Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
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Sunil PaiSystems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026we say we want disagreement, but every disagreement costs the person making it a little social/political capital. do it often enough and you become the negative person. people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.↗every company needs a cassandrasunilpai.dev · 9 Aug 2026
Their wordswe say we want disagreement, but every disagreement costs the person making it a little social/political capital. do it often enough and you become the negative person. people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.
Sunil PaiSystems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026an ai is oddly well suited to this job. cassandra doesn’t want a promotion and doesn’t need the people in the channel to like her. disagreeing with the vp three times this month won’t show up in a performance review. she doesn’t have an ego invested in being right either.↗every company needs a cassandrasunilpai.dev · 9 Aug 2026
Their wordsan ai is oddly well suited to this job. cassandra doesn’t want a promotion and doesn’t need the people in the channel to like her. disagreeing with the vp three times this month won’t show up in a performance review. she doesn’t have an ego invested in being right either.
Sunil PaiSystems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026you just help people, and then ten years later something happens and all these relationships that you didn’t even realise you were building suddenly become visible.↗Collecting favourssunilpai.dev · 8 Oct 2026
Their wordsyou just help people, and then ten years later something happens and all these relationships that you didn’t even realise you were building suddenly become visible.
Sunil PaiSystems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026buuuut my roadmap is’nt ten times shorter. and I’m definitely not ten times better at deciding what is worth building. teams haven’t started casually shipping a year of product work every month. you can look around and and it’s hard to say what software has gotten meaningfully better in the last year.↗the task isn't the jobsunilpai.dev · 14 Aug 2026
Their wordsbuuuut my roadmap is’nt ten times shorter. and I’m definitely not ten times better at deciding what is worth building. teams haven’t started casually shipping a year of product work every month. you can look around and and it’s hard to say what software has gotten meaningfully better in the last year.