Ankit Shankar

Hacker; Palantir; Georgia Tech

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

@kenwheeler Yeah

https://t.co/ydSmQCD7kR

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

My wife had appendicitis and was stuck waiting in the emergency department for 8 hours. Her appendix burst and she got sepsis.

Ended up fine, but at what point is it negligence to not use the software that reduces wait times and halves sepsis deaths?

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

My wife had appendicitis and was stuck waiting in the emergency department for 8 hours. Her appendix burst and she got sepsis.

Ended up fine, but at what point is it negligence to not use the software that reduces wait times and halves sepsis deaths?

[Chad Wahlquist @chadwahl]

“Nearly 900 lives have been saved at Tampa General Hospital in Florida in the four years since it introduced the “game-changing” Sepsis Hub system, developed in partnership with Palantir.”

[Chad Wahlquist @chadwahl]

“Nearly 900 lives have been saved at Tampa General Hospital in Florida in the four years since it introduced the “game-changing” Sepsis Hub system, developed in partnership with Palantir.”

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

@mindthelongterm HA @chadwahl I'm gonna send you this all the time

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

AIP Evolve can help you decide.

It builds on all the other AIP primitives: AI FDE generating Evals, using observability metrics, rearchitecting as necessary to hit your objective.

https://t.co/KK5iBHw9ho

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

AIP Evolve — our new product for making agents more efficient and cost effective.

See how Chad and Colton used it to autonomously swap models, tune prompts, validate outputs, and find structured ontology data that eliminated 2 LLM calls; cutting compute costs while improving accuracy and reliability in production.

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

1. Make it work
2. Make it good

Did you do (1) with whatever the latest model is? Could it be 10x better? Could it be 10x faster?

[NVIDIA @nvidia]

Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra.

A frontier smart open model built for long-running agents that need to plan, reason, use tools and keep working across complex coding, research and enterprise workflows.

Up to 5x faster inference and up to 30% lower cost for agentic tasks.

Learn more: https://t.co/h9XLqqYPFf

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

Definitely worth going through the tutorials still! The best users of AI FDE have an opinion of what they want - this lets them steer AI FDE best.

(Of course, AI FDE can also help you explore the ideas and different ways of building things, but having the experience is always helpful)

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

Strongly recommend this defence of the FDP from someone who really knows what they’re talking about.

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

@chadwahl @fabianstelzer Stop building meme replies during our meeting Chad

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

@wangerj3nny This is also a good lesson in git / GitHub - any one can commit as any username. Unless it's a verified commit, there is no proof that it is you. The ones on this crypto scam are fake.

This is why we use commit signing at Palantir. 🫡 to @mlosap and the incredible infosec team!

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

@wangerj3nny No, this is a scam.

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

You may have seen noise questioning whether the FDP is delivering.

Here is the answer - straight from NHS England - published today:

✅ 110,078 more patients operated on in theatres
✅ 297,943 patients discharged home sooner
✅ 15.3% reduction in unnecessary hospital days
✅ 6.8% faster cancer diagnosis

These results belong to the NHS and its patients.

Palantir simply built the platform that makes the data work.

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

110,078

That is the number of additional operations the NHS just delivered using the Federated Data Platform.

Not a forecast. Not a pilot.

Official @NHSEngland data published today.

While the noise continues, the software works.

Thread 👇

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Forward deployed engineering is no longer limited to humans.

At DevCon 5, Palantir Software Engineers Ankit Shankar and Colton Rusch demonstrate new AI FDE capabilities to write AIP Logic functions, author evals, and safely debug in a branch-aware, continuous loop.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

DevCon 5 was about putting new products and capabilities in the hands of builders.

We showed the latest releases — across AI FDE, Orchestrator, Ontology Foundations, the revamped Developer Experience, and more.

Then, builders got to work.

[Ted Mabrey @MabreyTed]

Former hobbits. If you have ever considered returning to Palantir, this is the week to do it. The world is demanding every last unit of creative energy we can muster. If you return, you will be on a plane day one and committing code that matters within hours of getting your laptop. From the foxhole to the factory floor the surface area to support something incredibly meaningful, immediately, is immense. I promise you nothing other than the sense of satisfaction that comes from the purpose and intensity of the most intense deployments you ever worked on. If you have been chasing that spark, come find it again. The shire is calling.

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

@rish404 That one I already knew about, but high quality, on-device STT is HUGE

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

WHAT.

[Rish Agarwal @rish404]

@nicoalbanese10 There actually already is. It's called Apple Speech Analyzer

[Ankit Shankar @thelastnode]

@JsonBasedman You should ask it to use it's context cleanup tool if you run into context issues. Sub-agents is architecturally supported, but might not be necessary for what you're doing!