Sridhar Ratnakumar

I recently went to a playground with my kid, there were a few other fathers there. We exchanged understanding looks and then I realised I have absolutely nothing, zero, nada, in my head to tell them outside of work stuff. I panicked, so I asked if they are using agentic coding, all of them were, we talked about work stuff. There's no escape :)

The “what should I do” question assumes there’s a correct answer, a purpose to fulfil, a meaning to achieve before the clock runs out. But death wipes the slate completely — no scorecard, no audit, no judgment. So the question dissolves.

I recently went to a playground with my kid, there were a few other fathers there. We exchanged understanding looks and then I realised I have absolutely nothing, zero, nada, in my head to tell them outside of work stuff. I panicked, so I asked if they are using agentic coding, all of them were, we talked about work stuff. There's no escape :)

Appreciation is cumulative. Build enough of it and you stop pushing — the momentum picks you up.

This seems more ideological than technical.

if you run an ai lab, pls ensure your team has read this before putting any charts out into the world