23, !Forbes 30u30. Finding new modes of Human-AI Interaction. Cofounder, CTO/Chief IC @getalchemyst | @ai4bharat alum, automating weekend work for @ritikaadass

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Joined July 2021
> Got denied leaves for offcampus by college TPM because the same company came for oncampus as well, and my TPM got to know it. > Was told basically "CGPA dekhi hai teri?" > surprised_pikachu.jpeg > Got shadowbanned in placements > Got a 10+ LPA job from oncampus because recruiters got to know me from a hackathon > Left offer, one of my friends got in my stead, me happy > Got $100k+ USD WFH offer, left that to join another promising startup (WFH) > Punished by being forced to stay an extra sem > TPM made an example out of me by sending a mail (can only DM SS for obvious reasons) > Became part of my batch lore, instant popularity - asked out even on LinkedIn lmao (but I already won in life with my gf) > dab_while_crying_internally.jpeg > handled full time job with extra penalty courses and B Tech Final Year Project > Worked on Data conflicts and hallucinations in LLMs as my BTech thesis > Started building @getalchemyst from college room, with @uttaranxnayak > Resigned from aforementioned startup job > Advisor fac didn't know what I was working on, gave me less marks > Left my job, raised preseed funds > Btech thesis got published in Springer > happy_happy.jpeg > Fac indirectly apologized later on > never_give_up.jpeg
people really have lost their basic sense of manners while speaking to elders, especially teachers. i agree some teachers might not be good, doesn't give me the right to be rude to them, they're still teaching people or have taught people, and people should respect that
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"Speed of an agency, Scale of an enterprise" With a product team of 6 - that's what we've done at @getalchemyst :)
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Might be obvious to a lot of people, but here's a fun, cool hack to visualize parallel requests over TQDM. You can literally see the multiple queues growing one after another. How cool is that?
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CLAUDE, FUCKING STOP "CARING" ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW AND LET THE USEE DO THEIR DAMN WORK. THIS IS WHY I'VE BEGRUDGINGLY SWITCHED TO @ChatGPT
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anuran 🛠️ Alchemyst AI(e/acc) retweeted
Replying to @AnuranBuilds
Paying the money is just another form of dopamine. It’s an even “better” one, cus you feel righteous and as if it’s the right step.
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Can't agree more, so blackpilled about this. Most students chase dopamine hits disguised as "learning" so that they can feel less guilty about scrolling YT Shorts. And they want to pay money to apparantly "keep themselves accountable". No man, they really just hope to guilt trip themselves to actually try paying attention. And the bhaiya didi s know this.
I wouldn't generalise and say smart engineers aren't teaching, but I do relate to this. I can't relate to the bhaiya/didi style of mentoring on what to do in college or selling courses. The path was always clear to me: build things, have fun, contribute to open source, cut down your screen time, and give back, which is what we are doing with @WeMakeDevs. Life turned out fine. I love teaching and speaking at conferences, yet one of the reasons I never launched my courses is that I was busy building. Literally spinning up datacenters, working on managed cloud platforms, and advising startups. My prediction though is that selling courses in India will always be a fruitful business, and even more so going forward. As it gets harder to land a job in the age of AI, there will be more desperation among students, and more of them will buy courses hoping it gets them hired. That's not how it works. I do wish I had more time to create courses though, because I love teaching. Maybe one day.
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I wouldn't be half the generalist if it was not for me building @getalchemyst . As a founder, I get to do all - from distributed systems to distribution systems.
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Umm, doesn't Claude (as in the web UI) already do it?
RLM means Recursive Language Model. It’s an inference approach (from Zhang et al., MIT) where the LLM treats large inputs as external data in a REPL environment, writes code to inspect/decompose them, and recursively calls itself on subsets—handling contexts far beyond normal window limits. Claude Science uses a Python REPL with similar programmatic LLM calling and delegation.
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Genuine question - does pre-workout powder actually do anything? My gym trainer says one thing, and my logic says something else. Chat, anyone here who has actually seen noticeable changes in their workout patterns / muscle fatigue after starting to use it?
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Is it just me, or is Astra nerfed lately?
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Imagine a model at par with GPT Realtime 1.5 or GPT Realtime 2.1 that costs you effectively less than $0.005 per minute for the most complex voice AI use cases (imagine multilingual phone interviews), at <200ms E2E latency p50. How does that sound for voice builders or real-time AI agent requirements? In case you are interested to know more, hit me up.
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> "We're building prod, not God"
I’ve put a ton of tokens through Jev now, and...I have thoughts. 1. The big labs lost the script TypeSafe’s intro video says, “We’re building prod, not God” — and can I just say? Hell yeah. @typesafeai built something for engineers like me, so I can build products for people like your mom (she says hi btw). They’re not trying to create “Machines of Loving Grace”; they’re trying to build things that let OTHER HUMAN BEINGS create new types of products. The proof is in the pudding. When ChatGPT shipped, we were all blown away by…ChatGPT. When Jev shipped, we were all blown away by what everyone was making with it. I cannot tell you how refreshing this is. It takes a sincere form of humility to believe that you, the creator of a technology, will not be the best at deploying the technology into the marketplace. The big labs, especially Anthropic, have proven not to have this humility…and now everyone hates AI. Thanks, Dario. I guess what I’m saying is: Diogo for president. 2. Ultra-smart classifiers were genuinely a missing primitive. I don’t know how this got missed. Diogo calls it “machine-native intelligence,” and that’s really what it is. I cannot tell you how much bending and twisting I've had to do with LLMs to get them to act like a classifier when they just weren’t. I’m absolutely shocked this is the first time this “type” of model has come to market. These models will unlock AI utility for entire industries: robotics, trucking, aviation, meteorology, finance, defense, retail…even your smart coffee mug is going to use this. 3. It’s still too expensive Jev is really, really cheap compared to LLMs. But you don’t use it like an LLM. In my full self-driving example, or any robotics example, you’ll be making decisions several times per second continuously. The #1 value proposition of a model like this is speed and cost. To be clear, at current pricing, the model will still be successful and well integrated. It will be able to replace a number of tasks that were already being performed (poorly) by LLMs. However, to unlock industrial-scale demand (Jevons paradox), I believe it needs to be roughly 10x cheaper. Currently, Jev is $0.042/M input, which is actually 7x more expensive than a cache read on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.006). If our industrial application requires decisions at 10 Hz and we provide only 10k of context, that would cost $0.0042/second to operate, or $15/hour, $600/week, etc. The good news is Diogo said on a recent AMA that they have substantial margin at their current pricing and have already considered dropping the cost further. I hope it's a lot further. 4. Latency is a real limiter I really hope TypeSafe AI works with an edge network provider to improve the co-location of models and reduce network latency. Ultimately, these models really need to run on-device. I would even be willing to pay some kind of recurring license fee to have a great closed model running on my own hardware, just so I can reduce the TTD (Time To Decision) as much as possible. Imagine running a model like this at 60 Hz, or even 120 Hz. At that point, we’re looking at a new kind of logic gate — we can’t even imagine what that will be like. In summary, this one really is a game changer for everyone building AI products, and, assuming cost and latency are further improved…it’ll be a game changer for everyone doing anything.
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If you want to learn about what we do, check this out!
Well, a week late - but better late than never. Had a blast of a podcast with @sunnyray - my first one as well ^_^ . And, as I always say - The Model was never the bottleneck. Link in replies :)
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Hey @Teknium , Hermes CLI is amazing. It'd be perfect if only 1 thing was resolved: /redraw /redraw is often a hit and miss. For SSHed VMs running within VSCode env, doing /redraw in a terminal often worsens the alignment than a proper redraw As a big time user of Hermes, would love if the redraw is fixed.
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Wake up Spend time with parents Deep Work (Cook model recipes, Read papers) -- Breakfast -- Feature Requests/PRs/Daily Updates Streamline team processes -- Lunch -- Attend investor meetings Sometimes handle chud behaviour by clients Reach out to people -- Snacks -- Hit the gym Learn something new -- Dinner -- Spend time with fiancee Sleep
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Context is literally the most anti-fragile sector unlocked with GenAI going mainstream. I am ready to die on this hill.
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Clanker just killed a 16 day long training run as a part of it's memory optimization process. Speechless.
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GPT 6 Astra is something else man. It's too addictive. GPT 6 Astra in Plan mode + GLM 5.3 in Build mode = 🤯🤯🤯
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First in my bloodline to be required to put ISD codes before names in my contacts. :)
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If you're going to go for 33 hackathons, good luck trying to build anything substantial beyond quick dopamine hits
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