Author: Satyen K Bordoloi

The great Indian workplace is quietly being rewired by people who have figured out cheat codes using AI, but are terrified to tell anyone, except Reddit, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi One of my friends, Akbar (name changed, for reasons that will become obvious), works at a financial analysis firm in Bengaluru (city changed for reasons that will become, well, obvious). Every morning at work, he logs in, opens his laptop, and lets his AI tools do the heavy lifting that used to consume most of his day – pulling data, crunching numbers, building the kind of reports that once required…

The idea of AGI as a federation of tools controlled by an agent is quietly becoming a tech reality – and the joke’s on us for not noticing, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi At the turn of the millennium, in 1999 – the year The Matrix heralded us into the illusions of the digital world – the fastest supercomputer was Intel’s ASCI Red, packing a whole room at Sandia National Laboratories. It was the first system that could do about 2.38 TFLOPS – that’s trillions of floating-point operations per second. Fast forward to 2026, the smartphone in your hand can do…

The Q1 2026 earnings season just delivered a verdict that the AI pessimists will spend the next quarter explaining away, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi Every year, the AI doomsayers find a new reason to press the bubble-burst button only to end up being wrong. In 2023, they claimed the destruction of the world had begun. In 2024, they added the markets to it, calling valuations of AI companies insane. In 2025, the claim was that the revenue wasn’t following the hype. Yet, in 2026, four of the most powerful companies on earth just announced a combined capital expenditure of $725…

While many resisted AI in Hollywood, some were building AI pipelines that are set to change everything about how films are made, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi as he breaks down the new workflow of this new way of making cinema. In the summer of 2023, Hollywood ground to a halt. First, the screenwriters walked out in May, then the actors made their own picket lines in July, making it the biggest strike in Hollywood history. One of the crucial points both the writers and actors were fighting against is the use of AI in filmmaking. After 118 days, an agreement…

The internet, that was supposed to be a bastion of freedom and liberalism, has become the plaything of authoritarian regimes who have figured out unique ways to cage this bird, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi This is something only those born before the mid-80s know. That when internet cafes spread across India in the late 1990s, often we had to book a spot days in advance, wait hours for our turn, and after typing a URL, wait minutes for a simple page to load. Yet, the sense of freedom and wonder we felt when a page hosted 5000 miles away loaded…

Anthropic Mythos is a model so good at hacking with little to no human oversight, it scared its own engineers, but with this capability soon to become common, the company released it anyway, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi Nicholas Carlini has an enviable, fun job – testing Anthropic’s AI to see how good they are, how soon they can crack under stress, and how easy it is to jailbreak them. One Friday evening in February this year – as Bloomberg reported – while he was attending an Indian wedding in Bali, he stepped out, opened his laptop and began fiddling away…

After promising a flirtatious AI that could talk dirty, OpenAI remembered it is not a dating app; yet, the scariest part of this drama is “sexy suicide coach” finds Satyen K. Bordoloi OpenAI did not invent the ‘transformer’ idea that gave birth to generative AI, but carries it in the ‘T’ in its ChatGPT. Yet, because they were the first to the finish line and the brilliant marketeer that CEO Sam Altman is, ChatGPT has become synonymous with generative AI, much as Surf, Xerox, Colgate and Parle-G became “proprietary eponyms” for their categories. That is great for them, but a…

The greatest mystery of the tech world – the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto might have been solved by an intrepid journalist or not, as the truth might take better GPUs to mine, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi In Edgar Allan Poe’s 1844 short story The Purloined Letter, the Paris police tear apart a suspect’s apartment, hunting for a stolen letter they are sure is there. When they don’t find it, they call detective C. Auguste Dupin – the prototype from whom Sherlock Holmes would be liberally borrowed. Dupin finds the letter in minutes, sitting where no one looking for a ‘secret’…

The job market apocalypse is here, and India’s youth will pay the price with their dreams and aspirations, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi Since independence, the traditional advice to Indian children has been: attend college, work hard, earn good grades, secure a good job, and be set for life. Today, this is proving to be a death trap as AI adoption is causing job losses globally, starting with the US. As of June 2025, the unemployment rate for general US workers has been below that for recent college graduates (aged 22–27), at 5.8%, a first since records began. The first waves…

AI use is being vigorously mandated for employees across the board, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi, as he outlines strategies to survive this newest AIpocalypse. Till recently, using AI to do your job could get you fired. If AI can do your job, why are you being paid: went the logic. Now, however, the reverse is happening, at least in the USA, as a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report recently found: employees are now being fired for not using AI. The phrase “AI is coming for your job” has thus undergone a makeover as companies realise that AI, on its own,…