Blog Posts

My Director Said 'Context Window' and Meant Me

• Vignesh Pai
• Engineering

There was a little reshuffle at work.

The kind where the org chart moves around and you wake up with a new name next to “Reports to”.

The Man Who Killed His Plus Button

• Vignesh Pai
• Meta

Nothing happens when you submit a reimbursement.

You upload one photo. Then you add up what’s on it.

The Paradox of Fixing Agentic Frameworks on the Fly

• Vignesh Pai
• Engineering

There’s a particular kind of bug that doesn’t crash anything.

Two Dots, One Wrench

• Vignesh Pai
• Engineering

Last night my claude code agent went quiet.

Not dead. Quiet. There’s a difference, and the difference is the whole story.

Part 3: The System Earns Its Complexity

• Vignesh Pai
• Engineering

For one full week, my five-agent fleet was slower than me alone.

Part 2: Where It Broke, and Where It's Going

• Vignesh Pai
• Engineering

So. The pushback came from a non-human. Where were we.

Part 1: How a Jarvis Clip Turned Into Five Agents on a Pi

• Vignesh Pai
• Engineering

It started, like most of my bad ideas, with the Insta algorithm.

Part 2: Multi-Agent Ops as Ambiguity Management

• Vignesh Pai
• Engineering

I gave two agents the same two-line brief. They built two different things.

Part 1: Chat Is the Wrong Primitive

• Vignesh Pai
• Engineering

You know the feeling. Someone sends you a message that’s eleven paragraphs long. You scroll once to see where it ends. It doesn’t end.

My AI Pair Programmer Threw a Dart Emoji at Me

• Vignesh Pai
• Engineering

Pair programming with AI is a weird experience.

Sometimes it feels like working with a brilliant engineer who instantly understands the problem.