sandeep

Technologist, Decentralised real world applications, Privacy and HumanRights advocacy. Minimalist, 🐕🐈 dad, Made of 💫 dust. RT ~Endorsement. Opinions are mine

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

We doubled Claude Cowork usage limits for the next month. This applies to your 5-hr rate limits. If you’ve been saving up a big messy project, now’s the time.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Exposed vulnerability : "Password : 12345"

CBSE : "An expert team of cybersecurity professionals has been deployed over the last few days from across various arms of the government as well as the IITs to fortify these systems, including taking them over to a more secure set up."

CERT-In : ................

[No Cats No Life @NoCatsNoLife_m]

https://t.co/LEgRuKYlzV

[sandeep @Xroute53]

As usual, Stanl's rebuttals to all with equity and class.

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

Attacking the journalist for asking the Prime Minister a question betrays the very values the diplomat sought to defend; mocking the diplomat for the way he speaks is snobbery, not liberalism; and portraying India as a land of snake charmers reflects a lingering colonial, racist hangover.

[sandeep @Xroute53]

That's something

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

In fact, NLAs suggest Claude suspects it’s being tested across many of our evaluations, even when it doesn’t verbalize its suspicions.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

In fact, NLAs suggest Claude suspects it’s being tested across many of our evaluations, even when it doesn’t verbalize its suspicions.

[sandeep @Xroute53]

The mother of all consolidation

[Claude @claudeai]

The same Claude that helps you create a deck can also help you plan a trip, order groceries, book a table, or pick a playlist, all in one conversation.

See what you can connect: https://t.co/aK5RfEwruF

[sandeep @Xroute53]

This ones epic

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

The Jensen Huang episode.

0:00:00 – Is Nvidia’s biggest moat its grip on scarce supply chains?
0:16:25 – Will TPUs break Nvidia’s hold on AI compute?
0:41:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia become a hyperscaler?
0:57:36 – Should we be selling AI chips to China?
1:35:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia make multiple different chip architectures?

Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. Enjoy!

[sandeep @Xroute53]

@dhanyarajendran @kavashivani https://t.co/SvCV8AoEe9

[WRI India @WRIIndia]

At a workshop co-organised by Department of Department of HSS - IIT Tirupati and WRI India, challenges on cooling data centres came into focus.

As AI drives growth, conversations include water stress, land use, and wider environmental impacts.

#DataCentre #DigitalFuture

[sandeep @Xroute53]

Don't shoot the messenger, it might be far from truth or relatively proportional. But yes DCs consume a large amount of water. Circulation is not perennial without loss, the offset is the measured usage(wastage).

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

Where do these people get these fake numbers from?

@dhanyarajendran what's your source for this totally fake number?

Do you know how water is used in a datacenter? It is for cooling in a closed loop. It is not "consumed". It circulates

(I'm literally working on datacenters)

[sandeep @Xroute53]

Bold !!

[Gagan Biyani 🏛 @gaganbiyani]

People have asked me how I feel about Udemy’s sale to Coursera. Honestly, I’m kinda pissed about it.

I want to be clear - I’m grateful for the opportunity to start and benefit from Udemy’s success. It changed my life.

But there’s another side to Udemy. A story of what could have been.

After our Series B, founders owned less than 30% of the company. Our investors took over and installed their own CEO to run it. We all liked this new CEO and honestly, for years it looked like a brilliant move. The company kept growing and growing. They launched B2B and built a $500M ARR business. Eventually, the company IPO’ed for $3B.

Yet all along there were clear cracks under the surface. Over Udemy’s history, there have been 7 CEO’s. The board replaced the second CEO with dud after dud. I’d often try to meet with the board or the new CEO, and was completely ignored. Eren had influence as Chairman of the Board but Oktay and I were so ignored they didn’t even invite us to the IPO. LOL WTF. There are like 50+ people invited to these things and nobody thought: “oh maybe we should invite the people who fucking invented the thing we’re all celebrating.” It shows how little respect they had for founders and for product innovation as a discipline.

I think they wanted a CEO they could control, a buttoned-up suit instead of a brash founder/CEO that is risk-taking, visionary, but a bit of a pain. For awhile, it looked like it didn’t even matter who was CEO - the company was run by the incredibly talented team that reported to them anyways.

Well, it worked until it didn’t.

The company made no major product innovations for 15 years. Instead, they took the original idea (video-based courses) and sold it in every place imaginable. It got us to $800M run-rate. That’s no joke; that takes serious execution and a great team that hustled hard to win the market.

But eventually the consumer business stopped growing. The B2B business has now flattened out as well. Meanwhile, Coursera was catching up.

Original Coursera was a far worse product than Udemy, but it got a ton of press. Learning ivory tower bullshit from academics doesn’t get you a real education, but it does create prestige. They raised from better investors on better terms, and had better leadership.

Udemy to this day has more revenue than Coursera, but Coursera won the court of investor opinion. They got higher multiples from both private and public markets.

Coursera innovated heavily. They added corporate courses to their university catalog, built fully-online degree programs, and offered a B2B competitor that kept Udemy on its toes. Still, the Udemy B2B business (and team) out-performed and so the two companies were deadlocked. Coursera was better at B2C, Udemy at B2B.

A merger was inevitable.

But WHY IN GODS NAME did we sell to Coursera instead of the other way around? Why are the combined companies under $3B in market cap?

Three reasons:
First, edtech didn’t live up to its promise. While these two companies had solid revenue and cash positions, their growth slowed, and public markets balked. This meant compressed multiples and significantly lower valuations.
Second, the companies stopped innovating. They are selling a product to businesses that their customers don’t love. They were category leaders, but they lead the category into mediocrity. They captured a significant share of learning and development (L&D) spending, but L&D as a whole actually lost budget within their organizations. That’s Udemy’s fault, and it doesn’t even realize it.

That brings me to my final point: I personally believe Udemy traded upside opportunity for downside risk. Us founders were unproven and young. We made lots of mistakes, including fighting amongst ourselves. A good investor would have supported us through it because they believe founders drive the highest long-term returns. Instead, they brought in outside CEOs to replace us. I sometimes wonder if they recognize this error; everyone makes mistakes and maybe they learned from it.

Either way - the consequences are real. By ignoring the founders, Udemy failed to innovate, which led to slowing growth which led to mediocre public market results. Furthermore, they don’t have a good evangelist and public markets don’t like a headless horse.

I sold my Udemy stock awhile ago. I think the merger was critical for both companies’ survival. Now, though, the new combined entity needs to innovate again.

On B2B, Coursera needs to help L&D become the heroes of the AI era so the entire market starts growing again. On B2C, they need to build the most educational AI product on the planet. (I’d focus on the former, since the latter is a lot harder and riskier).

Coursera can still achieve our original vision and likely build a $10B+ company in the meantime. Even though I’ve got no stake in its future, I’m mission-driven and I REALLY hope they figure it out.

The current education system sucks and the world deserves something better.

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

The Epic Return Begins as Amur Falcons Ride the Winds Home ! From the golden savannas of Botswana and Zimbabwe, where summer rains are fading and the chill is begining to set in, legendary travellers Alang and Apapang have taken flight. Their compass is set northward. They are now journeying towards the Somalian gateway, that crucial pause before they take the great leap over the Arabian Sea crossing. But the winds… not yet ready. The currents that will carry them from Somalia to India have still not aligned. And so, for now, the falcons wait resting, refueling, preparing for one of the most extraordinary flights on Earth. These are the same skies once traced from Siberia to Manipur, then across continents to Africa capturing hearts in India and beyond. Apapang, Alang and Ahu…their journey back home is about to unfold. Watch this space. @sureshwii #Amurfalcons #AmurMigration #BirdMigration @wii_india

[sandeep @Xroute53]

https://t.co/QR4YDKCEUT

[sandeep @Xroute53]

THIS

[a16z @a16z]

The first rule of career planning: Do not plan your career.

https://t.co/cNj7lgxL8o

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software.

It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans.
https://t.co/NQ7IfEtYk7

[Abhijit Vaidya @AbhijitVaidya]

Your weather app runs on models built for London and New York.

Indian thunderstorms are 2-3km wide, last under an hour and form where no model predicted. The same GFS that nails London rain 3 days out struggles with Pune rain 3 hours out.

I built MausamNow to fix this. 5 models, live radar, satellite tracking, locality-level answers. Works across 38 radar stations in India.

Try it: https://t.co/i7Vr6IEAuD
How it works: https://t.co/f7NhFVOh3o
#Weather #India #Monsoon #Pune #Punerains

[sandeep @Xroute53]

Legend !

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer."

Simon Willison (@simonw) is one of the most prolific independent software engineers and most trusted voices on how AI is changing the craft of building software. He co-created Django, coined the term "prompt injection," and popularized the terms "agentic engineering" and "AI slop."

In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:
🔸 Why November 2025 was an inflection point
🔸 The "dark factory" pattern
🔸 Why mid-career engineers (not juniors) are the most at risk right now
🔸 Three agentic engineering patterns he uses daily: red/green TDD, thin templates, hoarding
🔸 Why he writes 95% of his code from his phone while walking the dog
🔸 Why he thinks we're headed for an AI Challenger disaster
🔸 How a pelican riding a bicycle became the unofficial benchmark for AI model quality

Listen now 👇
https://t.co/wlEIyOehU8

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

#India: We regret fast passage of Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, without adequate stakeholder consultation. The amendments risk setting back hard-won rights of transgender people, replacing self-identification with mandatory medical verification processes.

India has been a pioneer for rights of transgender & gender-diverse people. This Bill will have far-reaching impacts on right to privacy & risk marginalisation of transgender people.

[sandeep @Xroute53]

@ayyappsraj Its ostentatious and obscene to just drop in food items worth INR 145 on doorsteps of random households to market @FirstClubIndia
Your $31m seed round could justify this absurdity, but not in this country where kids go hungry for days, parents lose jobs, farmers don't get right price for their produce and small businesses are shutting down more so often due to ongoing worldly events.
This is not how you "Redefine quality", its extremely condemnable. As a builder of a company you should have civic sense and the ability to do right. Don't lean into convenience for growth, be creative.
Ayyappan, "Joy doubles when shared with less privilged"