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This essay has been in my head as a draft for the last 5 years. It's about Kannada identity, triggered by a certain phrase I kept seeing in people's reviews of the 'new-age' movies.
I'd love to know if any of it resonates with you.
coda.io/@vikasgorur/for-a-ka…
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14 years. Three completely different hard problems. ~$500M in exits. And he's still building.
@thejo went from being a consumer hardware founder at Automatic, to building pure B2B at Airbase, and now he's building @getjournal_ai, a platform for agentic product development. A journey that started from India, and impacts the world.
He is also an active angel investor, and an LP in multiple VC funds.
Excited to host him for an unfiltered, builder-first conversation at SPC India, on July 22nd!
RSVP on Luma now. We have limited seats.
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Most Indians are convinced that the poorest person they know is their watchman on domestic worker, and are blissfully oblivious to 1/3rd of India earning less than 3k a month.
💯 you should not be building dashboards that turn business data into actionable insights before you're 30
Dear “15-18 yo founder”s sending me DMs, don’t.
Go and hug your parents, fall in love, eat chocolate cereal for breakfast, read poetry. Nobody will give you back these years.
And sure, do your homework and learn math and code if that feels fun. But stop building SaaS and hustling.
Even if career is what you are optimizing for, this is not the way. You need deep education that will withstand automation. You need to sit with linear algebra and probability theory and philosophy and literature. It won’t get you go viral on X but it’ll make you whole.
And mute all the SF performative assholes.
Oooops sorry this last one was a note to self.
I. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Ask some wise man in India for details.
II. Things happen in the natural world according to rules, not the whims of gods. Hire the Greeks to find them for you.
III. All things in the universe are made of combinations of the same LXXX elements.
maybe time to finally stop reading HN comments. morons out there arguing that IMO problems are not that hard.
This is what the future looks like. The number of people who program in some form is going to double, triple.
The people who bitterly look down on AI-assisted coding will be left behind as relics of a bygone era.
It is time for us to invite vibe-coders into our programming communities. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/20/t…
AI coding has led to a phenomenon I call "all vegetables and no candy"
The only thing I need to do is the *hard* parts of programming. This messes with your brain energy levels. Previously, there were always periods of low-energy repetitive work that you could do on autopilot.
i feel intense pang of nostalgia thinking about how i will never have to write an immense amount of repetitive code to eg build a website ever again. there was a quiet bluecollar satisfaction to this type of work, knowing that if you don’t stay up all night smacking keys the thing really just won’t exist
Every "AI coding doesn't work" post/comment I see is just a thinly-disguised version of
"I am so smart and the problems I solve are unique, while you were partying I studied the blade" etc.
'Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance' talks about "gumption" as the main limiting factor to creative work.
With coding agents you only need gumption to tackle the essential complexity and not for the annoying tedium.
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Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
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Coding with AI has revealed that most of the thing that makes programming hard isn't writing the code down but getting to a point of conceptual clarity. Previously the only way to get there was by fighting through writing the code, so it got conflated with programming itself.
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Hot take: teaching linear algebra in isolation should be illegal. Determinants, traces, eigenvectors mean nothing without real-world context.
20 years later, I still have to google this s**** every time I encounter it, because whoever taught me this was drier than drywall.
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Bringing my workshops to Bangalore this July! We have poetry, art and journaling lined up! Send it to people and come by! :)
Register here: linktr.ee/ms.alwar
