Ashutosh Srivastava

be your own cool
SWE @ Google
ex Microsoft Research | IIIT Hyderabad

[Ashutosh Srivastava @srivhash]

SWE Interviews are CONFUSING !!!

My latest Medium article 👉 “Cracking the Google Coding Interview: 3 Deep-Dive Problems and the STAR Framework That Landed the Offer [SWE][University Grad]” https://t.co/Yvh3X8pgbf

Apply for a referral to work at google https://t.co/9mJIxkc7FU

[Ashutosh Srivastava @srivhash]

@sharonnkv Your AI guy. ex research intern at MSR. Written code for papers. 1 accept at ICLR. 1 under submission at NeurIPS
https://t.co/aObE3NZZpI
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@gautam_jajoo @ycombinator Congrats

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@SakshiDanej High Protein low fat paneer from milky mist is really good. You can cut it into cubes and sorry for a quick snack

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@akshitwt Google also has a travel grant right?

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@fpdotmoney Do you need an intern sir?

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@Shalini70856041 tera google main nahi ho gaya tha?

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@Shalini70856041 @NoobCoderVibe apparently biggest google campus in asia will be in hyd!

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@Shalini70856041 @NoobCoderVibe food is good, lesser traffic, spent 4 years in college here. Hoping i get blr as loc for google 🤞

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@studmuffin_asr @TheFigen_ Unless the car accelerates rapidly while the man is in the air

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@Shalini70856041 Gachibowli has lots of PGs, especially near my college IIIT Hyderabad

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@AnandaniNisha yogistan, indiranagar

[Amit Sharma @amt_shrma]

Job Alert: @MSFTResearch India is hiring postdocs! A chance to work with some amazing colleagues while doing world-class research. Apply here: https://t.co/0bE1A8IGf2 DM me if interested in ML/reasoning/causality.

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@theharshithh note what?

[Harsh @theharshpat]

🇺🇸 i'm unemployed
🇮🇳 google developer student club

[Ashutosh Srivastava @srivhash]

@henrythe9ths AI Guide

[Henry Shi @henrythe9ths]

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really.

I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI.

But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone.

So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier.

✨ Here’s what I learned:
- You don’t need months (or years) to catch up.
- You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience.
- You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today.

It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant:
- ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old.
- Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication.

The biggest secret?
Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine).

I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start.

I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were:
- Curated list of only the most important papers
- Simple explanations of key concepts
- Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI

It’s perfect for:
- Founders expanding into AI
- Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI
- Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise

👇 Want the full guide?
- Like and Share this post
- Comment "AI Guide"
- I'll send you the complete guide

(ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

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@theharshithh lol

[Abhishek @HeyAbhishek]

Breaking 🚨

Google just announced Gemini’s AI Agents.

These AI "agents" operate on their own and complete tasks for you.

Here are incredible use cases already:

[Ashutosh Srivastava @srivhash]

2025 Goals

- Get an internship at a startup
- GSOC @ OSRE

- 3-4 Product hunt launches
- Start freelancing or a startup
- Cf specialist

- Lose 12 kgs for dream physique
- Limit sugar to once a week

- Go to therapy
- Read 1-2 books a week
- Spanish score of 40 on Duolingo