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Sunil Pai
Personal blog · sunilpai.dev/postsprogrammingai
Sunil Pai writes Solving the decision problem, a personal blog at sunilpai.dev about programming and ai. Since 2024, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Where good ideas come from (for coding agents)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment links this blog, pointing to the epilogue of a post on where ideas come from when coding agents are involved. The commenter discusses what junior developers' work might become: learning the codebase and making changes from its edges.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sunil Pai writes about developer tools, distributed systems, AI agents, and the craft of making software.
Most-linked posts?
- Where good ideas come from (for coding agents)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-04
- The senior engineer death spiral3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-19
- Original thoughts have terrible UX2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-13
- One Document, Two Hands2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-20
- The next evolution of serverless is stateful2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-06
What Hacker News says?
I touch upon this a little in the epilogue section https://sunilpai.dev/posts/seven-ways/#epilogue-ok-but-doesn... I was thinking what work there really is for "juniors" in this new future, and I suspect the answer then that their "job" is to develop the understanding of the codebase, approaching changes from the edges, and learning how to introduce new changes. (very similar to how people would onboard to a codebas…
Comment linking /posts/seven-ways/
on “Where good ideas come from (for coding agents)”Submitted The senior engineer death spiral as a story · 285 points
HN discussionSubmitted The senior engineer death spiral as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted The senior engineer death spiral as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Original thoughts have terrible UX as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The next evolution of serverless is stateful as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Collecting Favours as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do you like hard problems? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Original thoughts have terrible UX as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Appeal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where good ideas come from (for coding agents) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never Waste a Token as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Call me maybe: AI agents should be addressable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's talk about a task tracking system for AI agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Document, Two Hands as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted the appeal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Task Isn't the Job as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startups Need an Asymmetry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Every Company Needs a Cassandra as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Document, Two Hands as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developer relations after the cheat code machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let the Code Do the Talking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where good ideas come from (for coding agents) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where good ideas come from (for coding agents) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where good ideas come from (for coding agents) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI agents are local first clients as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Full Stack AI Agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Full Stack AI Agents – Solving the Decision Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The next evolution of serverless is stateful as a story · 1 points
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