Kush Bhuwalka
What I do:
- building AI for construction at developiq.ai
 - cs @ rose-hulman '23
 - prev founder @ drophouse.ai (we sold t-shirts)
 
Lore (this is one of the cooler things i've done):
After the t-shirt company, I moved to San Francisco to explore a new idea (drove across the country, spent 3 weeks in Park City, Utah, it was great). The idea of bringing AI to a legacy industry was naturally appealing, so I started attending random conferences and yapping to people. Construction stood out, it felt huge and under-served, and I enjoyed talking to them.
I didn't actually know anything about construction, and conversations were only taking me so far. So somehow, after 100s of Reddit and LinkedIn DM's, I landed a job with a company out in Indiana. I spent a month working for them in a trailer out in the middle of nowhere.
It was hard at first, with even my Uber driver asking me what I was doing there. But I stuck it out, and it ended up being a great experience. And now we're building AI for construction.
rando/everything:
- favourite book: tied between the kite runner and the like switch
 - hobbies: chess, soccer, running, building
 - 5x hackathon winner - built some cool stuff with agents & mcp
 
What I believe:
- knowledge compounds exponentially
 - halo effect is real
 - keep score
 - incentives are super powers
 - relentlessly prune BS
 - high agency = clear thinking × bias to action × disagreeability
 - beware of cognitive biases
 
I think AI is our best bet at ascending the Kardashev scale
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