MSManthan Surkarinblog.surkar.in·6d ago · 14 min readCan we not 'skip to the good part'?There is a song by AJR called "The Good Part" with a line that goes "it's so hard, can we skip to the good part?" In the song it is about life, he is tired of the slow uncertain middle and just wants 31H
MSManthan Surkarinblog.surkar.in·Mar 15 · 10 min readThe Fast Food Problem with AI CodingI am about to compare AI-assisted coding (vibe coding in some sense, but not necessarily all forms of it) to fast food. I know that sounds odd, and it is not an obvious parallel. This is not an AI ske00
MSManthan Surkarinblog.surkar.in·Nov 13, 2025 · 4 min readWho Does Hard Things, and WhyPeople do all kinds of work, some of it is easy and some of it is absurd. What is really interesting is when people do really hard things, ones that have a very low probability of success. These are things like starting startups or doing things that ...00
MSManthan Surkarinblog.surkar.in·Jun 28, 2025 · 8 min readPrompt Smells, Just Like CodePrompt Smells The term "code smell" was introduced by Kent Beck in the late 1990s. It was meant to capture something deeper than just bugs or technical inaccuracies. Code smells help us identify poor design fundamentals that lead to low-quality code....00
MSManthan Surkarinblog.surkar.in·Jun 22, 2025 · 23 min readAI Agents Under The HoodMotivation: Why You Should Care Not a day goes by without hearing the term “AI agent.” I have built multiple systems that use AI agents, like patra.app. While building those and reading through a lot of resources, I learned how AI agents actually wor...02RH
