Thushara Wijewardena

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

Everyday we wake up with an amazing opportunity to push our boundaries further . Better! keep practicing !
#life

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

@sanjiva Awesome message, A truly inspiring read after long time. Wishing you all the very best for your next chapter!! job well done to you and your co founders too!

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

Humans may have never used the word “human” as much as we do today in all of history 😄 Thanks to AI for constantly reminding us who we are. #AI

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

“Grok Build is designed explicitly as an end-to-end autonomous AI Software Development Lifecycle (AI-SDLC) platform with multi agent parallel orchestration” #aisdlc #grokbuild

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

#vesak

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

#vesak #moon

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

2024: The year of GenAI -The era of chat)
2026: The year of Agents -The era of action
2028: The year of the Agentic OS (AOS)
It’s no more opening apps—just state your intent and let the OS orchestrate the outcome. The interface is disappearing. #AI #future

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

“ we are horses We have primitive cars still, but much better than the horses”
But cars can’t go in the woods where horses can run
“ when you got cars no need to go in the same path “ #transform

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

Talking with a friend today. who built a Trello clone in 2 days and paired rapid software builds with a 300Gbps router and direct peering at Nikhef, it’s not just hosting.
Real-time WebSockets + massive bandwidth and everyone move cards.
Is this the future? #future

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

"You trust the bus without knowing the driver, you trust the plane without knowing the pilot, you trust the ship without knowing the captain. so why cant you trust the one who control the universe" - Bugs bunny

[Abhishek B R @abhitwt]

developers job nowadays be like...

[Financial Times @FT]

Breaking news: Despite offering its own rival Gemini AI models, Google has committed to invest $10bn in Anthropic at its current valuation with a further $30bn to come in the future. https://t.co/PX25MWlbvg

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

Congrats to the team !

[Aventude @aventude]

We build things every day. Today we're just thankful something extraordinary was already built for us. Happy Earth Day from the Aventude team 🌏

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Bizwire : Aventude has secured a major win at the Singapore Business Review Technology Excellence Awards 2026, taking home the award for Information Management – Computer Software in recognition of its outstanding engineering contribution to Norway’s public sector digitalisation through the low code platform, Compose.

D: https://t.co/Qk0Icc9aZ5

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

Sometimes I wonder how many tokens it costs to say “I’m really sorry “

[Deedy @deedydas]

Computer Science majors are down 8% this year, the biggest drop since 2003-08.

This is the beginning of the third major decline in CS in history. If you majored in CS during the last slump, youd have pretty well for yourself. I suspect history will repeat itself today.

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

Singapore’s Gold Standard: Aventude Wins Top Honours for Engineering Excellence #News @aventude
https://t.co/guImjXwwxk

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

can AI change the world without breaking it first? interesting :)

#AI #economy #ReverseEconomics

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

AI is the first technology in history where more customers makes you POORER.

Every tech company in history got cheaper as it scaled.

More users meant lower costs per user. That's the entire model.

That's why Microsoft prints money. That's why Google prints money. That's why Meta prints money.

Software has near-zero marginal cost. Build it once. Sell it a billion times. The 100 millionth user costs basically nothing to serve.

This is the single most important rule in tech economics.

But AI completely broke it.

Every single query costs real compute. Every interaction burns real electricity. Every response depreciates real hardware.

There is no "build once, sell forever." There is only "burn money every time someone asks a question."

And the numbers prove it:

OpenAI hit $20 billion in annualized revenue. Losses? $14 billion.

For every dollar they earn, they spend $1.69 delivering it. Their losses TRIPLED as their revenue grew.

Not because they're bad at business, but simply because the model itself is broken.

Anthropic crossed $30 billion in annualized revenue. Still burning billions. Still not profitable. Still raising tens of billions just to keep the lights on.

xAI is burning $1 billion every single month.

Perplexity spent 164% of its revenue on compute costs from AWS, They literally spent more on running the AI than they made from selling it.

This is not how technology is supposed to work.

Google once estimated that adding AI to every search query would require 500,000 A100 servers. The cost of answering a single AI query is 10x MORE than a traditional search result.

Traditional software: Serving 1 million users costs roughly the same as serving 100,000. The marginal cost is basically zero.

AI: Serving 1 million users can cost 10 times what 100,000 costs. Every new user is a new expense. Every new query is a new dollar burned.

This is reverse economics. The more successful you become, the faster you die.

And nobody in the industry wants to talk about it because the entire narrative depends on you believing AI companies work like software companies.

But they don't. They NEVER will.

Software scales to infinity. AI scales to bankruptcy.

HSBC ran the numbers on OpenAI specifically.

Their conclusion:

Even after every funding round, every investment, every deal, OpenAI still faces a $207 BILLION shortfall to reach profitability.

The industry response has been to raise prices.

ChatGPT went from free to $20 to $200 for the Pro plan. And it's still not enough because the cost of running these models grows FASTER than any price increase consumers will accept.

Meanwhile 966 AI startups died in 2024. A 25.6% jump from the year before.

AI startups burn cash twice as fast as non-AI tech companies. And the ones building on TOP of OpenAI and Anthropic are in even worse shape.

Every wrapper app. Every "AI-powered" SaaS tool. Every startup whose entire product is someone else's model with a different skin on it.

They're all margin-negative. Every single one.

And these are the companies about to IPO.

SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cerebras. $240 billion in combined raises planned for 2026.

They're asking you to invest in an industry where the fundamental unit economics don't work. Where the MORE customers you get, the MORE money you lose. Where no company has figured out how to make the math positive.

The dot-com bubble had the same pitch: "Revenue is growing. Profitability comes later."

For most of them, later never came.

The question isn't whether AI will change the world. It will.

The question is whether it can do it without going broke first.

And right now, every single number literally says no.

How can they become profitable?

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

If AI replaces junior roles in 1–5 years, how do we grow future seniors? Remove the entry layer and the talent funnel breaks. Some in Singapore already see this as a national issue, calling Gov for incentives to keep hiring and training juniors. #AI #Talent #Junior #jobs

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Dario is wrong.
He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market.
Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic.
Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor

[Thushara Wijewardena @Thush]

#friday what a week