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I realised I never shared my full story on X, so here it goes:
> was born in a small village in India
> homeschooled until 6th grade
> graduated high school at age 12
> wanted to be a doctor but couldn't get college admission (min age was 17)
> spent a year trying to get an exception but failed
> pivoted to computer science, got into NIT at age 14
> fell in love with building and problem-solving
> graduated college at age 18
> got into Amazon as a software engineer at age 19
> I was settled atleast as my family said
> but nothing felt settling about it, my heart wanted more..
Full story beautifully covered by @madeitdesi :
moving out of SF for the 3rd time in last 18 months 😭
grateful for the people i met so far but leaving this city always hurts
got 7 more days before i leave, who should i meet?
At female founder conference @ycombinator today listening to women founders including @jesslivingston, cofounder of Y Combinator!!!!
If you’re also here, come say hi 👋
can I get an invite please? 👀
We want to celebrate with people using GPT-6. We did this for GPT-5.5 and it was really fun.
We’re getting together in SF on September 16 to talk about the model, what we should build next, and mostly just to hang out.
Apply by Sep 10:
gpt6-launch-event.openai.cha…
Divya Saini retweeted
Meet Divya (@dibbaa_code) - the first person to join Cardboard:
> born in sikar
> homeschooled until 6th
> graduated high school at age 12
> applied to med school, was too young for it (you have to be 17)
> got into NIT at age 14
> studied computer science
> graduated NIT at age 18
> joined amazon at age 19
> worked in distributed systems for almost a decade
> built her own products in parallel
> won buildspace, founders inc and ODF
> wanted to work with cracked people
> joined @usecardboard as #1 eng to transform storytelling
I got a life update -
After an insane 9-year run at Amazon, I’ve joined @usecardboard as founding engineer to build the best agentic video editor alongside the best team.
Six months ago I moved to SF looking for an early-stage team where the product is still being shaped, the problems are hard, and the people are cracked.
I posted exactly that on this platform. The post blew up and it led me to Cardboard. Crazy how putting what you want out into the universe sometimes just works.
Grateful to be here. Now its time to build and ship.
Ok 6 months of claude max 20x is insane, locking in!
just went on stage with @bcherny for startup school
and he had a special announcement for all 6k+ attendees: free claude max 20x accounts for 6 months!
thank you!!
living the silicon valley dream is hella expensive.
I just paid 44% in taxes and I'm not even a rich billionaire yet lol
Divya Saini retweeted
From a Hindi-medium school in rural Rajasthan to a founding engineer at a YC-backed startup in San Francisco.
Stories like Divya's remind us that where you start matters far less than how relentlessly you keep moving forward. @dibbaa_code
I added an automation that takes my calendar events and turn them into system alarms.
coz for time sensitive stuff, alarm is the only thing that really works with the right label as it will keep irritating you until you ack.
now I just use siri to add new calendar events. I literally never forget any important event or meeting.
works for future events too even if you do not add them yourself.
a friend showed me this setup and it's been a game changer for my adhd brain, happy to share if anyone else needs :)
video edited by @usecardboard
Unnaceptable from @interaction , I remembered by myself anyway.
Anyone suggest a different iMessage Agent that doesn't act like a naive intern?
this makes me both sad and angry
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
Divya Saini retweeted
"hey clicky" can you please dm @FarzaTV to recruit me on his team?
@heyclicky is my go-to tool for learning things now, and I was shocked it could compose me a song.
goated tool team, kudos.
I am building a team.
If you're really really really good at building stuff, design, filmmaking, writing, pushing the models to their limits, or just making people care about a product at mass, certainly reach out.
Let's collab + make stuff.
Details:
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
who knew i’d end up watching 3 idiots in an SF theater,
with 250 other builders.. crazy!!
and it hit different this time. feeling really inspired.
thank you @FarzaTV for organizing it 🙌
