Sunil Pai
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it's a sad reality of the world we live in that people are still judged for things entirely outside their control, things they were born with and cannot reasonably be expected to change.
13 October
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CloudflareTheir words
96% of remaining projects would fit on cloudflare's free tier
12 October
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Original thoughts do not scale.Their words
also, these original thoughts, they don’t scale. every new one needs an investment of time and energy, and there’s no guarantee that either that one’s good or the next one’s going to be good. you can’t reuse much of the work, and maintenance itself is a huge cost.
11 October
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every piece of this stack would’ve been rejected for weekend projects a year ago because you’d have to spend too much time/effort/“innovation tokens” because of the unfamiliarity. now it’s actual fodder for ambitious and innovative ideas
8 October
From one piece Collecting favours 3 beliefs · sunilpai.dev
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we made a contraption that speaks back to us of the secrets of the universe and it becomes a moral responsibility to parse it and better the human condition a worthy endeavour and one I hope the species lives up to
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you just help people, and then ten years later something happens and all these relationships that you didn’t even realise you were building suddenly become visible.
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You shouldn't make people earn your help by being perfectly polite while they're having a bad time.Their words
you shouldn’t make people earn your help by being perfectly polite while they’re having a bad time.
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When someone has a problem, you should solve the problem first and deal with everything else later.Their words
someone comes to you with a problem, just help them with the problem first. figure out the rest later.
6 October
From one piece @threepointone on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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In 2026, there will be a cheat code machine that has infinite breadth and depth for pattern matching.Their words
Unfortunately, in 2026, well, you have a cheat code machine that has infinite breadth and depth for pattern matching.
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The thing I learned this year is that when engineers say they like working on “hard problems”, they actually don't. What they like is puzzle solving, and having a repertoire of patterns that they can pattern match onto traditionally hard problems, usually involving databases or something with scale, etc.
5 October
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I need to shake my public facing friends at AI companies (devrels, posters, etc) and beg them to start using their natural voice more and stop performing like it's the zirp years, it's a red flag and you're painting yourself into a corner.
4 October
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what that implies about your information diet / environment, and whether it’s good for you
3 October
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Consciousness is just a pattern-matching mechanismTheir words
consciousness itself is just a pattern matching mechanism. bugs have consciousness.
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Machines can be consciousTheir words
I absolutely think machines can be conscious, and it’s not a dramatic thing to believe.
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Something currently called psychosis should at some point, perhaps now, be recognised as actually being euphoria.Their words
at some point (now?) we should stop calling it psychosis, recognise that it’s actually euphoria
27 September
From one piece @threepointone on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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mf you can barely decide what discomfort you're subjecting yourself to in finding out what you like/dislike, and I'm supposed to trust you to make decisions for millions of people?
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people think I'm joking when I tell them that to develop taste for software they need to have brunch with their friends, watch old movies and find old records, walk around metropolitan cities and observe how the building styles lend to the personality of the people around them, but I'm so fkin dead serious.
21 September
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You can’t bring AGI to the world without a specific story of how it’s going to benefit everyone
19 September
From one piece the senior engineer death spiral 2 beliefs · sunilpai.dev
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remember, you are in the reputation-building business, and software is actually downstream of that.
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big projects are not done with big efforts. it’s a big marathon, just slow, steady, incremental work.
15 September
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New York would be a wonderful city to walk everywhere if people were not openly smoking weed on the streets.Their words
new york would be a wonderful city to walk everywhere, if everyone and their mother wasn't openly smoking weed on the streets
14 September
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foundation is ostensibly a sci-fi series about empires, psychohistory, and hard technology, but really it's about individuals with extreme agency and puzzle-solving ability having wildly outsized impact on a universe that would otherwise just sit there waiting to decay
9 September
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we really need 1 million experiments in this space of "security against autonomous attacks and entities"
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Next TokenTheir words
you should watch the podcast named after making stuff up all the time : @NextTokenShow
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Durable ObjectsTheir words
the best days of durable objects are ahead of us
14 August
From one piece the task isn't the job 4 beliefs · sunilpai.dev
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tasteeducationideas vs execution
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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From one piece every company needs a cassandra 3 beliefs · sunilpai.dev
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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Real-time sync enginesTheir words
there’s also a great post on sync engines by Adam Nyberg
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