Pooja Agarwal

Software Engineer at Google

forever love: space, entrepreneurship

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

Pinned so that I don't forget.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

Red, black, blue - do it all.

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

Excited about the impact of groundbreaking research on both popular and less studied, less common diseases as drug discovery gets accelerated with AI. Health for all.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health.

That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease!

We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

What we work on and how we work is shifting considerably. What is called "work" needs to be redefined too.

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

Tokens economy.

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

Indeed!

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Incredible! The purple-ish and reddish colors don't quite come through when we look from Earth (and the black background highlights the vastness of space)

[Sara Hooker @sarahookr]

Wisdom. The best thinking happens on walks.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨HISTORY MADE: Astronaut Christina Koch, aboard Artemis II, officially becomes the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth.

[NASA @NASA]

Happens to the best of us 😅

@astro_reid comments on Earth's beauty after noting that the days are blurring together for the Artemis II astronauts.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

Innovation demands the ability to live with uncertainty.

[Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social) @blaiseaguera]

Last month my Paradigms of Intelligence team introduced a scalable framework that addresses a fundamental challenge in multi-agent RL: achieving cooperation among self-interested agents.
https://t.co/xKiku2sSFu

[jack @jack]

is the future value of "open source" code anymore? i believe it's shifting to data, provenance, protocols, evals, and weights. in that order.

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

A central question is how the ecosystem and business models will evolve around services becoming data providers and agentic access in consumer products. For agents to be genuinely helpful, they will need trusted, programmatic access to most services.

[a16z @a16z]

The current internet wasn't built for agents.

"There’s a huge opportunity for startups to create these proxies… if someone would give me a scoped Gmail, I’d adopt it today."

"There are websites today where the majority of the revenue, and certainly the majority of profits, come from cross-selling. If this website is suddenly only used by agents, that doesn't work anymore, right?"

"All of these large consumer sites... they don't want agents, essentially."

"One interesting question here is: will the big incumbents catch up and offer their functionality for agents, or do we actually need new companies that cater to agents specifically?"

"Do we actually need to replace some of the big sort of SaaS building blocks of e-commerce, of online services, and redo them for agents?"

@stuffyokodraws @appenz on the AI + a16z Podcast

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Amazing sun halo filmed over Sweden.

📽: Håkan Hammar

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

One light-day from Earth, see history and more here: https://t.co/p8mc1k442i

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: After 48 years of travel, NASA 's Voyager 1 is nearing one light-day from Earth, almost 16 billion miles away.

A proud milestone for humanity, and a humbling reminder of how small we are in an infinite universe.

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

Now I understand. It was not from family, but from other circumstances.

https://t.co/ymMtt2abSj

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

This is an exciting and worthwhile future.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Cool use case of AlphaFold, this is just the beginning of digital biology!

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

I met with a Nobel laureate today — an amazing 1:1 conversation!
The chances of it happening were pretty low, but when you’re on a mission, the universe has a way of making unexpected things happen.

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

i wish i was this jellyfish.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The lion's mane jellyfish is the largest known species of jellyfish, with tentacles as long as 30 meters (100 feet).

📽: Andrii Slonchak
https://t.co/NJ8RUtEN5Q

[Pooja Agarwal @pagarwl]

Personal AI is not just integrations with various corpuses but it is about a deeper understanding of the individual, their needs, and how it can help appropriately in all domains of the individual's life. While today’s agentic systems show promise, the long term understanding of the human and autonomous support are important next aspects for a truly personal AI.