Surya Jakhotia

Builder, Tinkerer, Insuretech, Dad

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

🚀 Team @UniBlox_io is unstoppable! Over the weekend, our engineers onboarded one more carrier to our platform - a massive feat of automation, strength and skill. Proud and excited for our future together! 🥂 #EngineeringExcellence #TeamUB #DreamTeam #Leadership

[Uniblox @UniBlox_io]

🚀 Big News! Our newest customer is ready to go live, and we’re launching with a pilot group on Monday! 🎉

Weekend plans? Setting up prod accounts, configuring machines, onboarding data, and more to ensure a smooth launch. Team Uniblox is all in! 💪

#GoLive #startuplife

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

@sridharfyi Reasonable living expenses, not market comp or prior lifestyle.

60–80k USD or 20–30L INR. Enough to avoid personal financial stress, but not cover a large EMI from before the startup.

The goal is to let founders focus, without burning runway unnecessarily.

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

Security reminder for engineering teams:

Avoid upgrading to mistralai==2.4.6; it has been compromised.

Also a good reminder to pin dependency versions intentionally and avoid broad auto-updates like ^ in production packages. Small hygiene steps reduce #supplychain risk.

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

What an incredible time to be alive! 30000 ft above sea level and working with 3 senior engineers who are writing features that our clients requested at conference and fix security issues in 3 separate windows #claude #ai #uniblox

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

Orlando airport is a mess #tsa #airportwait #orlando #orlandoairport

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

@Chase pitched us “startup friendly.” We banked with both @Chase & @mercury
3 yr+: we’ve moved more to @mercury (modern, predictable)
Then I discover @Chase has charged a $300/mo “Account Analysis” fee since 10/25 - no notice. No refund
Trust broken. No more of our business.

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

Couldn't agree more. Last 24 hours was me rewiring our operational stack with Opus. What would have been a 2 week or longer has been consolidated down to 24 hours. Organizations and teams that rewire to use AI first has a massive edge. #Builders #HolidayPlan

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

Should I respond?

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

Life has endless priorities—family, work, health, travel, fun.

The way I manage:
Conviction → Commitment → Discipline → Delivery.

Lose conviction, you drift.
Lose discipline, you stall.
Get them right, delivery follows.

https://t.co/KvTj5rmUt4

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

The first terawatt of solar was the hardest.

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

Music lovers will appreciate the craft behind the making Of 'Barbaad' With The Rish | Saiyaara | Jubin Nautiyal | Music Br... https://t.co/YpyX6c8HVu via @YouTube

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

Incredible win for #TeamIndia, @BCCI , excellent all round performance, kudos to @mdsirajofficial for playing your heart out. 5 tests, all lasting 5 days is a great ad for #Testcricket.

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

@levie @davemcclure What if the goal is to be less dependent on China? This is an interim pain before things stabilize and get better

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

10M context window is wild. You can literally prompt with your entire codebase now.

Vibe coding just got a massive upgrade.

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

Today is the start of a new era of natively multimodal AI innovation.

Today, we’re introducing the first Llama 4 models: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick — our most advanced models yet and the best in their class for multimodality.

Llama 4 Scout
• 17B-active-parameter model with 16 experts.
• Industry-leading context window of 10M tokens.
• Outperforms Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Mistral 3.1 across a broad range of widely accepted benchmarks.

Llama 4 Maverick
• 17B-active-parameter model with 128 experts.
• Best-in-class image grounding with the ability to align user prompts with relevant visual concepts and anchor model responses to regions in the image.
• Outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash across a broad range of widely accepted benchmarks.
• Achieves comparable results to DeepSeek v3 on reasoning and coding — at half the active parameters.
• Unparalleled performance-to-cost ratio with a chat version scoring ELO of 1417 on LMArena.

These models are our best yet thanks to distillation from Llama 4 Behemoth, our most powerful model yet. Llama 4 Behemoth is still in training and is currently seeing results that outperform GPT-4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.0 Pro on STEM-focused benchmarks. We’re excited to share more details about it even while it’s still in flight.

Read more about the first Llama 4 models, including training and benchmarks ➡️ https://t.co/9G3QgVdCkB
Download Llama 4 ➡️ https://t.co/eVomRvEr0w

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

FT takes up the topic: "Have humans passed peak brain power?"

https://t.co/ENQfExzBtz

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

2/ He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

1/ The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which.

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

@CorinneInTX @paulg Working in IT != Working in Tech. Try again

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

@Austen Like all things in life. Looking for validation of the above theory:

1. Product companies
2. IT shops

[Surya Jakhotia @suryaj]

@ElijahSchaffer Right. Your ignorance is just showing just like on the thread of pro/anti immigration