Insight
Namasivayam: Tech Promotions Incentivize Pointless Feature Factories Over Customer Value
“It's a politically incorrect thing to say, but for a lot of product builders, their focus is as much about getting promoted at the end of the appraisal cycle as it is about building a product which really resonates with the audience. And when that is your ince…”
Insight
Namasivayam: Synthetic Humans Must Fail and Complain Unlike AI Agents
“The synthetic human, the best thing which synthetic humans can do, which the AI agents cannot do is they can fail. They can fail at doing a task, which is a reflection of how a real human would fail in using a product. An AI agent will always figure out, or th…”
Insight
Namasivayam: AI Democratizes Building, Making User Understanding the Primary Bottleneck
“My belief, my hypothesis is that product building or generating products is going to get more and more democratized thanks to all the advance in you know, generative AI recently. But what is not getting democratized is user understanding.”
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Namasivayam: Software will increasingly become hyper-customized, on-demand, and ephemeral
“I suspect that we'll increasingly see a world of more and more hyper-customized, on-demand, ephemeral software, which is kind of spun up on demand, used for a certain application, for a certain person, and then it kind of disappears.”
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Namasivayam: Usability, Not Tech Moats, Will Win the Synthetic Human Race
“I think a lot of the companies are going to get it wrong because they are going to be focused, hyper-focused on the technology modes. Technology modes are interesting, but I don't think they are long lasting. I think what is more interesting is, does it just w…”
Opinion
Namasivayam: AMD and competitors are just catching up to Nvidia's stack
“So they imagined a world where you know, you kind of needed the complexity Of semiconductors. And the entire stack. Even back in 2016. Which is why NVIDIA is at the forefront of technology, even today. AMD and others are just catching up.”
Opinion
Namasivayam: Zuckerberg's Town Hall Transparency Was Crucial to Meta's Success
“Final thing which I would also love to point out about Meta was we had this concept of town hogs, and I think the founder's willingness to be extremely transparent and answer all the hard questions you know, it was really good. In a lot of organizations, leade…”
Opinion
Namasivayam: User Research at Most Companies Is Just a CYA Checkbox
“From my perspective, and not everybody will agree with this, I think in the plurality of companies, market research and user research becomes a checkbox, becomes a CYA, as opposed to what the customer actually needs.”
Insight
Namasivayam: Transformer models miss edge-case opinions by defaulting to population averages
“Transformer models, OpenAI, is great at providing feedback on the average, but it doesn't cover the edge cases. Or the edge cases of your opinions. So that's the problem. So ChatGPT is good at persona feedback. It kind of averages it across the population. But…”
What-if
Vasanth: Staying in Bangalore Would Have Led to Derivative Startup Models
“I would think of building startups which kind of follow startups which are companies which have been very successful and kind of replicate those business models in the ecosystem which I work in so that I can be capital efficient without having to, with a high …”
Opinion
Namasivayam: Nvidia's early chip interconnect bet enabled modern AI workloads
“I think even things like communication speeds on chip interconnects, like we were going way ahead of what the rest of the industry was doing. It seems like a small little thing, but that made all the difference when it comes to working with the kind of workloa…”
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Namasivayam: Zuckerberg Personally Drove Meta's Entire Metaverse and VR Pivot
“When I think about the time they shifted from Facebook to Meta, the entire VR, the entire Metaverse was a lot of his driving force behind it. It's incredible how much, you know, energy this person has to kind of make those kind of company-wide chains.”
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Namasivayam: A future AI company will generate real-time hyper-personalized media
“I think there is going to be a company in the future which generates, you know, media content, hyper-personalized to the person, hyper-dynamic, based upon the context of the viewer.”
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Namasivayam: Embodied AI will automate daily household chores by 2035
“I would imagine there is more embodied AI in 2035 as compared to today. If that is true, then that would lead to a lot of automation of, or having AI powered in day-to-day work, like folding your laundry, or, you know doing things which are considered chores.”
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Namasivayam: Nvidia Employee Tenure Nears Ten Years Due to Leadership Loyalty
“NVIDIA is one of the few companies in the Bay where the average employee tenure is probably closer to double digits than single digits, at least when I was working. Primarily because of the loyalty which the leadership team And Jensen engenders in the entire w…”
Assertion Supported
Pendo Found Over 50% of Built Features Are Rarely or Never Used
“I think it was Pendo which found out that more than 50% of products or features built are not widely used by customers, or they're not used at all.”
