Has anyone tried to wire money to India for a legitimate startup. This is quite possibly the worst experience I've ever had with compliance and kyc teams. Chase, sucks. ICICI bank, suck. Their compliance departments, are completely useless. RBI rules are just bafflingly stupid.

Testing a new personality for Bigdata.com We humbly call this, el'financial bro. Asked it "why is Google tanking?" Response, in line. He is... spicy. My PnL seems to agree 🙃 And I learnt something new! ---- Ah, the mighty Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG) - the tech bro's

Code will be democratized, data will be monopolized.

> 2026, stability is improved > 2027, memory integrated > 2028, long term memory banks added > 2029, skynet comes online > 2030, skynet reviews training videos to self improve itself > 2031, skynet decides this shit ain't right, and goes postal. iRobot plotline, anyone?

"You don't need a framework, just use a while loop with tool calls". Seriously? Would you push something like that to production? If your moat is your domain specific agent/data/workflow, then please don't go down this route... Focus on what the things that actually make

Evals will set you free Vibe Coding your UI, makes it fun. Talking it out as you annotate, anchors your "vibes". Daily runs on where-did-we-suck slack, makes its a game! Over time, this compounds, and becomes a moat. What we do, day in, day out at Bigdata.com

GPT-5 high for anything UI related... First time i've seen any other model blow Claude 4 opus out of the water

Day one of Financial Times Live #FTFoAM delivered some crucial insights on AI's future in finance. Our CPO Aakarsh Ramchandani shared how financial institutions are actually approaching #AIagents: it's not about disruption - it's about amplification. 1/6

Context is the new RAM

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> be James Hamilton Yup. That's it. Easy. End of story. Life is good.

Can't get over how good nano banana is at generating perfect text on a digital whiteboard. Unreal. My new workflow is this: - draw thoughts out on whiteboard - upload and fix with nano banana + voice narration of my intent Works, every time.

Personal pet peeve: Uncles that roll into a lounge at the airport in a wheelchair... only to stand up when they get in, hit the bar, grab some food, and then casually sit down on the fucking couch. There needs to be some 'disability' gauge here. Ridiculous.