Sriram

Update: @philipkiely from @Baseten is joining us for a lightning talk at Agents and Money. The lineup keeps on getting better! If you're building agents that need to be cost-efficient at scale, this is the room to be in, with the best in the game. April 15 | Fort Mason | 5 PM RSVP → luma.com/5nqllmul

“There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time.” There’s a reason that at a certain scale, teams of people have a manager, and then there are managers of many teams, and so on. Companies don’t inherently love being inefficient. It’s because eventually you run into the limits of how much context you can hold on to produce useful work, so you have to delegate parts to someone else who can track their sub-context. In a world where agents don’t need to be prompted or have their work reviewed, or where the agent can know perfectly when to escalate when something is going wrong, then agents can completely break free of these context limits of humans. But for now, agents are generally only as effective as the context they’re provided, the tools they have access to, the human’s ability to keep them on track or review their work, and incorporate that work into a broader system. For now, that will continue to take real (mental) work from the people managing agents. This is also generally why the jobs arguments from those who think people go away will be wrong.

Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week. So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features. And as a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that. 🤣

Think this is a fair critique from @photomatt of EmDash. I remain hopeful it’ll bring a broader set of developers into the WordPress ecosystem. ma.tt/2026/04/emdash…

me and Claude after we took down prod together

3+ hours to kill at the airport and thankfully there's a CSK match!

no matter what’s going on in the world. this is very, very, very freaking awesome

Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/sup…

Gonna be in SF for ~2 weeks starting Monday. DM me if you're around and up for a coffee chat. Also, any tech meetups I shouldn’t miss?

“You’re absolutely right. I meant left”

what

@dharmeshba @abhicantdraw @ponnappa @sumanthrajurs lol

@abhicantdraw @ponnappa @sumanthrajurs If you pay me 50rs I will DM him on your behalf. Welcome to my side hustle.

Hi @ponnappa I would like to refer a smart chap to Realfast. How do I get in touch?😊

Amazing job alert! @ponnappa and @aakashd are hiring lead FDEs. You will be disrupting the USD 3 trillion enterprise services market and have a lot of fun while doing it. svsrecruiting.com/jobs/eb1cp2g

My brilliant editor @MrAkashSharma has a way with words that ages like a great book, settling into you with every turn of creativity, making more sense as you go, becoming truer and fuller. One such statement about doing good work was to let good craft "impress upon you", not just consume it. And god!

@ponnappa single responsibility principle for prompts

/clear > /compact I'm slowly realising - if I can't /clear and continue easily my prompts are badly factored.

@appfactory Oh yeah, absolutely :D

@tsriram We need this recorded!

I can wait on AGI, but can our agents get some money awareness... ASAP? 💸 Most agents are financially reckless by default. Add any complexity and you could one-shot your entire token budget. 🤯 Excited to co-host an evening in SF with @mastra_ai where we dig into the principles behind scaling radically efficient agents with some of the best minds in the arena. On the agenda: → a workshop with @bookercodes 🛠️ → a lightning talk ft. @swyx ⚡ → a fireside chat with @NotionHQ's @sarahmsachs and our co-founder Rajaraman Santhanam 🔥 Followed by food, drinks, and conversations. April 15 | Fort Mason | 5 PM | 100 spots RSVP → luma.com/5nqllmul

Maybe I'll finally understand what it is?

so AIE Europe is completely taking over 🇬🇧London next week! very very hyped to showcase the best companies, research, and AI engineers in Europe! 3 COMPLETELY FREE ways to join in: - there are a dozen side events around town! from Snorkel to GitHub to Arize to ClawCon and Claude Code meetups! - subscribe on YouTube! everything will be livestreamed and published for free @aidotengineer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@aidotengineer - we are releasing 20 more volunteer slots here ai.engineer/associates meant for local, early career folks who otherwise could not afford a ticket! join in/see you in london town!

4/15 | 5PM | Fort Mason Excited to join @sarahmsachs, @swyx, @chargebee, and @mastra to talk about agents and economics. Cheaper tokens == better unit economics for agents I'll talk about 3 inference engineering strategies for making tokens cheaper. luma.com/5nqllmul

You've heard of @Cloudflare Durable Objects... but what are they? What do they enable you to build? What are the platform guarantees? What new patterns do they open up? Good news! I just released a completely free series on Durable Objects! databaseschool.com/series/durable…

My silly prompt injection in my LinkedIn bio actually worked