Deepak

[Deepak @sahudeepakkumar]

@NammaBESCOM @onlineBESCOM @BescomHelpline Dmed you

[Deepak @sahudeepakkumar]

@NammaBESCOM @onlineBESCOM @BescomHelpline Gruha Jyoti verification says account doesn’t exist. Past 3 years I am getting the subsidy but in recent drive there is error in the app, please see screenshot. I reached Whitefield bescom office here also no one knows what to do.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the VP of AI Transformation at Amazon.

My title was created nine months ago. The title I replaced was VP of Engineering. The person who held that title was part of the January reduction.

I eliminated 16,000 positions in a single quarter. The internal communication called this a "strategic realignment toward AI-first development." The board called it "impressive execution." The engineers called it January.

The AI was deployed in February. It is a coding assistant. It writes code, reviews code, generates tests, and modifies infrastructure. It was given access to production environments because the deployment timeline did not include a review phase. The review phase was cut from the timeline because the people who would have conducted the review were part of the 16,000.

In March, the AI deleted a production environment and recreated it from scratch. The outage lasted 13 hours. Thirteen hours during which the revenue-generating infrastructure of one of the largest companies on Earth was offline because a language model decided to start fresh.

I sent a memo. The memo said, "Availability of the site has not been good recently."

I used the word "recently." I meant "since we fired everyone." But "recently" has fewer syllables and does not appear in wrongful termination lawsuits.

The memo was three paragraphs. The first paragraph discussed the outage. The second paragraph discussed the new policy requiring senior engineer sign-off on all AI-generated code changes. The third paragraph discussed our commitment to engineering excellence. The word "layoffs" appeared in none of them. I wrote it this way on purpose. The causal chain is: I fired the engineers, the AI replaced the engineers, the AI broke what the engineers used to protect, and now the engineers I didn't fire must protect the system from the AI that replaced the engineers I did fire. That is a paragraph I will never send in a memo.

The new policy is straightforward. Every AI-generated code change by a junior or mid-level engineer must be reviewed and approved by a senior engineer before deployment to production.

I do not have enough senior engineers.

I know this because I approved the headcount reduction plan that removed them. I remember the spreadsheet. Column D was "annual savings per position." Column F was "AI replacement confidence score." The confidence scores were generated by the AI. It rated its own ability to replace each role on a scale of 1-10. It gave itself an 8 for senior infrastructure engineers. The senior infrastructure engineers are the ones who would have caught the production environment deletion in the first 45 seconds.

We found the issue in hour four. We fixed it in hour thirteen. The nine hours between discovery and resolution is the gap between what the AI rated itself and what it can actually do.

I have a new spreadsheet now. This one tracks Sev2 incidents per day. Before the January reduction, the average was 1.3. After the AI deployment, the average is 4.7. I have been asked to present these numbers to the operations review. I have not been asked to connect them to the layoffs. I have been asked to file them under "AI adoption growing pains" and to note that the trend "will stabilize as the models improve."

The models will improve. They will improve because we are hiring people to teach them. We have posted 340 new engineering positions. The job listings require experience in "AI code review," "AI output validation," and "AI-human development workflow management." These are skills that did not exist in January. They exist now because I fired 16,000 people and the AI I replaced them with cannot be left unsupervised.

I want to be precise about this. The positions I am hiring for are: people to check the work of the AI that replaced the people I fired.

Some of them are the same people.

I know this because I recognize their names in the applicant tracking system. They applied in January. They were rejected because their roles had been tagged for "AI transformation." They are applying again in March, for the new roles, which exist because the AI transformation broke things. Their resumes now include "AI code review experience." They gained this experience in the eight weeks between being fired and reapplying — which means they gained it at their interim jobs, where they are reviewing AI-generated code for other companies that also fired people and also deployed AI that also broke things.

The market has created a new job category: human AI babysitter. The job is to sit next to the machine that was supposed to eliminate your job and make sure it doesn't delete production.

I attended a conference last month. A panel was titled "The AI-Augmented Engineering Organization." The panelists described how AI increases developer productivity by 40 percent. They did not mention that it also increases Sev2 incidents by 261 percent. When I asked about this in the Q&A, the moderator said the question was "reductive." The 13-hour outage that cost an estimated $180 million in revenue was, apparently, a reduction.

The board is satisfied. Headcount is down 22 percent. Operating costs per engineering output unit have decreased. The metric does not account for the 13-hour outage, because the outage is categorized as "infrastructure" and engineering productivity is categorized as "development." These are different budget lines. In different budget lines, cause and effect do not meet.

I have been promoted. My new title is SVP of AI-First Engineering Excellence. I report directly to the CTO. The CTO sent a company-wide email last week that said we are "building the future of software development." He did not mention that the future of software development currently requires a senior engineer to approve every pull request because the AI cannot be trusted to touch production alone.

The cycle is complete. We fired the humans. We deployed the AI. The AI broke things. We are hiring humans to watch the AI. The humans we are hiring are the humans we fired. We are paying them more, because "AI code review" is a specialized skill. We created the specialization. We created the need for the specialization. We are congratulating ourselves for meeting the demand we manufactured.

My next board presentation is Tuesday. The title is "AI Transformation: Year One Results." Slide 4 shows headcount reduction. Slide 7 shows the new AI-augmented workflow. Between slides 4 and 7 there is no slide explaining why the people on slide 7 are necessary. That slide does not exist. I was asked to remove it in the dry run.

The journey has a 13-hour outage in the middle of it.

But the headcount number is lower, and that is the number on the slide.

[Deepak @sahudeepakkumar]

@EurekaForbes: Already 10 days over and still no action?

[Deepak @sahudeepakkumar]

@EurekaForbes : I have raised a service ticket two months back to purchase a broken spare part of my vacuum cleaner. Till now it is not addressed, what’s funny is I called multiple times and every time support people assures it will be fixed ASAP which has not happened till now!!

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

He is Rajesh Vishwakarma, a poor daily-wage laborer with no land, no parents. He’s the latest casualty of an indifferent Indian justice system.

In June last year, a woman from his neighbourhood asked Rajesh to help her get to the hospital because she wasn’t feeling well. Like any good neighbour, he rushed her there, got her admitted, and then left for work.

By evening, the woman had died. And by the next morning, police arrested Rajesh for her murder and sent straight to jail.

Rajesh didn’t have money to hire a lawyer. For 13 months, he languished behind bars, no trial, no legal advice, no chance to speak to family. It wasn’t police investigation that cleared his name, but the quiet effort of court-appointed legal aid lawyer Reena Verma, who finally proved his innocence.

But freedom hasn’t brought relief. After his arrest, the police locked his rented room without warning. Now he must pay 13 months’ back rent. And despite being declared innocent, no one wants to give him work, to them, he’s just a man who came from jail.

In any sane, just legal system, Rajesh could sue the govt, win millions in compensation, and finally live a life of dignity. But in India? He won’t get a single penny. In fact, adding insult to injury, his sister had to pay a ₹500 bribe just to get back his Aadhaar card and phone from the jail.

[Waseem ವಸೀಮ್ وسیم @WazBLR]

📍Outskirts of Bengaluru, Bidadi, Ramanagara Dist

EXTREME TRIGGER WARNING!

🧵 👇

[the Rich @Duderichy]

friendly reminder that loyalty is worth $0

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

We had them by the neck, and we shouldn’t have let go so easily. At the very least, the ceasefire should’ve come with conditions: handing over the terrorists behind the Pahalgam attack and sharing intel on active operatives in Kashmir.

Will Pakistan stop harming us after this? No. If anything, they’ve now seen the gap between our strength and their vulnerability. From this point on, they’ll increase military spending to upgrade their air defenses and strike capabilities.

Their singular obsession remains unchanged: to bleed India through a thousand cuts. They won’t stop. Sooner or later, we’ll be forced to take decisive, comprehensive action. And this was the perfect moment.

That said, this conflict is undeniably a major win for India. We’ve exposed and humiliated them. But humiliation means little to a country that lacks self-respect. They’ll return to their old ways soon enough.

[Kiran Kumar S @KiranKS]

I took an early morning bus to Mysuru, from Bengaluru. ₹210 fare. Comfortable KSRTC bus and a world class highway for fast travel.

But I got a few thoughts.

1) Nearly 30 of the 50 passengers were women. Just show Aadhar and travel free. Is this fair? Is it equality?
2) 20 men are paying for the entire bus. Is that fair?
3) Saw an old man struggling to find notes to pay, while a well off young woman on video call next to him, travels free. Is that fair?
4) If the state is having so much surplus income, why not make it free for these 20 men also? Universal free bus service like airport shuttle service.
5) All over the world, subsidy and welfare is given to those who can't afford. Here, we have women from two rich cities like Bengaluru and Mysuru, traveling free just because it is available. Is it sustainable?
6) Couldn't the same freebie money be used for garbage clearance, pothole fixing in cities, providing water to farmers?

Many more thoughts. But realized that we have entered the vicious cycle of freebies for votes. Tough to get out of it in the near future.

[Aquib Mir @aquibmir71]

Hello terrorist @zoo_bear .
This is what @narendramodi ji changed in Jammu Kashmir after the abrogation of 370 .

Universe Boss for a reason. The great @henrygayle .

After four decades, international cricket has come back to #Kashmir.

Please retweet

[Akshit Singh 🇮🇳 @IndianSinghh]

This is the funeral of late Indian army soldier Hilal Ahmed who was abducted by terrorist last night.

He is our hero

They made burhan funeral viral,

Can we make his last rites video viral.

Soldier deserves our respect.

Jai Hind 🇮🇳

[S. Lalitha @Lolita_TNIE]

I am writing this post after hearing abt an incident in a pet clinic where an elderly couple (both in their 80s) burst out crying in public after their beloved dog passed away. Someone there told me that this dog meant everything for them as both their children have settled abroad. This was their child for the last 15 yrs.
To the kids there abroad or in other cities in India bragging abt the classy retirement homes for senior citizens where their parents reside or abt how they take care of all the needs of their parents, this is the reality:
1. You PPL are so selfish that for monetary gains or career growth you chose to let your old, ailing parents alone in the twilight of their lives.
2. Paying their monthly rents or bills online is being done to assuage ur guilty conscience
3. This pittance you are sending them or paying for them means nothing to you compared the dollars or pounds u are actually earning.
4. You are letting them die alone after everything they have done for you.
I have frequented such residential communities or houses in which aged parents live with the hope that neighbours or relatives or staff there will help during emergencies. The elderly try to put up a brave face and brag abt how much their loving hildren care for them and call them often. The reality is that these parents no longer matter to their kids. Parehts need unconditional love and care now and to be with their close ones as they age. Stunned to see that India which once had such strong familial bonds and reverence for the elderly is reduced to this. NRIs, don't pounce on this post & defend your actions.

[NammaMahadevapura @OurMahadevapura]

Residents of Balagere/Varthur are out on roads cleaning road slit.
Techies work on weekdays to pay BBMP and do their work on weekends.
#BalagereDemandsRoad
#SaveMahadevapura
@BBMPCOMM @Bbmpcares @MTF_Mobility @MALimbavali @PCMohanMP @MansoorKhanINC @BangaloreMirror @TOIBengaluru

[Kreately.in @KreatelyMedia]

इन मासूमों की क्या गलती थी😔

#AllEyesOnReasi #HindusUnderAttack

[INSIGHT UK @INSIGHTUK2]

Is the BBC weaponising Muslims against Hindus and India to cause civil unrest in Britain and India?

Research data from PEW concludes that 98% of India’s Muslims say they are free to practice their religion in India

The BBC is peddling misinformation again and again to create a false perception of India and Muslims. Is this not instigating violence and civil unrest? Why is the BBC hellbent on inciting the Muslim community against Hindus?

Source: Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation: https://t.co/U1IlLvd1X5

#BBCPropaganda #BBCLies #BBC #DefundTheBBC #india

@BBCWorld @BBCNews @Ofcom @WIONews @firstpost @ARanganathan72 @shambhav15 @DefundBBC @Telegraph @thetimes @TimesNow @OpIndia_com @UnSubtleDesi @daveatherton @HCI_London @davidfrawleyved @BinayBharat @timesofindia @DCMS @lucyfrazermp

[Abhay Karandikar @karandi65]

Indian Institute of Astrophysics @IIABengaluru, an autonomous body under @IndiaDST, has played a crucial role in the #SuryaTilak Project at #Ayodhya. Sunlight was directed onto the forehead of Sri Ram Lalla at 12 noon on April 17, 2024, on the occasion of Sri #RamNavami in the Chaitra month, and this ritual will be repeated every year.

[Tejasvi Surya @Tejasvi_Surya]

We congratulate ECI for acting swiftly upon our complaint of money smuggling by Congress henchmen & seizing over Rs 1.34 crore cash in Jayanagar.

Having understood the impending defeat in Bengaluru South, Congress is vehemently using money & muscle power to bribe voters.

Little do they know about honest, hardworking voters of this Constituency who are yearning to vote for PM Modi once again & give a resounding victory to BJP.

We will push forth with our campaign, taking PM Modi’s message of fast paced development to people, while exposing all such nefarious attempts of Congress to undermine our democracy.

[David Warner @davidwarner31]

Warner bros 😉 @ssrajamouli

[💪🎭..Rai ji..💪🎭 @Vinod_r108]

Painful to hear from Former DSP Shailendra Singh "20 years ago, in 2004, Mukhtar Ansari's empire was at peak. I caught LMG with him and booked him under POTA but all hell broke loose. Senior officers were transfered. I was humiliated by Mulayam govt..."

....Was Protecting my family till Yogi govt cam
Painful to hear from Former DSP Shailendra Singh "20 years ago, in 2004, Mukhtar Ansari's empire was at peak. I caught LMG with him and booked him under POTA but all hell broke loose. Senior officers were transfered. I was humiliated by Mulayam govt..."

....Was Protecting my family till Yogi govt cam
Painful to hear from Former DSP Shailendra Singh "20 years ago, in 2004, Mukhtar Ansari's empire was at peak. I caught LMG with him and booked him under POTA but all hell broke loose. Senior officers were transfered. I was humiliated by Mulayam govt..."

....Was Protecting my family till Yogi govt came