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May 25
Using a private jet to deliver pizza 🍕:)
Not Anymore ! AI subsidy era is over.
Reminds me of companies in 90s / early 2000 rationing internet / YouTube data use.
The #AI architecture now has to be “cost-aware”.
Free model ≠ Cheap Production
Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.
The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.
They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:
Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.
Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.
Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.
The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.
Uber's story is even worse...
Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.
Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.
Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.
The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.
Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:
"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."
This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.
Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.
Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:
AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.
The stock market rewarded every company that said it.
Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.
But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.
Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.
Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.
Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.
And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.
The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.
This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.
$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.
What do you think?
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Mar 13
“We’ve swapped the motor; we have not yet redesigned the factory.”
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Mar 10
Cowork's biggest win here might be distribution via MSFT’s enterprise moat, gets massive scale, credibility without building the sales machine! MSFT back in the agent race without reinventing the wheel themselves. “The model doesn't win - distribution trust does!” Win-win 🚀
Mar 9
Announcing Copilot Cowork, a new way to complete tasks and get work done in M365.
When you hand off a task to Cowork, it turns your request into a plan and executes it across your apps and files, grounded in your work data and operating within M365’s security and governance boundaries.
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18 Nov 2025
Unlike India - where no one’s career depends on AQI - in China, your promotion literally depends on cleaner air. You REAP what you REWARD.
India is not short on brains, money, data, or technology. It’s short on aligned incentives. #AQI
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4 Jun 2025
@amazonpay @amazonIN I simply want to describe my fast tag and it says call customer service > will take 25 days 🙄🤯 which time and age are you guys living in ?!
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Shashank Upadhyay retweeted
8 May 2025
“Bahawalpur.”
I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town’s name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city — Bahawalpur — in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists.
When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India’s Kashmir state, I had one city’s name on my lips: Bahawalpur.
Did India bomb Bahawalpur?
It did. I knew then India was striking actual hubs for Pakistan’s homegrown domestic terrorism.
Why do I know?
My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan’s militant groups after a strike by Pakistan’s terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur.
He literally knocked on their doors. Dear Dr. @yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny’s reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: “I’m anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I’m not anxious to die.”
What did Danny learn?
The militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur.
On Jan. 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview.
I learned Danny’s fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named “Arif.” Danny didn’t know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif’s hometown? Bahawalpur.
The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif’s family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan’s border with Kashmir.
It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities.
Arif had handed Danny off to Omar Sheikh,a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalized in the 1990s in London mosques. He went to Pakistan to train in these militant training camps. Then he kidnapped tourists in India. He was caught and jailed but on Dec. 31, 1999, he was traded for hostages in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.
Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India’s air strike in Bahawalpur.
Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India’s jails?
No. Pakistan’s military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others.
Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can’t blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s.
Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases — for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir.
You will see parallels in the propaganda messages against India and Israel. Like Hamas, Pakistani terrorists crossed a border to kill. Now, Pakistani propagandists call themselves victims of their “fascist” “colonizer” neighbor.
It’s the Reverse Uno strategy of moral inversion, just like @stoolpresidente got from the Temple student who won’t take responsibility for promoting the “HATE THE JEWS” sign. Don’t fall for it. Nations, communities and people must own up to their extremism, from Bahawalpur to beyond.
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10 Feb 2025
So I checked. Top cities, metros are not even featuring in the Top 10 Winter 2025 list! Look at the numbers. Delhi is at # 19🤯 My location Pune AQI is 116 right now, still poor for a morning walk 😅
4 Feb 2025
By the way, AQI.in is a great source for tracking air quality. The only issue is that it only shows data for places with weather stations—and those aren’t available everywhere. If you can afford it, I think it makes perfect sense to get your own AQI monitor. But yeah, do check it out. The worst months for AQI in India are between August and January. 2/3
aqi.in/air-quality-map
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14 Dec 2024
“Strong Warning” ya “blackmailing” ?!! And Pune City Police succumbs to the threat !! Law enforcement has become a joke!#NH7Weekender cancelled !! #NH7 #Pune @CPPuneCity
14 Dec 2024
The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has issued a strong warning against the NH7 Weekender Music Festival scheduled in Pune, threatening aggressive action if the event goes ahead as planned. The party has expressed concerns over the cultural impact of the festival, particularly on the city’s youth.
#MNS #NH7Weekender #PuneProtests #MNSAction #PuneEvents #CulturalConcerns #MusicFestival
(MNS, NH7 Weekender, Pune, music festival, cultural integrity, youth, Maharashtra, political stance, event opposition)
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14 Dec 2024
Putting a ban is easy! Maintaining peace, law and order is difficult 🙄 #Pune #NH7 #NH7Weekender Cancelled !!
14 Dec 2024
कायदा व सुव्यवस्था राखण्यासाठी महत्वाचं पाऊल; जिल्ह्यात २७ तारखेपर्यंत प्रतिबंधात्मक आदेश लागू
#punenews #Pune #Police
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14 Dec 2024
Nh7 day 1 cancelled because of police telling them the music is too loud, they even stopped soundchecks, it's a music festival what do you expect, silent music?
Pune will pay the artists and fans for their time I guess...
#ModiHaiToMumkinHai
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26 Jul 2024
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26 Jul 2024
Capital Gain Tax changes:
Whom does it benefit; Whom does it hurt?
We all know the headlines
How much has been the tax change on equity and equity mutual funds
And on real estate
But let's go a bit deeper.
I saw an interview of the Finance Secretary saying that the capital gains on equity was largely paid by people with income of over Rs. 1 crore or at least 50 lacs per annum - with a smile that said: I am only taxing the rich.
But in terms of the quantum of tax paid that will always be the case.
Say a promoter does a block deal or offer for sale or strategic sale for a few hundred crores, obviously the capital gains will be a large amount. But that does not mean that capital gains is not relevant as a percentage of THEIR income for the business person or salaried professional lower down the income scale. More so now when retail participation in the equity markets, directly or indirectly, has been going up rather dramatically.
Now for real estate. All of us have seen those calculations over the last 2 days. But for a recap before we go into the nuances:
If you or your parent had bought a house or flat for 1 crore in 2001 (taking a round number just for ease of calculation) that is now sold at say, Rs.4 crores.
Before July, your indexed cost would have been rupees 3.63 crores which meant that you would have paid 20% (not including cess) on 37 lakhs which is 7.4 lakhs. NOW you will pay 12.5% on Rs. 3 crores, which is 37.5 lakhs.
The tax cut will be beneficial for people who have bought land, houses, apartments in the last 2-5 years, especially as real estate prices have picked up only 2020 onwards.
Now you use the same filter as the equity capital gains: whom does this hurt and who gains?
Obviously people who are currently already affluent would be the ones who have bought property in the last few years.
Think about who has got large land parcels in the last few years - they will be the biggest beneficiaries of the lower tax.
And who will get hurt? The lower to middle income category because for them the largest chunk of their net worth is ONE property that they own - either acquired by themselves several years/ decades ago or by their parents/ grandparents.
Those who grow up in salaried households would remember that the one ambition many a parent had was 'Ek Ghar before retirement'. It was really their khoon paseene ki kamai - the asset they acquired after a lifetime of hard work. That was the biggest investment that they passed on to their children.
Of course, over the last few years the age of buyers of property has gone down only because of the availability of housing loans but it still remains a very big chunk of the household net worth except for the really rich.
And the longer the family has held the property the worse the tax change implication would be!
If the FM wanted to tax the rich, this is actually doing the very reverse!
Of course, a consequence of this would also be that cash in real estate transactions would once again go up.
#UnionBudget
#CapitalGainsTax
#realestatemarket
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4 Jun 2024
“Modi ji ne democracy bacha li papa” 🙏
#DemocracyWins #400Paar #India #लोकसभा_आमचुनाव_2024 #Modi_ki_Gaurantee
#EVM #ElectionIntegrity
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Shashank Upadhyay retweeted
19 May 2024
2 people killed after a Porsche car, driven by a 17-year-old minor, crashed into their motorcycle in Pune.
Accused Vedant Agarwal granted bail within 15 hours.
Look bail conditions for Accused:
1) Write an essay on accident.
2) Work with Traffic police for 15 days.
3) Take treatment from doctor to help him quit drinking.
4) Take psychiatric counselling and submit the report.
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2 Nov 2023
#Riyadh Immigration comes to a standing halt ! Looks like some major “technical” snag ! Not working for more than an hour now .. not so pleasant end to our trip to Riyadh 😐 #KSA #SaudiArabia
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1 Nov 2022
“It’s too critical to humanity” 😆😝
LOL .. !! Sounds as if the world will come to an end. #mafiatalk
॥ अपूनइच भगवान है ॥😛
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This is so cool :)
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Shashank Upadhyay retweeted
3 Apr 2022
#InactivePMC Allowing illegal encroachments and ruining the landscape of Kharadi. Not possible without PMC and Local Police support. @PMCPune @PuneCityPolice @KhswaPune @CleanKharadi @geradevelopment @anonHaak @nona95903460 @SurendraPathare @aapwadgaonsheri @TOIPune @MirrorPune
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27 Feb 2022
Thanks @DeanScienceBHU @AmiyaKu49864520 @bhupro for the opportunity. It was pleasure interacting with students.Felt really nice, reconnecting with BHU in some form. Best wishes.
25 Feb 2022
Join the Aakanksha talk 3, tomorrow on 26th February 2022, from 4:00 PM onwards on "Learning is the only constant" By Mr. Shashank Upadhyay, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Scale Factor Consulting Labs, Pune.
He is an Alumnus of Faculty of Science from B. Sc. Batch (1993-96).
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