Vikram Singh Bajwa

AI practitioner. VP, Ops & Client Experience @Fitelo. Ex-BlackRock. Ex-Genpact. Curious about everything, expert in nothing.

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@AIAdsApps Claude

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Something happened last month that most people completely missed.

Google added music creation to Gemini — their AI assistant that 750 million people already use.

You type a sentence. You get a full 30-second song. Vocals. Lyrics. Instruments. You can upload a photo of your dog and it makes a soundtrack that matches the vibe.

No studio. No music theory. No production skills. Nothing.

And most people scrolled right past it.

Here's why that's a mistake.

This isn't about music. This is about what happens when creation costs drop to zero across every medium.

Two years ago, AI could write your tweets. Last year, it could make your thumbnails and edit your videos. Now it writes, sings, and produces your music — in seconds.
Text. Images. Video. Audio. The entire creative stack is now accessible to anyone with a keyboard and a prompt.

If you're still thinking "I'm not a musician, this doesn't affect me" — you're missing the pattern.
Every time a creation tool becomes free, a new wave of creators appears. And every wave of creators needs one thing: a unique perspective to create from.
The tool isn't the edge. It never was.

Google didn't limit songs to 30 seconds because the tech can't do more. They limited it to 30 seconds because that's the format — Reels, Shorts, Stories, group chats. They're not building a music product. They're turning music into a messaging feature.

When music becomes as easy to make as a text message, the people who win aren't the best producers.
They're the people with something worth saying.
The medium keeps changing. The leverage keeps increasing. But the bottleneck stays the same: your taste, your ideas, your point of view.
AI didn't replace writers. It exposed who was actually thinking. AI won't replace musicians. It will expose who was actually creating.

Stop watching these tools from the sidelines. Start asking yourself: if creation is free, what would I make?
That question is worth more than any prompt.

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Most people use Claude like a search engine.

They type vague questions. Get vague answers. Then blame the tool.

Here's the truth: Claude isn't a chatbot. It's a execution engine. And once you learn how to use it properly, it replaces 5 tools on your desktop.

I've spent 100+ hours inside Claude. Here's everything I wish someone told me on Day 1.

The 3 models. Know when to use each.

Sonnet 4.6 → Your daily driver. Fast, sharp, handles 80% of your work. Writing, brainstorming, analysis — start here.

Opus 4.6 → The deep thinker. Turn this on when the problem has layers. Financial modeling, complex research, multi-step reasoning. Slower, but worth every second.

Haiku 4.5 → The speed demon. Quick lookups, light edits, simple tasks. Think of it as your AI sticky note.

You don't use a sledgehammer to hang a picture frame. Same logic.

Your prompts are probably broken.

Garbage in = garbage out. This hasn't changed since GPT-2.

Every strong prompt has 3 parts:

Context → Tell Claude who you are and what you're working on

Task → Be specific about what you want done

Rules → Format, length, tone, style
That's it. No fancy frameworks needed.
Stack these three, and you'll outperform 90% of users instantly.

The features most people ignore (but shouldn't):

→ Connectors. Claude plugs into Notion, Slack, Google Calendar. It's not just a chat window anymore. It lives inside your workflow.

→ Projects. Upload your files once. Every new conversation already has your context. No more re-explaining yourself.

→ Research Mode. Ask a hard question. Claude doesn't guess — it searches dozens of sources, cross-references, and delivers a cited report. Takes 5-45 mins. Worth every minute.

→ Skills. Repeatable workflows you set up once. Instead of typing the same prompt daily, Claude runs it automatically. Build a Skill for anything you do more than twice.

→ Cowork. Claude accesses your files, executes tasks in the background, runs on a schedule. This is where AI stops being a toy and starts being a teammate.

The real unlock isn't the tool. It's how you think about it.

Stop asking Claude questions.

Start giving it jobs.

"Analyze this spreadsheet and flag anomalies." "Rewrite this landing page for Gen Z." "Draft a 5-email nurture sequence for cold leads."

The people getting 10x results aren't smarter. They just give better instructions.

One last thing:

If your conversation gets long and Claude slows down — type "compact" and start a new chat.

If your output is too wordy — add constraints: "500 words max. Bullet points. No fluff."
If you're still copy-pasting the same prompt every day — build a Skill.
Small moves. Big leverage.

Claude isn't the future of productivity.

It's the present.

Most people just haven't caught up yet.

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@AIAdsApps App

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Everyone says the gold rush is over.
They’re wrong. It’s just beginning.
AI changed the rules. Here’s what most people miss:

Before 2023, you needed millions to build a product. Now you need a laptop and curiosity.
Apps aren’t dying. They’re growing faster than ever. Smaller teams are now shipping products faster than big companies with 500 employees.
But here’s the biggest shift nobody talks about:
The old game was simple. Uber exists? Build another Uber but cheaper. Swiggy exists? Make another Swiggy with lower prices. Take what works. Copy it. Compete on price.
That game is dead.

The new game is completely different.
Let me give you an example.
Therapy costs ₹2000/hour. Most people can’t afford it. Most people won’t even go.
Old way thinking: Build a cheaper therapy app. Charge ₹500 instead.

New way thinking: What if therapy wasn’t even a “session”? What if AI could check on you throughout the day like a friend? No booking. No waiting room. No awkward first conversation. Just a calm voice that knows you and talks when you need it.

That’s not a cheaper version of therapy. That’s something completely new. Something that was impossible before AI.
Same with fitness. Same with education. Same with finance.

Stop asking “how do I make this cheaper?”
Start asking “if this thing never existed, what would I build from scratch with AI?”
That one question will separate the winners from everyone else.

Big companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are now building app stores. Think early Google. Think early SEO. The crowd is small today. But the founders who show up now will own tomorrow.

You don’t need permission.
You don’t need an MBA.
You don’t need venture capital.
You need one real problem, one clear idea, and the willingness to start before you feel ready.
The people saying “it’s too late” said the same thing about the internet in 2005, mobile in 2010, and social media in 2015.

It’s never too late for the person who actually builds.

Stop consuming. Start creating.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
The second best time is today.
The best time to start an AI company? Right now.
#Anthropic #OpenAI #startup

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The AI Power Law

Most people are using AI to do what they already do, slightly faster. A few people are using AI to do what was previously impossible. The gap between these two groups is becoming the most important gap in the economy.

Right now, the big race isn’t models anymore. It’s agents. Claude, Gemini, GPT — they’re all converging on “good enough.” The real game shifted to: can your AI actually do things?
Browse, code, operate a computer, chain tasks together without you babysitting it. Anthropic shipped computer use. Google is deep into Gemini agents. OpenAI is building the operating system layer. Everyone’s racing to be the first AI that replaces a workflow, not just a prompt. The model wars are over. The agent wars just started.
Here’s what most people miss: Open source is quietly winning the bottom of the market. Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek — good enough for 80% of use cases at near-zero cost. The frontier labs will own the top 20%. The most complex reasoning tasks. The ones where being 5% better is worth 100x the price. This is how every technology market works. The middle gets hollowed out.
AI coding went from “cute demo” to “junior engineer” in about 8 months. Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot — developers who refuse to use them are like drivers who refuse to use GPS. You can do it. But why? The interesting question isn’t “will AI replace developers.” It’s “what does a developer who’s 10x more productive choose to build?”

The real alpha in AI right now: Don’t learn tools. Learn to think in systems. Every tool will be obsolete in 18 months. The skill of decomposing a problem into pieces an AI can handle — that compounds forever. Leverage is the game. AI is the newest form of it. Use it like that.

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AI’s real value isn’t productivity. It’s compressing the loop between data and decision.
The gap between “I need to understand this” and “I know what to do” just shrank 5x.
Your judgment still matters. The insights still require taste. But the time to get there? Nearly zero.
Most leaders won’t do this. They’ll read about AI, nod, then go back to waiting three weeks for an analyst’s deck.
The ones who win will set up their tools, feed them context, and think alongside the machine. Not outsource thinking — accelerate it.
It’s like having four brilliant analysts who never sleep, never politic, and never sandbag the answer.
The setup is trivially simple. The edge is enormous. That’s usually where the biggest opportunities hide.

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OpenClaw is overrated.
I used it. I built with it.
Still not impressed.
After all the setup and configuration, it just puts a bot inside your computer. A bot that clicks buttons and moves stuff around.
That’s it.
Tools like Claude’s Coworker mode already do this. Natively. Inside your browser. No extra setup. No duct tape.
So why the hype?
Simple. World-class PR.
The MacBook Mini bundles. The influencer posts. The “future of AI agents” tweets. It’s a playbook. And it’s working.
Credit where it’s due — they got everyone talking about AI agents. That matters.
But getting attention is not the same as being useful.
Hype is not habit.
Buzz is not daily use.
When I remove the noise and look at what it actually does versus what already exists
It doesn’t add up.
Great marketing. Average product.
Overrated.

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@Harry_Jerry Bomb threat

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@mikefutia IG

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@ShivrattanDhil1 Lack of civic sense

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@raroque @6foot7engineer Keep going Chris ! Focus on making it perfect, everything adds up in the end

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@TruthFairy131 As an Indian living in India, I fully support you.
Majority here lack civic sense. Our rivers are polluted, our groundwater is poisoned, and yet most people have grown comfortable with it.
If more voices rise, maybe the next generation can inherit a cleaner India.

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@SamirPradhann I worked at BLK for 6 years. No one asks such stupid questions

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@ShivrattanDhil1 Thanks for sharing brother. Not many people nowadays to pin point what’s wrong.
This is sheer wastage of taxpayers’ money. Funny thing is that majority people as evident in comments are fine with this BS culture

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@TheConquerMM I am 36, can I also use these tips?

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BlackRock has recognized the asset's potential to act as a hedge against inflation and a new form of 'digital gold

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BlackRock approached bitcoin with cautious optimism, and now strategic investment with calculated progression

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4/ 🌾Fostering Innovation: Shri Badal's Green Revolution reshaped Punjab's agriculture, boosting productivity and ensuring food security for millions. #ParkashSinghBadal

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3/ ✌️Conflict Resolution: His courageous efforts during the Punjab insurgency emphasized empathy and dialogue, bringing peace and stability. #ParkashSinghBadal