At Straive, there’s another Anand Subramanian who gets my emails and I get his emails. Name confusion - despite my last name being listed as “S”, not “Subramanian”. Day-before, we had a double confusion. Pallavi Gupta messaged the other Anand Subramanian who replied to a different Pallavi Gupta connecting me. Like The Comedy of Errors. Out of curiosity, I asked an AI agent to find all duplicate first + last names on Darwinbox. ...
When AI does the entry-level work, what you should learn depends on what it costs to be wrong. AI is replacing entry-level roles, especially technical ones. In the US, Stanford found that since late 2022, employment in AI-exposed jobs like software and customer support fell 16% relatively for 22-25 year-olds. Employment for older workers in the same jobs stayed steady. Matt Beane at UCSB saw this happen in robotic surgery even before AI. Surgeons used to train the next batch of residents. But robotic consoles let surgeons do what residents did earlier, so they stopped bothering with residents. ...
Or, Why I Now Prefer Interns Over Senior Developers Ankor runs a company of several thousand people. After a bunch of calls with one of our interns, Varun (a student at IIT Madras), Ankor messaged me: “This guy is fantastic. How is he doing it?” This is what Varun was doing: he records calls, feeds the transcript to Claude Code / Codex, and delivers results. That’s the whole process. He doesn’t interpret the content. He doesn’t apply domain knowledge. He gets out of the way. ...