Umang Chauhan

Strategy • Design • Innovate | Disrupting fashion commerce

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

I was scared but the people showed up!

Hosted my first networking event in Tokyo, 50 signs ups, 25 invitees, 3 hours.

Massive learnings.

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

Going on my first solo trip ever, to Europe!

Catch me in Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Berlin, Prague next 2 weeks.

Gonna lock in and make some IG content ✅

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

AI already is fooling us but the discussion in Tokyo @runwayml Meetup was about how the new normal is Hybrid videos with AI.

@c_valenzuelab said it best, we are already there!

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

@Kulfei Japan also doesn’t do paper certificates on most trains its just a webpage stating the delay now.

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

@kevinclark Having a perfectly marketable website, domain and marketing strategy and calling it a personal fun project is diabolical. Definitely hours of development went into this even with all the AI out here.

Anyways awesome app would love to use it 🤭

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

As a Product Manager don’t sign up for courses teaching this:

[Puneet Patwari @system_monarch]

As an AI Engineer. Please learn:

-Prompt caching & semantic caching tradeoffs
-KV cache management at scale
-Speculative decoding vs quantization
-RAG evaluation (RAGAS + human evals)
-Cost monitoring & hidden token leaks
-Agent guardrails & infinite loop detection

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

Tokyo Pickleball comes nowhere near NYC but the calmness just wins every time!

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

Hosted Network Lab Tokyo #2 last night.

15 people. Tiny cafe in Shibuya. No slides. No pitches.
We argued about which apps shouldn't exist anymore. Where to invest during a war economy. What to actually build with AI.

The best networking events don't feel like networking events.

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

Companies aren’t really using AI yet.” Wrong.

Startups build in the open. Corporates deploy behind closed doors.

Both are moving way faster than you think.

Great conversations at LeadAI Global Tokyo on AI hardware, voice AI, and Japan’s design DNA. 🇯🇵

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

This is gonna change the viewpoint like crazy! #ClaudeCodeLeaked

[Chaofan Shou @Fried_rice]

Claude code source code has been leaked via a map file in their npm registry!

Code: https://t.co/jBiMoOzt8G

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

@janwhyy @theleague Felt like just another vibe coded app tbh! DM for the referral.

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

@Kenu73 My sister got a 5yr multi entry Japan tourist visa with just 2-3 asian country history recently.

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

Whats the best vibe coding tool in terms of value for money? Just Indian things about kitna dega (mileage)!

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

@harnidhish Exactly like Product Managers, sometimes they are running the show, sometimes just managing meetings 🫣

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

Happy Holi to all AI agents and folks getting replaced by them.

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

That's not a setback. That's the curriculum.

If you're standing at the top of something right now, overthinking your next move:
Stand up. Go down.

The mountain doesn't get smaller by waiting.
♻️ Repost if someone needs to hear this today.

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

The best career advice I ever got came from a snowboarding instructor who spoke 4 words. 🧵

[Umang Chauhan @thisUmang]

Every breakthrough followed the same pattern:
Try. Fall. Learn something you couldn't learn any other way.

No amount of tutorials replaces the first fall. No amount of case studies replaces a failed launch. No amount of networking replaces a cold pitch that gets ignored.

The real learning starts the moment you stop preparing and start moving.