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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  Coding agents made implementation cheap without making roadmaps shorter or software better -- the binding constraint was never how fast code gets written.

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  buuuut my roadmap is’nt ten times shorter. and I’m definitely not ten times better at deciding what is worth building. teams haven’t started casually shipping a year of product work every month. you can look around and and it’s hard to say what software has gotten meaningfully better in the last year.

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Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  Even a long-horizon deep tech company should chase revenue sooner than it thinks, so that it is valued on its roadmap rather than on its probability of dying.

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  you do need to think about how do you get to revenue so that not just you can do it forever, but then you'll be valued on your long-term road map, not not valued on your probability of dying.

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  People freeze into relationship roles for predictability, but ongoing internal change eventually makes those roles confining.

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  We freeze into roles because we need some predictability, but we're also changing internally all the time, so our roles eventually become confining.

  Without hope of resolutionsashachapin.substack.com

Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.

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  Cheap delivery turned the roadmap-of-features model into a feature factory that produces bad products faster.

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  Much of the product world now recognizes the project model as a turbo-charged feature factory, capable of producing more bad products, faster, than ever before.

  Build to Learn vs Build to Earnsvpg.com

Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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  Breaking up a monolith takes years rather than months not because the work is hard but because the business keeps adding to it faster than you can pull pieces out.

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  had we freeze time, that piece of code could be decomposed in a matter of 3 to 6 months. But it took us 2 years to do that because as we peel out a piece of code, the business keep on going forward, right?

  Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com

Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

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  Product-market fit can be measured, optimised and numerically increased, and an algorithm can write the roadmap that increases it.

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  which is number one, you can measure product market fit. Number two, you can optimize product market fit. Number three, you can systematically even numerically increase product market fit. And number four, you can even have an algorithm write your road map for you.

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