Rhythm Panchal @rhythmpanch_ - Twitter Profile

A pretty unexpected life update: A few days before my Ramp Applied AI internship was supposed to start, I made the difficult decision to step away and join @tryreplicas as CTO in the current YC P26 batch. This was honestly one of the hardest career decisions I’ve made. Ramp is one of my favorite companies in tech, and every interaction I had with the team reinforced that. The people, culture, and engineering quality there are genuinely exceptional. I also want to emphasize the immense respect I have for the Applied AI team and the work they’re doing around Glass, Inspect, and agentic systems more broadly. Watching companies like Ramp push forward on background agents and self-maintaining software has completely changed how I think about the future of engineering. What ultimately solidified the decision was realizing that @connortbot and I share the same vision for where software is heading. We’ve worked together before, and joining him as co-founder felt like a natural fit. I believe the future of software is persistent background agents that can reason, investigate, write code, debug systems, and continuously improve autonomously, dramatically amplifying what small teams can build. Excited for what’s next :)

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@adiprasadd #stopthe08slander

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@ericzxchen @UWaterloo BIG CONGRATULATIONS

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@ericzxchen @UWaterloo cs all the way

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average uw cs kids

Arav Mathur

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GrayPass is live and deployed across 3 countries. We're backed $150K by 1517 and Boost VC to eliminate standard auth forever. Just hit our first $1k in revenue last month. If your company wants to start using invisible auth, DM me!!

aravmathur23's tweet photo. GrayPass is live and deployed across 3 countries.

We're backed $150K by 1517 and Boost VC to eliminate standard auth forever.

Just hit our first $1k in revenue last month.

If your company wants to start using invisible auth, DM me!! https://t.co/Nb9Yx6fy38

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Arav Mathur

@aravmathur23

about 1 month ago

GrayPass is live and deployed across 3 countries. We're backed $150K by 1517 and Boost VC to eliminate standard auth forever. Just hit our first $1k in revenue last month. If your company wants to start using invisible auth, DM me!!

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@michael_mzl uhhh maybe or maybe not 🫩either way beat the competition for me at uw if im not there

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my friend said he got the new Airpods Pro…

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Reese Chong

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Behind the scenes of mni-ml: January 4th 2026 - my roommate @MankyDankyBanky and I wanted to do a big project together. ”maybe we should try to build pytorch from scratch” We found @srush_nlp's minitorch curriculum and committed to grinding through it Jan to April. February - autodiff and tensor internals done. lots of late night PR reviews, stacked diffs, Kinton ramen runs to Toronto when I'd visit Aadi at Shopify. We started posting on X to keep ourselves accountable. March - the month of parallelization: Aadi shipped tiled matmul using the same algo @nvidia teaches in their CUDA guide, wrapped by end of month - pooling, conv1d/2d forward+backward, softmax, dropout. March 22-23 — @socraticainfo symposium & we see the tinytpu team on the stage which filled us with determination 🫡 cc: @evanliin @XanderChin @suryasure05 @kennykgguo March 24 - chose the mni-ml brand and started the educational blog March 30 - minitorch is DONE ahead of schedule. now we build on top of the framework. April 5-6 - cuBLAS matmul via koffi FFI. buffer pooling, strided batched GEMM, kernel optimizations. CUDA backend takes shape. April 7 - huge day. cross-platform CI pipeline, prebuilt npm binaries, v0.3.0 — CUDA live on @npmjs. flatten the monorepo, add @WebGPU + Windows CUDA build targets by eod. April 12 - flash attention CUDA kernel ships. we caught a bug where head dim > 32 was truncating. April 14 (during exam season), we recorded the demo in @Shopify recording studio during Aadi’s lunch break. Everything over the last 4mo finally came together. Cc: @fnthawar @tobi @alspee April 17: launch post and bought the domain https://t.co/NQaGnIFVAO and we’re just getting started. We have so much in store for this summer, stay tuned 🫡 cc: @sundeep @GavinSherry