Pranay Mehrotra — Tech Founder & Writer
I am Pranay. A tech founder, product-guy, working with Applied AI based in São Paulo, Brazil. I also consider myself to be a bit of a writer and a wannabe musician.
I build digital products, try to design resilient architectures, and reflect on the journey. I believe that building a company is as much an act of self-discovery as it is an exercise in actually building it, and that true growth only happens on the edge of comfort. This site has a lot of old stuff, is a reasonably accurate representation of who I am and I hope I don't regret putting it all online.
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Recommended Reading
Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead
"An insider look at how compute scaling, algorithmic gains, and national security will shape the path to AGI."
You just hired a million bad employees.
"AI hasn't replaced human labor so much as inverted its economics. For the first time humans are cheaper than software and it's probably because humans are inefficient at running AI, the same way they are inefficient at running other humans. The good thing is this is creating more jobs than it eliminates."
The Bitter Lesson
"General methods that leverage computation are far more effective than approaches built on human domain knowledge."
Past Automation and Future AI: How Weak Links Tame the Growth Explosion
"Models how physical bottlenecks, safety constraints, and weak links in economic production processes could prevent explosive growth from AGI automation."