Navin Pai

I'm A Moron Who's Too Lazy To Write A Proper Bio

[Guru Gulab @madaddie24]

Bhajji got pretty upset with Dhoni for this ad though. Ads used to be pretty wild back then🤣

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

Ex-colleague of mine "wrote" a book. Went to the Amazon listing, and this is how I see it. Dunno if it's just post-GenAI but seeing multiple em dashes in a piece of text is a strong "smell" and makes me think twice about even reading further

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

. @YCstartups took the edict of "Do things that do not scale" a bit too seriously 😅😂

[Jared Friedman @snowmaker]

We had room for 2,000 people at Startup School India.

More than 25,000 applied.

No Startup School anywhere in the world has ever had this many people apply. Not SF, not NYC, not London. India blew them all away.

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

12 years since @babarecursive's glorious review of the HIMYM finale 😂😄

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

12 years ago today, 'HOW I MEET YOUR MOTHER' ended with the lowest rated finale ever.

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

With agentic slop, we are trading software reliability for shipping velocity and calling it progress. It isn't. Systems are more fragile than ever, and engineers building them no longer trust their code to hold up in real-world edge cases.

I am pro-AI, but this will backfire - big time.

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

Sir can buy 5 tickets for EVERY Congress MLA for EVERY single IPL match for the next 20 IPLs and not even notice the money spent, but still insists on promoting VIP Culture while the state struggles with the most basic civic issues under his watch. 😢😢

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Bengaluru | On Karnataka Congress MLAs demanding VIP tickets for IPL matches, Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar says, "The MLAs have the right because they are part of the government. I will speak to the chairman to see that our MLAs are accommodated. Let Tejasvi Surya give gyaan to his party members..."

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

All the AI in the world, and spammers still can't figure out how to fill in names into automated emails 🤣

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

Every college hackathon team that built exactly this sometime between 2013-2018 is screaming at their screens right now 😆😂

[CRED @CRED_club]

new password: you.

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

@sagarkamat All hype cycles are not the same though. AR/VR continues to be a "5 years away" tech, and IMO will continue to be until there's something that breaks fundamental physics/material tech.

https://t.co/J3i6Dmfcue

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

@sagarkamat Problem is that mass adoption of AR/VR has been "5-10 years away" since ATLEAST the 1980s and while technology has certainly progressed at rapid pace, many of fundamental issues have remained, be it in Second Life, Google Glasses, Magic Leap or now Meta's verse. Hence skepticism.

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

@Kenu73 @makemytripcare @makemytrip . @makemytrip is horrible, was in exactly the same situation a few weeks ago where they kept me in limbo for nearly an entire day. I went and booked alternate arrangements assuming this is cancelled only for them to then send a ticket and claim "This is timely delivery". Scum.

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

On the other hand, when I had similar issues with some other booking on @Cleartrip, they had human support that gave us clear details on where the issue is (OTA vs Airline), what the next steps are, and when we'll get refund.

Very likely stopping using @makemytrip for flights.

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

Indian OTAs are quite notorious for horrendous customer support, but the king is, by far, @makemytrip /@makemytripcare ... Every support avenue is stupid decision-tree chatbots that don't offer any help other than go in circles and not even offer human agent support. 😠😠

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

For context: A flight of mine (ID: NN2AIVTO19927240107) shows "Booking Confirmation Awaited" for 12+ hours. I have no idea if it's proceeding, or failing, or getting refunded. Communication nada

Just AI bot going in "Ticket cannot be cancelled since it's not assigned yet" loop

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

"Why would anyone live in Delhi with air that's as toxic as breathing 15 cigarettes daily" said the Bengaluru guy on his way to work on Outer Ring Road which takes him 1.5 hours each way daily, during which he breathes in more dust than a Dyson vaccuum cleaner

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

If you are selling an "enterprise-grade" observability tool, and your homepage has been like this for the last 3+ hours, then I'm sorry to break it to you, but #yagmi

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

And atleast @BJP4India now and then decides to arrest/punish criminals from opposition parties. @INCIndia govts are incapable of even controlling these other-party "chillar" goons in their state, forget about any action against the larger ones (or those in their own party)

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

For context, Patil has 20x-ed his "declared" assets in 15 years yet his son won't pay 100 rupees for toll because he believes it's his birthright to travel toll-free.

"Dehaat" is truly a mindset that money can't solve (but we all knew that already)

[Deepak Bopanna @dpkBopanna]

"Do you know who my father is?"
Karnataka BJP leader Vijayagouda Patil’s son Samarthgouda Patil thrashes toll staffer for asking him to pay toll fee & saying he doesn't know who his father Vijayagouda was. Incident at the Vijayapura–Kalaburagi toll near Kannolli.

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

Reason #1471 why I hate junior engineers blindly using GenAI coding tools to write code. Every second PR I see is like this now. 🤦😢

If there's one advice I keep giving junior engineers, it's PLEASE don't outsource "thinking" to an LLM. Use it as a copilot, not as a crutch😮‍💨

[Navin Pai @navinpai]

Happy Diwali to Bryan Mbeumo and Harry Maguire and nobody else😄🎇🎆 #LIVMUN #GGMU

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 EV prices to match that of petrol vehicles in 4-6 months: Gadkari.