the task isn't the job
a new role, and some questions I want to build my way through
Solving the decision problem
From the desk of Sunil Pai
Latest posts
startups need an asymmetry
A quick note on startups
every company needs a cassandra
an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
one document, two hands
the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
a letter from the orchestra pit
the work of the musician is not the work of the machine
never waste a token
durable inference: resumable streams, crash recovery, and why the LLM request shouldn't die with your process.
Tlön, Uqbar, LLMs, Tertius
The World Will Be Prompt
developer relations after the cheat code machine
(corollary- developer relations is becoming more about helping humans develop judgment around these systems)
let the code do the talking
(why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
the context is the work (what the day-to-day looks like now)
(corollary- pr descriptions are becoming the apprenticeship surface for remote teams and coding agents)
where good ideas come from (for coding agents)
(and the part where users have to level up)
guitars and javascript - the case for jank
worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
drop that meet link
just keep talking
an event bus for ai agents
it is very professional yes
ai agents are local first clients
sync engines finally have a killer app
call me maybe
AI agents should be addressable
Full Stack AI Agents
a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
Durable Objects Callbacks are Weird
but it's also convenient to solve human-in-the-loop for ai agents
Reliable UX for AI chat with Durable Objects
A simpler architecture for reliable, realtime AI chat using Durable Objects
let's talk about a task tracking system for ai agents
AI agents need tracking software, and we need to build it.
The unfortunate truth of software for technologists
It's all about the money, baby
A list of reasons why you should be using Cloudflare Workers for building your AI agent infrastructure/product/personal assistant
(It's only shilling if it's posted during working hours. I'm on my lunch break.)
Three missing primitives in every UI framework
(please build them)
Durable Objects are Computers / Containers / Servers
(everything old is new again)
Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers
Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app
spatial compute
Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
The next evolution of serverless is stateful
(A lot of words about where I think serverless computing is going.)
Odeon Plus
I bought a membership to the movies and it's awesome
smol party: Hello Wololo!
Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
Chatting with Jason Lengstorf about esbuild
An hour and a half discussion about why esbuild is a big deal.
ui (a short story)
“Wake up, Computer”
The problem with importing css
Rethinking how JavaScript projects import, load, and unload stylesheets
solving the jest.mock()+esmodules hoisting problem
A proposal to use jest.mock() with esmodules without babel shenanigans
The problem with iff's design
How node's shared memory model ruins a perfectly good api design
Me Two
Where is my mind?
Feature flags
An introduction to feature flags