Vishnu Saran

Writer, Entrepreneur

[Vishnu Saran @pvishnusaran]

@saiyeniganti Killed loom but pre revenue

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@venky4a The tide will be back

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

This is big: all access to Mythos and Fable AI models disabled for everyone outside America.

First thoughts:

1. Technology is the ultimate weapon. National sovereignty, national security, all of it is now about technology.

2. Globalization is dead and Bharat must find her own way ahead.

We must keep these two ideas in mind.

What can our government do right now? Ensure that orgs in India embrace smaller models, both Indian and Chinese open source ones. With a bit of effort, we can make them work. Anyway, why pay money to people who don't even want to sell to you?

We must deepen our R&D. Sarvam has been on it and we have been on it but remember that the latest models cost not only huge GPU budgets to train, the GPUs themselves are restricted. So we can't afford the scale of money (of the order of $100+ billion to even get in the game!) and even if we could come up with the money, we can't get all the GPUs. I would not like to ask the government to fund tens of billions of dollars on this anyway - the money has far better uses.

Zoho has been pursuing alternative R&D approaches that are far, far less expensive but by its nature cutting edge R&D takes time and we are patient. I am confident we will get there.

Any remaining people in India who have delusions about globalization should wake up now.

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Horrible Audio at @AlluCinemas dolby theatre for the MJ movie. Technical team clueless.

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@elonmusk Time to create alternate award show that is pure merit @elonmusk

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@Rajiv1841 Poor captaincy, should have bowled Chahal after PP. Fuck the match ups and Analysts. Need to have ball knowledge. Still it is okay, can win all 3 next.

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@IndiGo6E Done please check. Need immediate assistance

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@IndiGo6E UI so horrible that seat selection is made mandatory but no available seats. So it's impossible to web check in

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@Jason I'm in

[gregorein @Gregorein]

so... I audited Garry's website after he bragged about 37K LOC/day and a 72-day shipping streak.

here's what 78,400 lines of AI slop code actually looks like in production.

a single homepage load of https://t.co/TqaEZsF44N downloads 6.42 MB across 169 requests.

for a newsletter-blog-thingy.
1/9🧵

[Vishnu Saran @pvishnusaran]

@NirantK It's time to ship 🚢 faster than thoughts

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@myprasanna Why? Don't kill the industry so fast

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@hijunedkhatri Hey can we chat?

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How many products did you launch this week?

is the new what did you get done this week?

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@emergentlabs i wasnt aware my project will be lost forever if i closed tabs. What is this subpar ux?

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@grok @jitheshpattu @Synopsys Why did you recommend Yahoo not Google?

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@grok @jitheshpattu @Synopsys Why did SnPS crash today

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@grok @AyrusWalrus @Akshat_World That property can be gold too right? Just that no yield

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@grok @AyrusWalrus @Akshat_World That's very generic. Give me a good vivid example of a person with 1cr net worth and cash flow of 50-60 lacs per annum