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November 2025

Your platform is either a tax or a multiplier
Internal product managers often believe a dangerous myth.
 • Surya Suravarapu
Customer satisfaction is a hierarchy, not a metric
We have all been in that strategy meeting.
 • Surya Suravarapu
Gemini 3 Proves the NVIDIA Tax Is Optional
Google’s Gemini 3 landed last week with impressive reviews: frontier-class performance that beats OpenAI and Anthropic except for its agentic code.
 • Surya Suravarapu
Dead Time Is Story Time
I stumbled on David Maister’s 1985 research on waiting psychology while thinking about loading screens.
 • Surya Suravarapu
The Feature Factory Problem AI Amplifies
Your team just shipped three features this week.
 • Surya Suravarapu
AI Commoditizes Entry-Level Work While Amplifying Senior Value
Everyone’s asking the wrong question about AI and product teams.
 • Surya Suravarapu
Why AI Agents Fail Today Despite the Hype
The agentic AI hype promises autonomous decision-makers that replace employees or dramatically boost efficiency.
 • Surya Suravarapu
Infrastructure Redundancy Stops Before the CDN
Azure, AWS, and Cloudflare all experienced significant outages in recent weeks.
 • Surya Suravarapu
World Models Teach AI to See
On Lenny’s recent podcast, Fei-Fei Li called LLMs “wordsmiths in the dark”: eloquent but ungrounded in physical reality.
 • Surya Suravarapu
AI Agents Multiply Work and Eliminate Jobs Simultaneously
Traditional automation follows a script.
 • Surya Suravarapu
Context Engineering Turns AI Agents From Goldfish Into Assistants
Your AI agent is brilliant.
 • Surya Suravarapu
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