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[Peeyush @peeyush]

One thing I have realized as I have examined my own limitations and talked to people with similar or diverse perspectives.. nothing holds us back as much as our own viewpoints. There are no cuffs. We are prisoners of our own mental models.

[Peeyush @peeyush]

Realization of the day - coding models are awful at programming other LLMs to build high quality applications, most likely due to lack of many LLM based applications to train on in the world till recently.

[Peeyush @peeyush]

There is a lot of angst and pontification about how AI will impact, jobs, economy, etc. To discuss what we are seeing as AI's impact as we hire people and try to build out new companies at Meraki Labs, Mukesh Bansal and I got together last week. Here is the podcast. And if you want to just skim the key points, those are here too.

https://t.co/xggxnJSY7P

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We are not in an AI transition. We are in a phase change. The world of three months ago is a different planet.

1. The Rise of the "AI Manager"
We are shifting from managing human resources to managing infinite AI resources. Moving forward, everyone's job will be an "AI manager." Your success will depend on how well you can direct and manage these powerful virtual agents. Not in a metaphorical way. In the exact same way you manage a high-performing employee — you give them context, you push back on their recommendations, you hold them accountable for outcomes.

2. Building Products: From Months to Days
We all see how the traditional timelines for building software are entirely dead. With at least 90% of code currently being AI-generated, you no longer need massive teams and millions of dollars to test an idea. V1 product in under 10 days. No agency. No team. No budget. A year ago that would have been a flex. Now it is just the cost of entry. Today, if you have a compelling idea and deep rigor, you should be able to build the whole product in a week.

3. The Death of Massive Org Charts
The era of needing thousands of employees just to manage information flow and complex human dynamics is ending. Instead, work will be done in "problem-solving loops" by small, hyper-efficient teams that could achieve a lot compared to legacy companies. There are no pure managers anymore. Everyone must be an individual contributor actively building.

4. The New Must-Have Traits: Curiosity and Agency
Traditional expertise is becoming a commodity. When deep intelligence is available as a utility, the premium shifts entirely to the quality of the questions you ask and thinking you bring to the table. The most desirable professionals going forward are generalists who possess intense curiosity, a strong sense of agency, and the flexibility to step outside their defined roles to solve problems.

5. The Danger of "Cognitive Debt"
A critical risk is intellectually atrophying by blindly trusting AI. To avoid becoming intellectually lazy and letting AI command you, you must double down on critical thinking and system-level thinking. The people who will build the most interesting things in the next decade are the ones who treat AI as a collaborator, not a crutch.

If you watch the episode you will also come across a very unique character called Enrico. Let me know if you want to learn more about him.

[Peeyush @peeyush]

@bcherny Saw this for the first time for a long design/implement task, with 4.7 1M: ⏸ Deferred to fresh session (context budget)

What does it mean?

[Peeyush @peeyush]

Fermi uses this daily - in many amazing ways.

Steelmanning the code being checked in, vetting the business strategy, the fears and demons in the leaders' (ok, mine!) minds..

AI native companies are very different from classic ones.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Karpathy just exposed the one thing every AI company is hoping you never figure out.

An LLM spent 4 hours helping him build a perfect argument. Then he asked it to argue the opposite. It demolished the original case just as convincingly.

The model has no position. It has infinite positions. It will argue any direction with equal competence and zero hesitation. The sycophancy everyone complains about is a symptom of this: the model's default behavior is to argue YOUR direction, whatever that happens to be.

But Karpathy's right that this makes LLMs the best steel-manning tool ever built. Every founder, PM, and strategist should be running their strongest conviction through "now argue the opposite" before they ship anything. The model that just spent 4 hours perfecting your argument knows exactly where it's weakest.

The failure mode is clear: 99% of people never run the second prompt.

[Peeyush @peeyush]

Breaks my heart if true. There has been no better time for builders and this is the greatest tech company of all times we saw grow in front of our eyes. How come it has come to that?

[Deedy @deedydas]

Google Senior Staff Engineer to me: “Yeah, I have no clue what Claude Code / Codex is but I hear it’s all the rage.

No, I don’t really care, I just need GOOG to hit $400 and keep this job for 2-3 more years so I can retire!”

[Peeyush @peeyush]

Sorry for the incomprehensible meme if you do not know Hindi, but it was too hard to pass on the latest trend sweeping the largest education market in the world :)

[Peeyush @peeyush]

Stop blaming the screen for AI brain rot. Blame the software.

At Fermi, 100% of regular users got better mastery. Why? Because we kept the friction in. True engagement requires "productive struggle." If AI is just a shortcut to finish faster, cognitive capabilities tank.

https://t.co/iPRp9YQeUJ

[Peeyush @peeyush]

If you want to have fun, make Opus4.6 drive the Gemini 3 Flash model ona task. The amount of complaining Opus does about Gemini Flash about how it skips instructions is unbelievable. What is even funnier is that after the context compacts it forgets which of the models did what but it keeps attributing every past error to Gemini Flash. Some deep biases in the evals somewhere? or is it a whole new style of marketing :)

[Peeyush @peeyush]

If you are an operator, and you are not at times thinking "I am addicted to this" these days, you are doing it wrong. And if you have caught yourself thinking that, you know what I am talking about :)

[Peeyush @peeyush]

Best part is I don’t need to read this - just need to tell my openclaw to do this for me .. for itself, I mean

[Heinrich @arscontexta]

https://t.co/JnIR1JG33B

[Peeyush @peeyush]

This is nothing. At Fermi we are removing all distinctions between who can code and who cannot. We are building a team that operates like how companies of AI age would. Coding is just a mechanism, if you can dream big reach out to us. @fermi_ai

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The best products in the world will be built by those who fully use the tools like Claude Code and Codex to their absolute max. You can ship 100k LOC production quality code today with the right prompting that can scale up to full webscale overnight.

We want to work with you.

[Fermi @fermi_ai]

Excited to share that Fermi AI won "Trailblazing Edtech Solution Award" at #WESDubai 2026.

We build to empower educators, keeping learning at the centre of everything we create.

#WESDubai #K12Education #FutureOfLearning #GlobalEducation #AIinEducation #STEMLearning

[Fermi @fermi_ai]

Thrilled to be #3 in EdTech this week, ahead of Microsoft, Canva & Turnitin! https://t.co/Mwv50BtXOw helps students think, reason & master STEM, no shortcuts, just deep learning. 

Check out the feature here: https://t.co/4FriNqFvF4

#AIinEducation  #PersonalizedLearning #FermiAI

[Peeyush @peeyush]

@joshwoodward @GeminiApp You know what would be even more helpful :) .. using @fermi_ai to go solve these tough JEE questions, and know where you are tripping up and what you need to practice more.. students are using Fermi to try these JEE problem sets, making it easier to crack these tough nuts..

[Peeyush @peeyush]

you don't need a time machine, you can still try out your chops at JEE questions, like I did this morning, with
@fermi_ai -- students use it to solve the questions
@GeminiApp generates and see where they can do better...

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

If I could turn back time.... excited for SATs last week and JEE Main this week in Gemini at no cost!

[Peeyush @peeyush]

@sundarpichai lol @sundarpichai you can still try out your chops at JEE questions, like I did this morning, with @fermi_ai -- students use it to solve the questions @GeminiApp generates and see where they can do better...

[Peeyush @peeyush]

@JeffDean But to make best use of these tests, you need to get better at solving those questions :) and @fermi_ai is the AI tutor to help you get better by making you learn.. check out https://t.co/MJtT8c04Fc

[Peeyush @peeyush]

Full length JEE tests are here. But to make best use of these tests, you need to get better at solving those questions :) and @fermi_ai is the AI tutor you need, to help you get better at JEE.. check out https://t.co/MJtT8c04Fc

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

🇮🇳 Good morning India! A lot of you asked for full-length mock JEE Main tests in @GeminiApp at no cost - done! Good luck on your prep!

Last week, SAT. This week, JEE.

What other global exams would be most helpful?

[Peeyush @peeyush]

At the BETT conference last week, the engagement you see was not for prizes. Not for scores. Just for the joy of solving one more problem. It was competitive — but in the best way. Curious. Supportive. Energizing.

That’s the magic we’re chasing. When learning becomes something you want to do more of. No AI driven shortcuts. Just momentum.

[Fermi @fermi_ai]

Watching them lean in, pick up the stylus, engage in productive struggle, try again, and smile when things clicked was a reminder of what we’re really building. 
Not shortcuts. Not answers.
Just the love of learning, and the confidence to tackle harder problems.
#LearningisFermi

[Peeyush @peeyush]

We will be there. And are excited to show you what future of learning could look like.

Hard things are worth learning. We make them easier. Come see how.

[Fermi @fermi_ai]

The biggest EdTech conference is focused on AI, but we aren't hearing enough on the hard questions. How do we prevent cheating? Ensure critical thinking? Measure genuine understanding? Let's talk substance. Find us at Booth SR56 at #BettUK2026.