Swaroop CH

Started GenAI Platform at DoorDash, including LLM inference, fine-tuning, evals, MCP, Agents, guardrails, RAG, etc.

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

@JayaGup10 Recommend @Nick_Locascio !

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

@akothari Thanks for the recommendation, started listening to it. Not the same genre, but related, have been listening to Armonian recently

https://t.co/ABTUeT34UV

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

Wow, @sivers saying "hell yeah" to Bengaluru!

I'm forever grateful to Derek for his writings and book recommendations.

I once emailed him asking about a book on marriage[^1] and he suggested the four horsemen [^2] which I promptly read and it became a landmark moment for me.

Thank you Derek, hope to meet you in my next trip home 🙏🏽

[^1]: books is my preferred medium of learning

[^2]: https://t.co/ThGcgYcRAS

[Derek Sivers @sivers]

People of India! My OCI + Airtel + HDFC has culminated in a massive achievement and rite of initiation. I have made my first UPI payment. I’m now unstoppable.

[Peter Ahnn @PeterAhnnDD]

Proud to have been a part of this effort! PLUS shows that optimized user summaries outperform vector embeddings and ICL for personalization and better align LLMs to real user diversity. This is one of the core ideas we’re exploring at DoorDash to drive AI-powered personalization.

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

Is this the day @benthompson / @stratechery says "I told you so" :)

(Mar 2025)
https://t.co/H2ovqwV02x

(Oct 2025)
https://t.co/VLDLYdvpA0

(Nov 2025)
https://t.co/hSVKDsiY9T

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

In the coming weeks, we plan to start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers.

We’re sharing our principles early on how we’ll approach ads–guided by putting user trust and transparency first as we work to make AI accessible to everyone.

What matters most:
- Responses in ChatGPT will not be influenced by ads.

- Ads are always separate and clearly labeled.

- Your conversations are private from advertisers.

- Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers will not have ads.

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

India’s highest-grossing animated film isn’t from a big studio or backed by sponsors. It was made in a tiny studio, funded over five gruelling years, including two COVID lockdowns.

Ashwin Kumar and his team risked everything — their savings, their home, even mortgaging it — to bring Mahavatar Narsimha to life.

“We heard ‘no’ from so many people,” Ashwin told Telugu FilmNagar.

“All our savings went into making this, and our home is leased. But we believed in the story and the animation. This is not a cartoon; it’s a universal film made for grown-ups too.”

Their goal was clear: to break the stereotype that Indian animation is only for kids.

Ashwin aimed to build India’s first animated cinematic universe, deeply rooted in our mythology and standing shoulder to shoulder with Disney and Marvel.

Mahavatar Narsimha has shattered expectations, beating Disney and Marvel films at the box office and crossing ₹200 crore worldwide.

It’s more than a hit — it’s a revolution for Indian animation and storytelling.

@AshwinKleem

#MahavatarNarsimha #AshwinKumar #Animation #Mythology #IndianCinema

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

My notes from the latest @karpathy talk https://t.co/G7No23dGQ5

- Software 1.0 = computer code programs computer
- Software 2.0 = weights programs neural net
- Software 3.0 = prompts programs LLM
- AI is the new electricity -- Andrew Ng
- LLM is the new OS
- Chat is the new terminal
- Cursor is the new app
- App/GUI = AI for generation, humans for verification ⇒ autonomy slider
- Decade of agents, not year of agents
- Code was easy part, web stack (auth, payments, domain) & deployment was the hard part
- Call to action: Build for agents
- e.g. from `robots.txt` to `llms.txt` ( https://t.co/azzFK6Xnnz )
- e.g. https://t.co/3lHkp5JZyj and https://t.co/7vwBftvFCt for context building

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

My 4 year old daughter's favorite album is "Rock On!" 🤯

Thank you @ShankarEhsanLoy @Javedakhtarjadu @FarOutAkhtar for such evergreen songs!

https://t.co/BbxhcVA9YX

#music

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

> In 2024, Python overtook JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub

https://t.co/G8DkLr7W4e

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

@nutanc @SwechaFSMI Wonderful, thanks for your initiative 👍🏾

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

Just subscribed to lifetime digital access to Amar Chitra Katha and @TinkleMagazine comics!

https://t.co/rznZuVdwgf

Having previously bought @calm lifetime subscription several years ago and still using it everyday, I'm sure my kids and I will enjoy this too!

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

We need an update to JWZ law 😄 [^1]:

“Every program attempts to expand until it can become @ChatGPTapp . Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

[^1]: https://t.co/DiepAp84sO

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

New blog post: Takeaways from Mastering LLMs Course

Thank you @HamelHusain & @dan_s_becker for this insightful course, *ahem*, conference!

https://t.co/sFrVUUEywz

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

@NirantK Q&A is already there

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

Fascinating talk by @dchaplot on background of @MistralAI models at the @anyscalecompute RAG bootcamp in SF #GenAI

[Swaroop CH @swaroopch]

Started reading the new Cal Newport book and already so many thoughts.

I really hope there's a sustainable alternative to "checking inbox every 6 minutes".

#slowproductivity