Wired for Scale: Sid Rao's Musings

An Open Letter to the AI Industry: Pump the Brakes on Agent Hype

I'm just sick of staring at AI agent frameworks that are platforms without customers. I'm sick of AI prophets trying to classify an organism that is a…

Nov 4 • 

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October 2025

Superintelligence Is Dead. Context Is King.

The $200 Productivity Paradox

Oct 25 • 

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AI Adoption: Not a Zero-Sum Game

Really, the prophets need to chill. This is a long game. And neither side will win.

Oct 1 • 

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August 2025

I Joined Oracle to Fix Your AI's Memory Problems (And Yes, That's a Real Thing)

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 95% Failure Rate

Aug 27 • 

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Blueprints Over Banter: How a Tiny SVG Outsmarted a Giant Context Window

The autoregression mechanism of transformer-based LLMs simply isn't inherently causal

Aug 15 • 

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Supastate: The Amnesia Epidemic: How We Gave Claude a Memory (A Technical Journey)

A Technical Journey of Working Through Context Windows... Built by a Developer for Developers

Aug 5 • 

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July 2025

The LLM-API Challenge (and Opportunity)

When Silicon Valley Met Socratic Method

Jul 13 • 

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Code So Fresh It's Still Dripping Wet Paint: Meet Camille, Your New Favorite Security Guard

Your AI intern wrote code. Now what?

Jul 11 • 

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AI Is Not Your Guru: Why Your Business Needs Practitioners, Not Prophets

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worshiping the Algorithm and Start Actually Using It

Jul 9 • 

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The Great AI Token Heist

Why Developers Are Burning Money on the Wrong Models

Jul 6 • 

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The Intelligence-Latency Paradox: Why AI Teams Beat AI Individuals

Like a jazz ensemble that creates music no single musician could achieve alone, AI agents are discovering that thinking together beats thinking fast

Jul 4 • 

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We Simulated 12 AI Researchers and They Just Suggested AGI Costs $50M, Not $50B (Here's the Code)

"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." -Back to the Future

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