Aakash Nigam
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A lesson on 'delayed gratification' from India's 2025-26. Very aptly applicable to startups, and life as well : The mature mind choose Sreya, the immature mind settles for Preya. A startup stands to gain immensely when all of the team members embraces delayed gratification.
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'The intelligence part suddenly feels quite a bit ahead of all the rest of it - integrations (tools, knowledge), the necessity for new organizational workflows, processes, diffusion more generally" "2026 is going to be a high energy year as the industry metabolizes the new
A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks. Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in
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"Claude Code is the best tech invention of our generation"
NVIDIA CEO: "Every software company should get involved with Claude." Claude Code is the best tech invention of our generation.
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“Computers are like a bicycle for the mind” - Apple’s Steve Jobs. “Information at your fingertips” - Bill Gates on Internet "Managers of Infinite Minds" - @ivanhzhao on AI
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"2026 is they year of 10X velocity"
"You cannot overtake 15 cars in sunny weather. But you can, when it is raining." I love this quote by Ayrton Senna. It captures how we’re thinking right now. AI is here. For some, this rain is a risk. We see it as an opportunity. We didn't just add AI to our roadmap, we used it
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Ideas don’t wait months or years — they happen in hours. You don’t guess first — you simulate first. You don’t plan for weeks — you ship, then iterate. Grunt work disappears — curiosity and judgment become the real job. Learning doesn’t take semesters — it takes a conversation.
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Ideas don’t wait months or years — they happen in hours. You don’t guess first — you simulate first. You don’t plan for weeks — you ship, then iterate. Grunt work disappears — curiosity and judgment become the real job. Learning doesn’t take semesters — it takes a conversation.
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100% agree with all observations from Nadella uncle. "We are beginning to distinguish between “spectacle” and “substance”" "We are now entering a phase where we build rich scaffolds that orchestrate multiple models and agents; account for memory and entitlements; enable rich
A few reflections on the year ahead for our industry ...
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"Last 30 days: 259 PRs, 497 commits, +40k/–38k LOC — all via Claude Code" This is the new baseline for dev velocity in 2026. The bottleneck shifts from engineering capacity + hiring speed to identifying what’s worth building. Please spend the last 3 days of 2025 building your
When I created Claude Code as a side project back in September 2024, I had no idea it would grow to be what it is today. It is humbling to see how Claude Code has become a core dev tool for so many engineers, how enthusiastic the community is, and how people are using it for all
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If models are the IC engines, User Interfaces are the abstraction layer that turns raw power into niche, usable workflows. As @bcherny (creator of Claude Code) puts it: - “It takes significant mental work to re-adjust to what the model can do…” - “The hardest part… is to
@karpathy I feel this way most weeks tbh. Sometimes I start approaching a problem manually, and have to remind myself “claude can probably do this”. Recently we were debugging a memory leak in Claude Code, and I started approaching it the old fashioned way: connecting a profiler, using the
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2025 was a special year in the history of technology. A powerful alien tool showed up—no manual included. The only way to understand it was: (a) deep curiosity, and (b) relentless experimentation. Generational companies will be built—and generational companies will be
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become
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"The new bottlenecks are organizational, not technical — let's go fix them!" In other words --AI native startups without bloated org structures have huge competitive advantage over their incumbent competitors.
AI is causing a new dev pattern: I heard this yesterday: I show my stakeholders a demo, we generate 10-12 exciting ideas, and by end of next day, 80% are already in production. Then I let them know: 'It's live — what do you think?" People who fret about AI replacing dev jobs are
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