Varun Mayya's Recent LinkedIn Posts

Career advice for engineers right now is mostly noise. Everyone has an opinion, everyone has a take, and most of it is either obvious or just wrong. That's why I decided to sit down with Mohak Shroff, SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn, to figure out what was really going on. And to my delight, he was direct about thi…

Militaries are now using real, AI-powered “spy” cockroaches! A startup called SWARM Biotactics has just built something called a "bio-robotic scout." It’s basically a living cockroach with a tiny “backpack” housing a camera, a mic, a transmitter for communications, and an AI chip for local data processing.

Sam Altman just said training a human child takes more energy than training an AI model. yeah he actually said that. Altman's argument is simple. People complain about how much energy AI uses, but nobody talks about the 20 years of food and energy it takes for a human to become useful. He says if you compare one AI…

Sam Altman just said training a human child takes more energy than training an AI model. yeah he actually said that. Altman's argument is simple. People complain about how much energy AI uses, but nobody talks about the 20 years of food and energy it takes for a human to become useful. He says if you compare one AI…

Militaries are now using real, AI-powered “spy” cockroaches! A startup called SWARM Biotactics has just built something called a "bio-robotic scout." It’s basically a living cockroach with a tiny “backpack” housing a camera, a mic, a transmitter for communications, and an AI chip for local data processing.

Career advice for engineers right now is mostly noise. Everyone has an opinion, everyone has a take, and most of it is either obvious or just wrong. That's why I decided to sit down with Mohak Shroff, SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn, to figure out what was really going on. And to my delight, he was direct about thi…