Navin Kabra

Founder at @ReliScore, Visiting Professor of Practice at @IITBTrustLab-@IITBombay, Instructor at @GenWise_, and an aspiring YouTuber. Erdős–Bacon number 7.

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

AI is eating the world. If you are spending time every day trying hard to automate as much of your job/company as possible, you have a seat at the table. Everyone else is on the menu.

[roon @tszzl]

really tasteful and advanced sycophancy involves minorly disagreeing with you to win rapport

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Usenet news

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010.

What’s the one website/app you still think about?

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

@adisaigaonkar @AmazonHelp @amazonIN I think the problem is with the last mile delivery team/agent, and as far as I can tell, that's fulfilled by @amazonIN

So no point shaming the seller

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

History repeats. Cancelled previous order. Re-ordered at a higher price

Again, at 9:30pm, I get a missed call and delivery status is changed to "Delivery on Hold".

Will @AmazonHelp/@AmazonIn manage to deliver tomorrow, or will the order get cancelled on Friday? Place your bets!

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Bought a phone on @AmazonIN ... Supposed to be delivered yesterday, but getting gaslighted ("delivery attempted" and "address wrong" etc)

Today, I see that the price of item has gone up by 3k.

Should I wait for my original delivery or assume that they're not going to deliver?

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Bought a phone on @AmazonIN ... Supposed to be delivered yesterday, but getting gaslighted ("delivery attempted" and "address wrong" etc)

Today, I see that the price of item has gone up by 3k.

Should I wait for my original delivery or assume that they're not going to deliver?

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

@aparanjape Want to maximize your use of AI but still give your brain enough exercise? Maybe buy a good quality notebook and fountain pen, as @ExponentialView suggests, and spend a few hours every week thinking with paper and pen.

cc: @docbhooshan

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

TIL: Many European countries force you to give 50-75% of your wealth to your children; you are not allowed to donate it to charity or give it to someone else!

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

Using Agents Without Becoming Dumb

Outsourcing thinking to agents, aka Cognitive offloading is bad for you: how to avoid that?

https://t.co/SXXTqVSyjv - @NGKabra

"In short, LLMs are a great tool to help you learn, but LLMs are also a great tool to help you avoid learning. You should be in the first category, but many people using LLMs are in the second.

I taught a course this month (“Data Analytics and Data Science with the help of Codex CLI”), and it was a continuous struggle to keep students in the first category instead of the second.

So if you are using agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI) and don’t want your brain to atrophy, here is a great prompt you can use to ensure that you learn while the agent does work for you:"

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

@finkrishna @amazonIN @AmazonHelp @ajju918 Agreed.

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Bought a phone on @AmazonIN ... Supposed to be delivered yesterday, but getting gaslighted ("delivery attempted" and "address wrong" etc)

Today, I see that the price of item has gone up by 3k.

Should I wait for my original delivery or assume that they're not going to deliver?

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

I wish I had seen this a month back. Would have been a useful prompt to give the students of my course (Data Science with Codex CLI)... But, will use this in August when I'm teaching the course again (different level of students: undergraduates this time)

[Thariq @trq212]

been asking others at Anthropic how they stay in the loop with Claude and fully understand the work being done

this is one of my favorites from Suzanne:

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

@amazonIN @AmazonHelp @ajju918 My guess is that I got a "separate team" because of the intervention of the @AmazonHelp Twitter team. I don't know if that was necessary, or whether even the regular customer service would have given me the price-difference-refund if I had asked for it.

Updating here, just FYI.

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

@amazonIN @AmazonHelp @ajju918 When I contacted customer service this morning ("Your Account > Contact Us > Click on order > Chat with Agent") they told me that a separate team is handling my issue. This separate team authorized refunding the difference.

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

@nehalmax @amazonIN Aundh...

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

@FHumungous Talked to 4 different customer service people since morning, and they keep saying they'll escalate it for "urgent delivery" but no change in status...

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Anyone have experience with something like this? Am I likely to get the delivery if I wait long enough or will they gaslight me until I cancel it? ("Sold by Myles!" "Ships from Amazon")

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Bought a phone on @AmazonIN ... Supposed to be delivered yesterday, but getting gaslighted ("delivery attempted" and "address wrong" etc)

Today, I see that the price of item has gone up by 3k.

Should I wait for my original delivery or assume that they're not going to deliver?

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

@kulkarnirahulv @amazonIN Oh, OK. Yes, it is an exchange offer. So thanks for the suggestion.

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

@alt_hc270795 I have no idea if I was talking to real humans or AI...

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Complaining to Amazon customer service about an order not getting delivered

I thought the "red livery" alert in the response was probably a high-level alert in their sytem (like "red alert" but even higher priority)... until I realized that it is just a typo for "redelivery" 😢