Aravind Putrevu
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Aravind Putrevu
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Dev Tools | Builder | Angel Investor

Ex - Fireworks, SurrealDB, Elasticsearch

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Most Developers are naturally introverted, except a few who write personal blogs and post on hacker news :P

PR Reviews is a situation where they have to speak and explain, but it is also a harder soft skill.
April 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Yes, all the team fit rounds, HR rounds, those technical problem explanation questions (where they ask a silly question and we fail, but we get moved to the next round)
April 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I have this feeling: Products lose traction when they stop innovating and stop working on the mission that they started with.

- Organize the world's information: Google
- Make work life simpler, more pleasant and more productive - Slack
April 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
It looks like they are gunning down on Notion, the Atlassian of the world, rather than listening to users.
April 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Let us take a look at Slack. Coming from IRC and the mailing list world, I instantly loved it. Infact, I built a massive community on Slack for Elasticsearch, despite knowing it is a paid-only tool.

Today, with AI, Slack search is poor, and the AI summarization is terrible, let alone workflows.
April 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
They think they know, while they might not. It is like an infant trying to catch the orange-ish charcoal, thinking it is a color that doesn't harm.
April 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I guess the emergent behaviors with LLMs (ofc configured by LLM providers) are making and executing decisions.

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This is where we and AGI-ready LLMs probably diverge.
April 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I want something else, and it would probably have been good if it had stopped by Step#1.
April 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
That being said, LLMs, too, lose their charm if the extra examples don't give me results. For example, several times, I try to generate something that fails miserably. After three attempts, I turn to human help!
March 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM