Ram Durairaj

TRANSCRIBE: DAY 1 IN THE BOOKS Transcribe (link in comments) launched this morning. Day 1 metrics: ~3000 visitors. ~1000 transcripts created. The best part of the day was the inbox. Real users (still need to pinch myself that this product has users!) wrote in with bugs, requests, and suggestions. People who used the thing enough to care, complain, and want it better. That's when you know you have something. User feedback told me where to point the agents. Within 12 hours, we shipped: • Spotify URL support • Max video length increase from 60 to 90 minutes • Better bandwidth quotas so the system stops failing over under load On the funnel: 1 in 3 visitors created a transcript. Meaning, two-thirds of visitors bounced. Lowering this bounce rate (and increasing repeat visits) is the roadmap ahead for me and my agent army. Onward on my journey to reclaim my identity as a builder.

If there’s an area where infinite progress is possible, it’s mathematics. AI is not the end of mathematics, it’s the beginning.

No More IAC .. it’s all workflows … sub mini workflows … interesting

@temporalio @CapitalOne

looking forward to the session

at Replay 2026 Temporal conference .. amazing energy here @temporalio

@F5 rocks...strong momentum and we are just ramping up....f5.com/company/news/p…

これまで23年間問われ続けたレブロンの真価がようやく決まったかもしれんな(今更)

Another day of Christina Koch being the coolest person ever

The Eyes of the Skin in 2026 @tanviramesh/note/p-194848593?utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@tanviramesh/n… A thoroughly researched and timely examination of architecture in the age of AI. looking forward to more writing like this, The T Junction @parsonsdesign @TheNewSchool

Pixar was making millions on commercials in 1996. They were good at it. Fast turnarounds, steady revenue and clients loved them. Then Steve Jobs killed it. The math looked perfect on a spreadsheet. But Jobs was watching something else: his best people. Twenty-five of them... Incredibly talented were spending their days on work-for-hire assignments that belonged to someone else. "We reluctantly pulled out because great people are hard to find, and we couldn't afford to have 25 of them making commercials anymore." He saw the trap most companies never notice. Profitable work has gravity. It funds itself, grows and convinces you that doing more of it is the rational choice. But profitable work isn't the same as work that matters. Commercials meant no ownership, residuals or portfolio pieces that belonged to Pixar. Jobs understood something most executives don't: the opportunity cost of keeping talented people busy on someone else's vision is higher than the revenue they generate. Walk away from the millions now, and you keep the 25 people who might build something worth billions later. Stay in commercials, and you lose them, either to burnout or to competitors who offer something to own. This is why great people leave good companies. Not because they want more money. Because they want to build something that feels theirs.

Shoutout to all the dads that paid five grand for this in 2004

We’re not headed to the singularity, but to the multiplicity: an explosion without precedent of varieties of intelligence.

In a decade, we'll look back and miss the chaos, culture wars and shenanigans of the early gen AI days. This shit gets professionalized real' quick. Enjoy the mayhem while we have it. We're all lucky to be in the middle of it.

As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth.

See how F5 Distributed Cloud portfolio helps teams build resilient, multi-path delivery architectures with independent DNS control, continuous synthetic monitoring, and secure failover. This ensures applications stay online even during major outages. community.f5.com/kb/TechnicalAr…

#NGINX Gateway Fabric simplifies this by acting as a single, unified gateway—offering TLS termination, authentication, API routing, and intelligent load balancing for inference pods—all managed via the Kubernetes Gateway API. community.f5.com/kb/TechnicalAr…

Today, Sierra is releasing Ghostwriter, our agent for building agents. With Ghostwriter, you can create an AI agent for your customer experience — one that can chat, pick up the phone, speak dozens of languages, take action on your systems of record, and be protected with industry-leading guardrails — simply by having a conversation. No clicking, no forms, no menus. Codex and Claude Code have transformed how we build software, making it possible for software engineers to orchestrate and review the work rather than doing all the work themselves. We think the same transformation will happen for all software. Rather than every enterprise app having a web app for humans and an API for automation, every software platform’s UI will be an agent that can do the work on your behalf. I recorded a demo of my building and optimizing an agent with Ghostwriter so you can see how powerful and easy it is to use. It’s completely changed the way our early adopters build agents, and it’s changed the way I think about the software industry. Let me know what you think, and, if you’re interested in trying it out at your business, please reach out directly.