Ranbir Mahapatra

News junkie and DIY practitioner. Opinions my own.

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@litcapital @RoKhanna @mcuban Glad that I am not the only one with that thought. He is digging in deeper into the swamp of stupidity. My guess is he wants to ride the recent socialist wave.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

@RoKhanna @mcuban Why do we even need to have private companies? The government can invent iPhones and electric cars.

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@swyx This is a semi-cold recruiting email. Recruiters and founders should take note of the rich context Jared shares, how delicately he postulates Naom’s motivation, and how clear he is about his intent. Far cry from the sloppy recruiting emails prevalent in the market right now.

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@elonmusk I agree. @elonmusk factories (Tesla, SpaceX) epitomize gorgeous industrial design. Wonder who is their primary architect!

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@halvarflake My deepest condolences to you, Halvar.

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@paulg I had a similar experience with an online course. 10% thru, I couldn’t bear to do one more lesson. I started listening to the course at 1.75x-2x speed. Barreled thru the course by believing that I was learning something new and useful.

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@smolix @AnthropicAI Claude’s writing is becoming complex. And the sentence structure itself, including how it uses punctuations, is making reading laborious.

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@nazzari @speedrun Happy birthday, Bella!

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

#Jimothy makes his New York Times debut!

https://t.co/1ZzifDSr4h

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@jbrodley It can be argued that this seems inspired by the BMWE24 from yesteryears. That was a pretty car!

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@jasonfried Entry level premium car? The mystery and risk got to have a feel-good incentive!

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@QuinnyPig Now that I am building a product, I totally agree. Almost every service starts as an excel sheet with business value represented by relationships between the columns and cells. Lipstick on this excel sheet makes it consumer grade.

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@rabois All the AI labs building world models should train on Messi in action for rich datasets on spatial awareness. In those few seconds, he kicked the ball while being aware of 10 odd players.

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@davidfowl Same here. My friends have started calling me “Jim Cramer” - given that whatever I predict, the opposite is happening. 😢

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

Cutest post to wrap up the week!

[🇸🇦Ethan 💫 @3bdu11mohsen2]

عندما خاف اخو لامين يامال الصغير من شعر نيكو ويليامز 😭😭🇪🇸

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@SemiAnalysis_ $200/week is 4x the top subscription pricing from Claude and OpenAI. $800/month is a good cap that will push employees to be judicious about using the tools. I’m assuming for corp or team level shared tooling they have different budget?

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@BenVolin Chicago would have been a cool host city. But Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Mayor, pulled out of the bidding process. He had his reasons. Curious how LA and Seattle negotiated the operational load of hosting FIFA games.

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@samlambert But yeah - AI is real.

[Ranbir Mahapatra @ranbirnxt]

@samlambert In my experience, talented people who are not too dogmatic, readily change their position when presented with new data. As such, contrarians are incredible assets. In a team that’s all in on AI, they can bring a counter point.