Rupesh mishra

Software Engineer | Center Rightist | Fact Checker | Procrastinator

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

Me: pre-approves delivery boy on @NoBrokerHood

NoBrokerhood: cool, now approve him again when he's actually at the gate!

The overhead of solving the overhead is still overhead.

#nobrokerhood #UX #ProductFail #NoBroker #Swiggy #TechProblems #IndianStartups #BuildBetter

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

@gharkekalesh That guy was like - "O Be***ch*d! Anushka hai ye toh!.. ye mereko bol rahi hai??? Waah yaar!"

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

@azizkavish Ye saal me ek baar hoti hai... Din ke 5 baar nahi.. kuch bulb jala?

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

I'm convinced India will never be able to compete with the US and China in technology if we keep treating it as a spectacle.
A bunch of influential folks are organising, Asia’s “largest AI event” in Mumbai later this month, and the speaker lineup has Bollywood celebrities, cricketers, and YouTube influencers. These are people who haven't written a single line of code in their lives.

A country doesn't become a technology leader through celebrity endorsements or political speeches. India will never be a technology powerhouse if we parade technology as an accessory. Real AI innovation doesn’t come from celebrity panels—it comes from builders. PhDs, engineers, founders—people who write code, build models, and deploy systems at scale.

The US and China didn’t lead in AI because of influencer summits. They did it through university labs, open-source contributions, and startup founders building from first principles. We need to build an ecosystem to listen and learn from builders.

Technology isn’t a spectator sport. If India wants to lead, we must put real builders at the center of the conversation.

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

I had an awful experience with @porterit_ today. Booked a movers & packers service from them and this is what they did on reaching the destination. Then forced me to pay.

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

@333maheshwariii Sexual wellness of women is a highly ignored subject in India. Fun fact is, a lot of men don't even know it exists for women too! Result? Extramarital affair! Men are to be blamed!

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

Breaking the Silence: My journey into understanding men's mental health. Check out my first blog post, where I dive into the importance of mental well-being and why it matters more than ever. #MentalHealthMatters #MenMentalHealth #BreakingStigmas
https://t.co/Be6LJayUJi

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

@elonmuskADO I always call it.. "Bitter"

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

@SwatiJh94959074 Thank you! Main bas movie dekhne ja hi raha tha... Bach gaya #sarcasm

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

Saying ❌ "Let's hope for the best" is pessimism in disguise.

Saying ✅ "Let's do our best" is proactive and motivating.

#improve #Motivation #TeamWork

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

@dominos_india I was charged twice for an order. first time the payment was deducted but the order was not placed. The second time it worked. but the first attempt money is not refunded yet. Please look into it.

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

@HomeCredit_In I received a SMS saying 'your Home Credit loan account is overdue by Rs. 79813'.
I dont have any loan from your company? If its a fraud please look into the matter immediately.

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

@amazonIN This is the second time my order was delivered to someone/somewhere else. For the last order, your team didn't do anything. So this time I'm raising it directly on twitter. Please DM me for the order IDs.

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

@amazonIN Order #408-6203384-6203554 was delivered to someone else. I raised a complaint but nothing has been done. Neither product was delivered to me nor money was refunded.

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

@twarnab @ShashiTharoor

[Hussein Nasser @hnasr]

How to Become a Good Backend Engineer (Fundamentals) https://t.co/e3zzMBJIwW

[aakash dubey @akaydubey]

#delhiearthquake
#earthquake
#भूकंप
earthquake in Delhi with a magnitude 5.7
- Visual animation of earthquakes recorded from 1901 to 2000

The size of the circle indicates the strength of the earthquake on the Richter scale, and the color indicates the depth of its origin.

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

Earthquake in noida #earthquake

[Rupesh mishra @rupesh88]

#dobaara is actually a good film.. @taapse and @anuragkashyap72 did a brilliant job.. all the haters can go f**k themselves.. Also, I'm a center rightist..Go figure!