Akash Tandon

@AkashTandon

Crafting AI agents & blabbering startup lessons | Built @Looppanel 🏗️ (acquired) | Author @OReillyMedia ✍️ | 2x GSoC 👨‍💻 (open source 💙)

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Joined November 2009

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Akash Tandon
@AkashTandon
Nov 19, 2019
List of titles I've had via internships/jobs in 6 years: - Content editor (news) - Social media manager (Twitter) - Software developer - Data analyst - Data engineer Biggest takeaway: Eventually, nothing else really matters apart from the problem statement.
Akash Tandon
@AkashTandon
Oct 13
Coincidentally upgraded to a paid Cursor plan (again) earlier today and discovered this pricing plan update. Conceptually, this seems convenient - let's see how the execution pans out. 🤞
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@cursor_ai
Oct 12
Cursor is now part of The X Subscription. Current Cursor subscribers can keep their plan or switch to The X Subscription. Paid plans share one usage pool across Cursor, Grok Build, and other Grok products, with twice the coding usage on Grok models as the equivalent Cursor
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@SpaceXSI
Oct 12
We've unified plans across Grok, Cursor, and X Premium. Introducing The X Subscription.
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Akash Tandon
@AkashTandon
Oct 10
Journaling has helped my mental health as much as meditation and workouts, if not more, over the last couple of years. ✍️ Highly recommended!
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Akash Tandon
@AkashTandon
Oct 7
> Will software remain valuable? > Will software development remain a valuable trade? > What about software companies? These questions often get muddled up. Wrote about them in an attempt to clear my head. Feel free to poke holes in my mental model!
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Loose opinions on future of software, developers and corporations
There has been a lot of speculation about the future of software development and knowledge work recently. I have been a software developer for 10+ years and ran a venture-backed SaaS startup for 4+...
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Akash Tandon
@AkashTandon
Oct 3
Helpful slide from Lin Qiao of @FireworksAI_HQ about choosing adaptation/optimization methods for your AI deployments