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As street cricketers, we fought with boys from the next street over a cricket pitch.

The sense of belonging was restricted to my street. Rest everyone were outsiders.

Then IPL came. The belonging expanded to my city. I belonged to "Chennai."
Rest everyone were outsiders.

Then I moved to Bengaluru for work. The World Cup was on, and people from all states united as Indians. Now people from other countries were the outsiders.

Notice the pattern.
I always created "outsiders" while feeling my sense of belonging.

This changed when I moved to Germany.
Because there, I was the outsider.

The reality was hard hitting. I bonded with people from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Uganda, Nigeria, Iran, Armenia, Syria, Poland etc. They were all just people. Just like me. Hustling for a livelihood.

My earlier idea of "belonging" got destroyed here and I learned to belong with everyone and anyone through bonds.

And, there are 1000+ reasons to bond.

Dhaval Patel and I bonded to build Codebasics. More people bonded with us on same purpose and then we became a team.

Today when we look at our learners, we don't see states, religions, or countries. We see someone hustling for a livelihood, hoping someone gives them a fair shot.

Here is my take. If aliens invade tomorrow, all 8 billion of us will become one team overnight.

Which means we already are one team.

We just haven't found a reason big enough to notice it.

So don't wait for the aliens :)

Feel the belonging with everyone!
Cherish the bonds.

What makes you bond with people?

Pic: Bonding on good music & rythm with team.

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As a non-native english speaker, I faced critical comments in early days of my YouTube channel. I chose not to take them personally. Instead, I kept learning, improving, and recording.

If I had let those comments stop me, I would never have reached where I am today.

Self-love, self-belief, and trust in something bigger than yourself can take us a long way.

Not everyone will believe in you in the beginning. Sometimes, you have to believe in yourself long enough for the world to catch up.

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P.S. Comments from my jupyter notebook tutorial that eventually got 400K views.

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5 days ago | [YT] | 85

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We are launching a live cohort for experienced data analysts.

This is designed as a simulated experience where you will work as a data analytics manager of food tech company and provide competitive edge to the company by doing the following

1. Use AI to do existing work faster (SQL, Power BI, Excel etc.)
2. Build analytical tools and applications using vibe coding
3. Do process automations assisted by AI
4. Deliver strategy to the leadership team
5. Understanding and practicing stakeholder management
6. Build AI agents for analytical purposes

It will be done over 6 weeks on weekends between 5 to 8 pm IST.

The key outcome of this cohort is to train data analysts to deliver more outcome in the AI era and expand relevance in the market.

If you are interested to know more details, do check the link in comments.

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We completed our teaching cohort last week.

The idea behind this cohort is simple: create better teachers for the world.

We explored the fundamentals of teaching, pedagogy, presentation formats, learner engagement, and how to explain complex ideas in a simple and effective way.

The learners stepped out of their comfort zones, recorded teaching videos, practiced what they learned, received feedback, and built meaningful connections along the way.

Fill out the form in the comments below if you’re interested in joining the next one. There are no fees.

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I was talking to a founder who got burned by relying too much on AI while building a real estate platform.

The founding team is a couple of young folks whose coding life started with Claude Code. They relied on AI too much and eventually the product became buggy. Now they fix one issue and it creates a new problem somewhere else. They have done it so much time and now they are tired, he came to me asking for an advice.

My advice was simple: Human + AI is still better than AI alone.

For production-grade systems, you still need seasoned engineers who can make architectural decisions, understand trade-offs, and validate what AI builds.

AI may reduce the need for task-oriented developers.

But strong engineers who can think in systems are becoming even more valuable.

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 115

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We are launching a new community on this channel: The AI Pro Club

This community is built to provide following benefits

1. To apply AI within your work. This will be done by live building sessions focusing on real business use cases across various domains and functions.

2. Hype vs Reality: Constant update on what's hype vs what's reality - we have a team who tries everything and gives you the stuff that's actually worth it

3. A dedicated Skool community for daily activities, engagement and network building.

If you are interested, give it a try. We have a dedicated team putting a lot of heart into this and you will definitely gain from it.

This is a paid YT subscription which is 5$/Month ~ 360 INR / Month in India.

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Note: If you are joining from the website, you will get the same benefits (live sessions, skool community etc.) except the YT membership (badges, comment highlights etc) hence the price at website is 250 INR / Month.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 92

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Yesterday, a ghost took over my computer and completed some work for me.

That ghost is GPT-6 Astra. I tried it on my two real end to end tasks in computer use mode and wow I was impressed.

Here are the use cases,

1) The stock alerts in my schwab account are basic. I wanted a custom alert system where if a stock in my watchlist is down by certain thresold (say 5%) in the last Y days (i.e. 10) it sends me an email.

2) My video editors are in India, sometimes at 3 pm EST, I've an idea, I record a video and I want to publish it right at that time. But I can't as they are sleeping. What if I have an AI video editor who can do this end to end for me?

I solved both of these problems yesterday with GPT-6 Astra. The amazing part was it was truly end to end. Meaning for (1) it wrote code, published it to github, setup github actions, setup environment variables, it did everything. And it was perfect. The alerts are working already. The project is built, tested, deployed to prod, end to end.

For (2), I connected my camtasia video editor to ChatGPT and it took over control of my computer (computer use) and I felt as if an invisible ghost is working on my computer. It handled retakes, removed pauses and followed my instructions to produce the video. It is 80% to my expectations, I am sure if I build skills, give more context and with model improvements it will get even better.

The rate of progress is mind boggling.

I've made a video sharing this entire experience in case you want to know more, link below.

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 190

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A client recently came to AtliQ with a request I am seeing more and more often:

"We built a prototype with Claude. Can you make it production ready?"

We looked under the hood and found typical AI coding tech stack: Supabase, Tailwind, Node.js. There are decent tools, but the client's actual requirements needed a fundamentally more robust architecture.

This is the new pattern in our industry: vibe coded apps that demo beautifully but have no idea how to reach production and serve real customers.

I think this is the strongest job security signal for experienced engineers in years.

Vibe coding has created an enormous bloat of experimental software. Every one of those experiments that shows promise will need someone to rebuild it properly. Someone who understands scale, security, data integrity, and maintainability.

The demand for building demos is being automated.

The demand for engineering maturity is compounding.

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3 weeks ago | [YT] | 94

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Every year, we celebrate teachers day (5 Sep) as Codebasics Day. This year, we arranged an AI conference where curious minds and experts participated and exchanged ideas at T-Hub Hyderabad.

Thanks to everyone who has been part of codebasics growth journey 🙏

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