Varun Mayya's Recent LinkedIn Posts

From 13,000 to 3 winners. Build What Moves India, our hackathon with OpenAI, asked builders to rethink India's public service websites. 13,000 registered, 250 got a week of mentorship, 10 presented live in Bengaluru, and 3 walked away as winners. Thank you to everyone who participated: your time and energy was cha…

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…

So, I’m in my 30s right now, and as you might expect, I’ve seen lots of content shifts come and go. First came simple read-only web, then came blogging, soon we had photos (thanks to Instagram), then videos. Each shift made everything before it feel kinda flat overnight. And now… I think we’re seeing glimpses of whe…

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.

So, I’m in my 30s right now, and as you might expect, I’ve seen lots of content shifts come and go. First came simple read-only web, then came blogging, soon we had photos (thanks to Instagram), then videos. Each shift made everything before it feel kinda flat overnight. And now… I think we’re seeing glimpses of whe…