Wired for Scale: Sid Rao's Musings

The Average Path

Why Coding Agents Will Write the World's Most Mediocre Software — And Why That's Not the Story You Think It Is

Mar 22 • Sid Rao

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The AI Industry Doesn't Know What Memory Is. And That Should Terrify You.

We solved compute. We're figuring out storage. But memory? We haven't even started asking the right questions.

Mar 8 • Sid Rao

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February 2026

The Software Apocalypse That Isn't

As Usual, We Believe That AI Agents and SaaS are in a Zero Sum Game. This Investor Behavior Really Foreshadows the Coming AI Bubble, Doesn't It?

Feb 24 • Sid Rao

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December 2025

The Purity of Uselessness: Why Academic AI Benchmarks Don't Pay the Bills

Really. The AI Benchmark Industry Just Needs to Stop. Please Stop.

Dec 3, 2025 • Sid Rao

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November 2025

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, 2025 • Sid Rao

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October 2025

Superintelligence Is Dead. Context Is King.

The $200 Productivity Paradox

Oct 25, 2025 • Sid Rao

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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, 2025 • Sid Rao

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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, 2025 • Sid Rao

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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, 2025 • Sid Rao

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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, 2025 • Sid Rao

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July 2025

The LLM-API Challenge (and Opportunity)

When Silicon Valley Met Socratic Method

Jul 13, 2025 • Sid Rao

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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, 2025 • Sid Rao

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