Sunil Pai

Beliefs Korrents

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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.

    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.

    the task isn't the job Said 14 Aug 2026

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  • Agent autonomy is a capability, not a product direction: what the person is actually trying to do decides whether more of it helps or ruins the thing.

    we tend to describe progress in agents as progress in autonomy: first they could do five minutes of work, then an hour, now we talk seriously about agents running for days. that’s impressive, but autonomy is a capability, not a product direction! the Job To Be Done tells you whether to use it.

    the task isn't the job Said 14 Aug 2026

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  • A machine can complete the task and completely miss the job -- coding makes this easy to see precisely because its tasks are so legible and verifiable.

    a cybernetic machine can nail the task and completely miss the job. coding makes this very very easy to see because the tasks are so legible (and verifiable!): write the function, migrate the API, fix the tests.

    the task isn't the job Said 14 Aug 2026

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  • Cheap intelligence does not make agency cheap, and these tools may mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and time.

    making intelligence cheap does not automatically make “agency” cheap. people are constrained by time, money, confidence, health, education, institutions, family, geography; a model does not magic any of that away. there’s a perfectly believable future where these tools mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and the spare time to use them well.

    the task isn't the job Said 14 Aug 2026

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  • Organisations say they want disagreement but charge social capital for it, until people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.

    we say we want disagreement, but every disagreement costs the person making it a little social/political capital. do it often enough and you become the negative person. people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.

    every company needs a cassandra Said 9 Aug 2026

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  • Organisational dissent suits an AI precisely because it pays none of the costs -- no promotion to want, no ego, no performance review -- that silence the humans who do it.

    an ai is oddly well suited to this job. cassandra doesn’t want a promotion and doesn’t need the people in the channel to like her. disagreeing with the vp three times this month won’t show up in a performance review. she doesn’t have an ego invested in being right either.

    every company needs a cassandra Said 9 Aug 2026

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  • An agent told to disagree with everything is worthless: it has to form its own view and speak only when that view differs enough to be worth the interruption.

    “you are a devil’s advocate, disagree with everything” is probably the worst possible prompt for this agent. within a week everyone would ignore her. she’d become the slack equivalent of a smoke detector that goes off whenever somebody makes toast.

    every company needs a cassandra Said 9 Aug 2026

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• Everything, newest firstFeed Repos and posts from the cards above, in one stream.

  • sunilpai-dev — my site 14 Aug
  • the task isn't the job 14 Aug
  • startups need an asymmetry 12 Aug
  • every company needs a cassandra 9 Aug
  • signal-bloom — A low-latency guitar effects studio with an AI-assisted pedalboard. 24 Jul
  • one document, two hands 20 Jul

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  • ai-sdk-resume-race-repro 29 Jun
  • a letter from the orchestra pit 24 Jun
  • agent-recovery-viz — An interactive visualization of Cloudflare Agents' chat recovery system. 21 Jun
  • pizzo 21 Jun
  • klocker — kloc churn viz 17 Jun
  • never waste a token 15 Jun
  • Tlön, Uqbar, LLMs, Tertius 28 May
  • test-do-rpc-fetch-ordering 11 Apr
  • developer relations after the cheat code machine 2 Apr
  • dynamic-workers-playground 1 Apr
  • let the code do the talking 13 Mar
  • emojico — CLI tool to convert emoji to favicon assets 28 Feb
  • agents-sdk-openai-websocket-fetch 23 Feb
  • cloudflared-login-worker 27 Jan
  • the context is the work (what the day-to-day looks like now) 7 Jan
  • where good ideas come from (for coding agents) 3 Jan
  • test-zod 21 Dec 2025
  • aywson — Modify JSONC while preserving comments and formatting. 20 Dec 2025
  • get-biggest-dependents 19 Dec 2025
  • repro-vite-exports 18 Dec 2025
  • guitars and javascript - the case for jank 14 Apr 2025
  • drop that meet link 17 Mar 2025
  • an event bus for ai agents 27 Feb 2025
  • ai agents are local first clients 16 Feb 2025