Kiran Kumar

Architect @phonepe.

previously @uber @flipkart @myntra |

[Malavika @viksmals]

As a big fan of the pink flower blooms in Bengaluru, I try to click pictures of these trees wherever I spot them. In that journey, I got curious and did a little research and plotted it on a map. There are around 27k tabebuia rosea trees in Bangalore currently.

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

@Airtel_Presence Done. DMed

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

@airtelindia your broadband is the worst. Continues to be down from 5 days, even after being an airtel black customer.
Location: shriram chirping woods, Bangalore
Your so called technicians are pulling out fibre from existing connections/ ports to satisfy new ones.

[Tony Zhao @tonyzzhao]

Today, we present a step-change in robotic AI @sundayrobotics.

Introducing ACT-1: A frontier robot foundation model trained on zero robot data.

- Ultra long-horizon tasks
- Zero-shot generalization
- Advanced dexterity

🧵->

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

@ravinjain @airindia I think it landed due to a medical emergency of one passenger.

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

@airindia 23 Jun 2025, 9 PM (PDT)

[Rahul Chari @rahulchari9]

With our continued focus on automation, the @PhonePe SRE team recently automated the entire flow for rolling upgrades to Elasticsearch. With each node approximately at 2.5TB and clusters of 400 to 500 nodes, a single cluster can be more than 1 petabyte. Add to that multiple clusters across datacenters for redundancy and the problem of upgrades becomes a massive undertaking . Here is an insightful blog on how PhonePe SREs automated this entire flow, helping us eliminate downtime and reduce upgrade times from 10 hours to 4 - 6 hours with minimal involvement by an engineer for not more than 30 mins
https://t.co/ffvOVLGyvO

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

Support this guy. He's our saviour.

[St. Broseph @St_Brosephs]

If you have courage, fix India.

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

@kunalchourasia @YouTube I use shorts in spite of being Premium.
It's like the Twitter of YouTube, short and crisp. But I don't know why they recommend totally random shit via shorts, but not so much in long form.

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

Feature request for @YouTube

Automatically turn on captions if phone volume is set to zero

Could be due to DND/Silent mode

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

I wonder what prevents the car manufacturers from building a good key for premium models, if it's just 50$ more.

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

Today I learned that there is a company called "keydroid", who make your regular car keys look very BMW-like.

They pick your car keys, pop it open, and solder it into another smart key and send it back to you.

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

If AliExpress was to be opened back up in India, half of these resellers would just shut the shop.

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

With this update, Tesla FSD might actually work well in India too.
Truly next level stuff !

[ΛI DRIVR @AIDRIVR]

FSD 13 is “~500% better” than current versions, but take that with a grain of salt

I believe this is in regard to “critical” interventions where a takeover is absolutely needed (doesn’t even need to safety related). For example, in current versions it is usually “critical” that you take over to park at the destination (@BLKMDL3 didn’t even count these as interventions in his drives, but Tesla might count this as a critical intervention for unsupervised)

I don’t expect many of the issues we’re currently seeing to vanish as soon as V13 is here, but I do expect the car to be able to have a chance at driving from point A to B doing ALL necessary maneuvers (backing out of parking spaces, finding parking at the end of destination, getting itself “unstuck” by reversing, etc) without ever touching the wheel or doing any manual inputs

V13 will be the first “feature complete” FSD version, meaning the car can do all driving maneuvers. doesn’t mean it will be perfect, but I could definitely see a ~500% improvement in the amount of times human input is required even with just reverse and parking / unparking ability

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

I heard that @RanaDaggubati's family owns a house there.

Another reason is that it's just 200 villas in 275 acres. You're paying for more than an acre.

[Gaurav Gupta | Realtor @GauravGupta_RE]

20 Crores can't buy you anything better! Prestige Golfshire Bangalore. End of discussion.

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

@TeamYouTube Thank you

"Don’t play music videos" - setting did not work for music videos

Surprisingly "Don’t play podcast videos" worked.

[Kiran Kumar @thekirankumar]

How does one disable videos on the YouTube music app?

None of the settings work for me.