limited govt support, so the pressure to earn more is higher and “passion” often takes a backseat. In Germany, a comfortable middle-class life reduces the need to grind hard to solve basic life problems.

[anupam sidhant @anupamsidhant]

Artists Are Professional Manipulators.
Every good artist manipulates. That’s not an insult. It’s the job.

As Michael Caine says in The Prestige : we “want” to be fooled. We don’t want to know the secret.

The relationship between artist and audience is consensual manipulation.
Like intimacy - once you trust that you’re in good hands, you surrender.
You allow yourself to be lied to.

I know the actor isn’t the character.
I know the house isn’t real.
I know there’s no match-cuts in real life.
I know no one jumps that impossible bridge(unless you’re Tom Cruise).

And still, I want to believe all of it.
One of my clearest filters for good art is this:
Can it manipulate me, even when I know all the tricks?

If it can, that’s not deception. That’s craftsmanship.
That’s someone who owns the suit they’re wearing.

3/n

[Nitiz @msnitish]

@katiewr31413491 @ZeroTemptations @lpolgreen Goes to show religous tolerance

[Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen]

I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. https://t.co/ORW0wcZ44s

[Nitiz @msnitish]

@aaditsh I doubt how useful these kinda courses are for SWEs though

[Deedy @deedydas]

In the last few days, BigTech giants have announced a total ~$68B in India investments in the next 5 years.

It’s abundantly clear that after the US, India is going to be the biggest revenue driver, home to many data centers and a source of technical talent for AI.