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> this is a student at IIT Delhi, which has a sub 1% acceptance rate and is one of the most elite schools in the world

Elite schools are full of dumb people. Being good at math doesn't automatically give you emotional intelligence.

> that is smart enough to make a social media app

What, like it's hard? I could've sworn making a Twitter clone was in plenty of "Programming for Dummies" books during the 2010s - and they didn't even have access to LLMs!



making the website is not the hard part. Making all the right design decisions, understanding people and virality is the hard part




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