087 - Tsun"AI" Warning 🌊
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Dhruv and Ravi are back to talk about the rise of agentic AI — their experience with Claude Code and Cursor, what agents actually are, and why they think a tsunami is coming for software engineers and knowledge workers. The Tsunami Warning The feeling since late 2025 — prapancham roju roju ki maripotundi The COVID masks analogy — we are those people now Why the folks back home aren't feeling it yet Timeline — How We Got Here GPT-2 (2020) → ChatGPT (2022) → Cursor (2023) → Claude Code & Opus 4.5 (2025) The Evolution of AI Coding Chat interface — copy-paste snippets...
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086 - Animal (2023)
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This episode was recorded in December 2023 but published in June 2025 (sorry, listeners!) Dhruv and Ravi dive deep into Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s blockbuster Animal and what worked / didn’t work for them. Maharshi’s AI OS - a reality in 2023 Editor’s note: This is even more impressive in late 2025 as we publish this Arjun Reddy - Revisited SRV’s obsessive defense of Arjun Reddy Animal - Expectations Deep Dive Animal Park Why was it such a blockbuster?
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085 - Game Changer No More?
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Expectations on Game Changer The fall of Shankar The Shankar Formula GC - What went wrong Positives and Suggestions Other comments Closing thoughts
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084 - Cricket World Cup 2023
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On the eve of India's opening match, Praveen, Aravind and Dhruv do a curtainraiser episode. We talk the tournament's timing, dew factor, thoughts on each squad, Team India team combinations and predictions. Enjoy! Lack of buzz - IPL and cricket overload? Organization of the tournament - BCCI & ICC Dew factor - playing in Oct/Nov in India Round robin format - pros and cons Squads - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Netherlands, Sri Lanka South Africa at 6 New Zealand at 5 Pakistan at 4 Australia at 3 England at 2 India at 1 Team India combinations Our predictions
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083 - Other Films of 2022 feat. DJ Tillu
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Dhruv and Ravi review the other films of 2022: Shyam Singha Roy Ante Sundaraniki Ori Devuda and Paagal Skylab F3 Vikram Ponniyin Selvan I Sarkaru Vaari Paata DJ Tillu A star is born Favorite punchlines
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082 - KKK: KGF 2, Kantara and Karthikeya 2
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Dhruv, Ravi and Aravind critique 2022 pan-Indian films starting with the name K - KGF Chapter 2, Kantara and Karthikeya 2 KGF: Chapter 2 Delivers on expectations? Drawbacks Kantara Why it became a blockbuster Drawbacks Karthikeya 2 Hype Drawbacks
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081 - Radhye Shyam and Sita Ramam
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Dhruv and Ravi review two pan-indian period romantic films from 2022 - Radhye Shyam and Sita Ramam. Intro Radhye Shyam Buzz Story What went wrong? Sita Ramam What went right?
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080 - RRR
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Dhruv, Ravi and Aravind review India’s biggest film of 2022 and Oscar contender - SS Rajamouli’s RRR starring NTR and Ram Charan. Intro Viewing Experience in India and US (and meeting SSR) First Half Our issues with the film “Gun Uncle” - the gun-thirsty villager in RRR Ajay Devgn Flashback Performances - NTR and RC Other thoughts Tiger memes
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079 - Pushpa: The Rise
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Continuing on our Movies of 2022 series, Aravind, Dhruv and Ravi go over Pushpa: The Rise - the Sukumar & Allu Arjun blockbuster.
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078 - Movies of 2022: Akhanda, Acharya, Godfather, Bheemla Nayak
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In Part 1 of our “Movies of 2022” review series, Dhruv and Ravi review four big-star films of 2022. Akhanda - why it became a blockbuster Acharya - what went wrong Godfather - why we liked it Bheemla Nayak - why we didn’t like it
info_outlineDhruv and Ravi are back to talk about the rise of agentic AI — their experience with Claude Code and Cursor, what agents actually are, and why they think a tsunami is coming for software engineers and knowledge workers.
- The Tsunami Warning
- The feeling since late 2025 — prapancham roju roju ki maripotundi
- The COVID masks analogy — we are those people now
- Why the folks back home aren't feeling it yet
- Timeline — How We Got Here
- GPT-2 (2020) → ChatGPT (2022) → Cursor (2023) → Claude Code & Opus 4.5 (2025)
- The Evolution of AI Coding
- Chat interface — copy-paste snippets from ChatGPT
- Assisted coding — Cursor tab-complete, you drive, model navigates
- Agentic coding — the agent drives, you're the passenger
- Cursor vs Claude Code — why Claude Code wins
- The Autopilot vs FSD analogy
- WTF is a Model?
- Giant N-dimensional matrices with weights
- Text in, everything out
- Bigger model, better responses
- WTF is an Agent?
- Model = brain, Agent = human
- Agent uses the model to operate tools — like a robot with a task
- Inference and Context Engineering
- Sessions, prompting, context windows
- SWE = Context Engineering + Verification Engineering
- Memory, Skills, and the Matrix Kung-Fu analogy
- Agent Harnesses
- Claude Code, Cursor, Agent SDKs
- Programming in English
- It's fun, addictive, and an art
- Communication skills over coding skills
- Good taste, strong architecture, trash your prior beliefs
- My Thesis — And How It Was Wrong
- Thought it'd hit "IT workers" first, not Big Tech
- But the tsunami hits the coast first — US and Big Tech have closed loops
- Tesla car Dharavi slums lo nadavadhu — we paved 6-lane roads for AI
- Knowledge Work, Manufacturing and Farming
- Any work where you can "close the loop" is at risk
- Manufacturing with QC — robots were always there, programming them was hard
- Farming — mostly done
- What is Still Scarce?
- Ideas, customer acquisition, creative content, land
- Creating software is no longer scarce
- Ippudu Em Cheyyamantaru Saar?
- We don't need SWEs, we need builders
- Product sense, distributed systems, build-sell-ship quickly
- The existential dread — we don't have 10 years, or 5, or even 2
- Collective mental health crisis and economic reshaping ahead
- The fire storm is coming