Nobody predicted this. The 60 days travel from 2025 to 2026 was bat-crap crazy.
This one's for the times you need to be consistent.
It has been a busy month. phew.
Small Attention. Big News.
A section for all you reel addicts that won’t read my entire newsletter. I hate you. Love, Sid.
Trump went MVGA on Venezuela!? In things I would never have predicted happening in my lifetime, President Trump has redefined the world as we know it one night.
TIME’s person of the year was given to the architects of AI - which is not one person? TIME’s high. Times are tough. we get it.
Chinese image generators show parts of disputed Indian territories as China’s when asked to generate maps. Furthering the AI bias as a weapon narrative.
Stranger Things final episode was mid.
Meta released Dr. Zero - A self evolving search agent without any training data! this is a big deal for creating more training data from the existing corpus of the internet whereas
https://share.google/AaUuklVkGHtEFpbmF OpenAI is asking contractors to upload documents that SHOULD not be uploaded. Ethics? What? (Waiting for the day Sama realizes this can happen with him easily).
Claude cowork is making waves across the industry. Making many startups obsolete.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Meta-cheats-on-Llama-4-benchmark-10344087.html Mark does not stop cheating? What’s funny is he did not cheat this time.
Okay that’s enough.
What’s new?
I started the year designing yet another software for TERVA and ended it with Claude writing most of the code. The evolution of coding agents is surreal.
Figma UI generation is mind-blowing too.
My boss was able to create a sharepoint site with azure integration and zero coding. Thanks Claude for the job insecurity.
My work on an event photography platform is still in progress. With only 2 tasks completed last month.
This newsletter is as short as your attention span! (Mostly because I am traveling home :3 ) but you have to check out my website at https://www.siddhantshah.me - that is a no brainer.
Favorite image of the year
