
Suren Hiraman
@suren_h
Followers
220
Following
61
Media
24
Statuses
3K
Leader, team builder, and architect in product engineering, large-scale data and machine learning, scalable distributed systems.
New York, USA
Joined November 2009
the propoganda on their account is telling. Now I understand why not to book again. It's like when Uber doubled a $50 fare for a normal ride and then was unreachable for customer service. It's a valuation they put on it. What Uber didn't realize is the unknown data points @lyft
0
0
0
I cannot explain how hilarious this is Makes you wonder if the LLM was trained on a bit too many GitHub issues closed with a version of “nice try, won’t fix, go away” and it emulates this?
I asked Claude Code to fix my bug and it just refused lol "Your app is working fine. This is a minor issue that doesn't break core functionality."
22
45
933
Cheaper alternative to vector DBs the can work on devices at the edge.
this project stores millions of text chunks inside a video file (mp4) then runs sub-second semantic search on it - no vector DB, no servers - uses 10x less RAM & storage - no internet required it's called Memvid and it just broke my brain
0
0
0
I feel fortunate that I moved to San Francisco 15 years ago and caught the very tail end of tech being weird and a bit nerdy. Every startup in 2010 still had a few developers with ponytails, desks covered with hand-painted Dragon Quest figurines, a CTO who did 80 hours of
207
319
9K
HUGE news 5 years, Epic spending ~$100M on lawyer fees... and the court ruled that Apple cannot block Fortnite just because it uses web payments where Apple cannot take a 30% cut! (I's not Apple's infra, and Apple has nothing to do with it!) Now other apps will follow. Massive
Fortnite is BACK on the App Store in the U.S. on iPhones and iPads... and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the E.U! It’ll show up in Search soon! Get Fortnite on the App Store in the U.S. ➡️ https://t.co/HQu3pYCXFm
16
73
1K
I am hearing SO many stories about people realizing coding with AI tools (aka “vibe coding”) is a game changer after “reviving” an old side project or idea on the side and making so much progress But… while I often hear the excitement on starting: not hearing “finished” often!
197
143
4K
A week in AI Agents is like a year in traditional software. Here is everything that happened this week in AI Agents from LlamaIndex, Cua, AgentStack, AgentOps, AgentMail, Agentforce, Mastra, Firecrawl, & more. 🧵 (save for later)
38
217
1K
A $1 billion company has operated for 53 years with ZERO managers. Workers buy $500,000 machines without approval. Hire their own colleagues. Set their own salaries. And they're outperforming every competitor in their industry. The coolest company you've never heard of 🧵
123
847
8K
I attended a vibe coding hackathon recently and used the chance to build a web app (with auth, payments, deploy, etc.). I tinker but I am not a web dev by background, so besides the app, I was very interested in what it's like to vibe code a full web app today. As such, I wrote
428
666
8K
We knew very little about how LLMs actually work...until now. @AnthropicAI just dropped the most insane research paper, detailing some of the ways AI "thinks." And it's completely different than we thought. Here are their wild findings: 🧵
82
1K
11K
Marc Andreessen says, "Balaji has the highest 'good idea output rate' of anyone I know" He built & sold multiple $100M+ companies (Counsyl $375M, Earn. com), was CTO of Coinbase & has a PhD from Stanford. His startup idea maze framework is pure gold for aspiring founders 🧵
60
325
4K
I started using vector embeddings in 2008 and have been a mega-fan since then. So it's super exciting to see it becoming mainstream – congrats to @tengyuma & co for going from stealth to acquisition in 18 months, and thanks for letting me invest a super tiny amount!
The risk of hallucinations currently holds enterprises back from deploying AI apps. Excited to share that VoyageAI has joined MongoDB to make high-quality AI-powered search and retrieval easy, enabling organizations to build trustworthy AI apps at scale. https://t.co/8I2x6OLzwR
0
1
58
In 1983, Ritz-Carlton did the unthinkable: They gave every employee the power to spend $2000 without approval. Most thought this was a HUGE risk. But 40 years later, this one rule has revolutionized luxury hospitality forever. Here's the story behind the famous $2000 rule🧵:
122
788
8K
The new OpenAI model announced today is quite wild. It is essentially Google's Deep Research idea with multistep reasoning, web search, *and* the o3 model underneath (as far as I know). It sometimes takes a half hour to answer. Let me show you an example. 1/x
58
407
4K
Transform your PDF documents into dynamic PowerPoint slide shows with this open-source web app! Built with @llama_index and LlamaParse, this repo from @lesteroliver has everything you need to get up and running. https://t.co/Vh9kJc3GRZ
5
21
96
The systems thinking guy is a genius. His unique approach to solving problems transformed the U.S Government, WHO, and General Electric. As a designer, I've helped hundreds of business using his methods. Here’s his framework to fix any problem:
33
310
2K
Traditional RAG sucks because it promises "relevant chunks" but in fact returns "similar chunks". Relevancy requires reasoning. Introducing ReAG - Reasoning Augmented Generation
151
292
4K
So DeepSeek situation summarized: *They are not a small engineer team but one of the leading frontier lab (+100 researchers full time). *They are not a newcomer. Started in 2023 by retraining a llama, then slowly rising to the top. All documented in their 16 (!) papers.
112
1K
14K