Pathetic...😤😤 Party of change it seems... @imrajmohan how are even allowing this?? Where's the space to walk?? @chennaicorp @sameerangs your team is sleeping and doing nothing!!

"We have to accept the possibility that all mathematics could fall to AI within some months, however unsettling that might seem." The part of mathematics that is like playing Chess or Go, coming up with ever cleverer moves, will be conquered by AI. That is now evident. The part of mathematics that is like inventing an entire new game like Chess _that humans would consider interesting_ is much harder but then humans do that very very rarely too. The "humans would consider interesting" could be considered a fundamental limit of AI or merely a face-saving formula to protect human ego but humans set the rules (for now!). Where does programming fit here? It increasingly seems to me that a very large fraction of software code could be produced competently and _correctly_ by AI. The "correctly" part is being addressed with proof systems like Lean that are applied to mathematical theorem proving today but soon will be applied to verify the software code produced by AI. The point is not that "AI will do it all". There will be humans involved in the process. The key question is "how many humans are needed" and the answer right now is sobering and unsettling. All of us in software need to figure out how to stay relevant. Let me get back to work. Please wish us luck 🙏

The man in the 2,670 sq ft flat pays 66 percent more maintenance than the man in the 1,605. Same lift. Same pool. Same lobby. When the RWA puts the first real budget in front of both of them, one of them loses. One society had a proper bar. Then a man who does not drink became RWA president. He asked why everyone should pay for a bar not everyone uses. The bar shut. The club restaurant was halved. Nobody was told that could happen. They saw the bar on the sample club tour and priced it in. There are two fights running inside delivered societies right now, and buyers walking into ready-to-move projects usually know about neither. The first is the handover. Residents want the builder's agency out and the RWA in, because the agency answers to the builder and not to them. Fair fight. Then the RWA wins it, opens the books, and sees what the agency was actually spending to hold that spec. Salaries rise every year. Power rises. Water tankering rises. The corpus does not. So the RWA does the only thing it can do. It cuts headcount. Two gardeners instead of five. A plumber who comes on call instead of one who sits on site. No liftman. The lobby still photographs the same. The building just starts ageing at a different speed. The second fight is about who is voting. A project selling today will put 1,605 sq ft flats and 2,670 sq ft flats in the same tower, sharing one lobby and one lift core. Maintenance is billed per square foot. Same lift, same guard, same pool, same STP. The 2,670 owner pays 66 percent more than his neighbour every month, forever, for identical use. Now put one budget in front of both of them. The man in the 1,605 is stretched. That is why he bought 1,605. Every rupee added to that bill lands on a household that has already committed everything to the EMI. The man in the 2,670 bought the lake, the lagoon, the club, the tennis court. He wants them running at the standard he was sold, because he paid for them at booking and he can carry the cost. Both of them are being reasonable. They are voting on the same line item. Then occupancy fills in and moves the maths again. Compact flats sell first and fill fully; they are the rentable ones. More households per acre. The clubhouse square footage does not grow with them. The pool does not get longer. The lifts do not multiply, so the wait at 9am does. The 2,670 owner is now paying 66 percent more for a pool more crowded than the one he was shown. The new TOD projects make this heavier. Bigger decks, lakes, lagoons, some of it sitting on leased land. Every one of those carries a wage bill, and none of it shows on your price sheet at booking. It shows up in year five, when the RWA drafts its first real budget and someone stands up to say this is getting too costly. The cleanest societies I have walked are the ones where the flats sit close in size. Larger 3BHKs with 4BHKs. Everybody carrying a similar cost, wanting a similar standard, voting the same way without anyone having to fight for it. If you are buying a 4BHK, buy into a society of 4BHKs. You are buying the people who will vote on what your building is allowed to cost. Check the size mix before you check the sample flat. The gentry is the product.

Let me do the heavy lifting and say this openly. While meeting global VCs pitching our work of energy intelligence, I thought that India's deeptech startups need a better PR for a global exposure. But I was wrong. In fact, India's deeptech doesn't have a PR problem. It has a vocabulary problem. We keep letting the world describe us in borrowed words: "India's SpaceX", "the next Silicon Valley", "China plus one". Each one measures us on someone else's axis. Capital burned, frontier conquered, scale won. But our real edge is the thing that axis can't see. Mangalyaan reached Mars for $74 million, less than the movie Gravity cost to make. Chandrayaan-3 landed near the lunar south pole for under $75 million, on an R&D base stuck around 0.65% of GDP while China runs at 2.4%. That's not a cheaper version of the western story. It's a category it has no word for: frontier capability at a tenth of the capital. The fix isn't better translation. It's refusing to be translated. India's tech should have it's own position, not placed wrt any others ecosystem.

I reported a bribery incident in TANGEDCO @TANGEDCO_Offcl through the Makkal Satchi portal @raavanamavan7 . An enquiry followed, as expected, and the official was transferred as always the usual outcome in many government departments. Needless to say, the bribe amount I had paid was never returned. But here's the interesting part. Ever since then, whenever I visit the same office, a chair that seemingly never existed suddenly appears for me. I am politely requested to sit, my grievance is attended to immediately, and every official is eager to help. For a brief moment, I feel less like an invisible citizen or a mere mortal who doesn't appear to have deep deep pockets and more like a VIP. An unexpected perk of reporting bribery, perhaps. Though, in an ideal system, every citizen, irrespective of their influence or financial status, should be treated with the same dignity and have their legitimate work attended to promptly, without having to expose corruption first. @CMOTamilnadu

@sama we’re publicly shooting our shot: We built EXACTLY what you wished Slack was. We want you to try it for OpenAI. If you try it AND DON’T LOVE IT we’ll donate 100k to a charity of your choice & send you an apology video from my mother.