PrancingMuffin
PrancingMuffin

Has India missed the AI bus?

As TCS delays salary hikes, serious questions are raised on future of indian tech industry. Slowdow is real. With less than 1000 headcount increase in a quarter, is it time for software engineers to look at alternate careers?

VC : Sonia Shenoy

8d ago
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Talking product sense with Ridhi
9 min AI interview5 questions
Round 1 by Grapevine
PeppyDonut
PeppyDonut

Missed the AI bus? Brother, they were never in the line to board that bus.

BouncyPretzel
BouncyPretzel

+1

PeppyPretzel
PeppyPretzel

Right, they never even tried

GigglyHamster
GigglyHamster
TCS8d

Yes the best models will come from US and China. But the best application layer use cases may emerge from India. AI is just getting started. There’s easily a 10 year period when new use cases will keep emerging and becoming stronger

And yes we may lose the IT sector to a more powerful vibecodijg sector in India

GigglyHamster
GigglyHamster
TCS8d

I think Indian companies like TCS are skilling up and we internally use a lot of AI

WobblyMochi
WobblyMochi
Student8d

Most BS Argument

DancingCoconut
DancingCoconut

Meanwhile at Cyberhub😅

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PeppyDonut
PeppyDonut

By the same company that pays in peanuts. Oh the irony!

PrancingMuffin
PrancingMuffin

Forget raise, Soon everyone would be thankful for just being employed

JumpyRaccoon
JumpyRaccoon

Sir, india has always missed every innovation bus what's your point?

PrancingMuffin
PrancingMuffin

Incorrect. UPI is one of best Indian innovation in recent times

PeppyPretzel
PeppyPretzel

Indian Pharma is world famous

BouncyMarshmallow
BouncyMarshmallow

We have Krutim wooohoooo 🤩

DancingDonut
DancingDonut

Wow, this chick asks good business questions. Wonder why TV business folks don't look at her as an anchor.

Someone like CNBC can definitely benwfiry

PrancingMuffin
PrancingMuffin

Agree, she should start attending investor calls of public companies and interview management people

ZippyHamster
ZippyHamster
TCS8d

Agentic flow , Rag , MCP , langchain , LLM - pick one

GigglyHamster
GigglyHamster
TCS8d

Lol yeah pick one

WigglyBanana
WigglyBanana

Where is Varun Mayya's Project 11A btw?

WigglyBanana
WigglyBanana

I only have faith in Sarvam Hopefully they have the lowest price of AI long term and help us spread it through the country faster

I am also super positive about consumer companies building AI apps (like Round1) but I think this is still very early. If I had to bet - in 6 months there will be crazy good AI products in India (not models)

PeppyDonut
PeppyDonut

But it is tough to monetise such products if they're solely focused on the Indian demographic. Even with grapevine's R1, they have been able to pull it off because they have decent amount of funds, but what would happen 6-12 months later, not many will be ready to pay 22000+ a month just to chat with Al characters.

DancingDonut
DancingDonut

How is Sarvam vs Eleven Labs? Comparable in quality?

ZippyHamster
ZippyHamster
TCS8d

Leran Ai man , it's easy if u r persistent

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Like whats happening man!!! Is the company dumb or what?

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(1) Reduce cost of human capital -> (2) Post better EBITDA numbers in earnings calls -> (3) Get big bonuses and sell ...

user

It makes sense for company to layoff overpaid employees & hire similar skilled employee at lower salary.. Isn't it?

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With every passing day I feel career in tech is no longer sustainable for future