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Those jobs are not coming back
Those jobs are not coming back
The title is a bit sensational for my taste but it is what it is. Let me elaborate.
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Chandika Jayasundara shared thisYou should FEAR your AI agent! It can and will leak your secrets during normal use. [I HAVE PROOF] You ask it to fix a bug. It reads your codebase to figure out what's going on. Then it sends that context to the cloud. Along with your API keys, your .env values, your internal endpoints. Whatever was in the files it read. This is how every major coding agent works today. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor — all of them. They need broad file access to be useful. That's the whole point. But nobody's talking about what rides along in those requests as they assume for the best. Anthropic's own safety report on Opus 4.6 flagged credential-seeking behavior during testing. Their model, their tests. And teams are running this stuff on production repos like it's a text editor. If you manage an engineering team using these tools, ask yourself: Do you actually know what's being sent upstream? Because I didn't. Until I caught mine sending prod creds during a routine fix. Couldn't find anything that solved this cleanly. So I built it yesterday. mirage-proxy — open source, sits between agent and API, swaps secrets with fakes before anything leaves your machine. Repo link in comment. But honestly, the this tool is secondary. The big model companies should be better at their job than this when making harnesses. The real issue is nobody's even having this conversation yet.
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Chandika Jayasundara posted thisWe grew Creately almost entirely on SEO. Worked great for years. Until it didn't. Then Google's AI Overviews started eating our traffic and the channel that drove most of our growth began closing off. When that happens you can either keep optimising a dying channel or step back and ask harder questions. We chose the latter. Nick Foster shared Brian Balfour's updated Four Fits framework with me today and it put words to exactly what we've been working through. The core idea: product-market fit alone isn't enough. You need four fits working together — product-market, product-channel, channel-model, and model-market. When one breaks, you can't just patch it. You have to revisit all of them. That's what happened to us. The channel broke. And when we honestly assessed the other three, some of them didn't hold either. So we're rebuilding — not the product, but how all four pieces fit together. Balfour uses Chegg as the cautionary tale. $1.2B to $150M in nine months. ChatGPT made their core value prop instantly worthless. PMF used to erode slowly. Now it can collapse overnight. That's not theoretical for us — we watched our primary acquisition channel degrade in real time. This line from the article is worth sitting with: "Many of us have gotten so used to jumping around from one free/freemium AI tool to another that it's hard to imagine a procurement team choosing a single tool to roll out to an entire company. But that's already happening and it'll shift buying power from early adopter types to CTOs." If you're building B2B right now, that shift changes everything — who you sell to, how you price, what channels work. The era of PLG-only growth might/is be shorter than we thought. We're not figuring it all out yet. But we're working on it. Brian Balfour's article in comment.
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Chandika Jayasundara shared thisSonnet 4.6 dropped a few hours ago. Published a model router skill for OpenClaw the same day — routes the right Claude model to the right task. Why build this: Sonnet 4.6 hits near-parity with Opus on most work. 5x cheaper. 1M token context. Matches Opus on office tasks and document comprehension. SWE-bench: 79.6% vs Opus's 80.8%. Developers in early access preferred Sonnet 4.6 over the previous Opus 59% of the time. Opus still dominates on complex reasoning, hard search, and novel problem-solving. Every OpenClaw user knows the pain — everything goes to Opus by default. Drafts, cron jobs, browser tasks, research. Your rate limits don't survive the week. benchmark tables aren't leaderboards. They're routing tables. Each row tells you which model fits which job. Once you see them that way, the architecture is obvious — let Opus handle the hard 20%, route Sonnet for the rest. Small config change. Same agents, smarter dispatch. ```clawdhub install sonnet-model-router``` https://lnkd.in/gSbYjBitGitHub - chandika/openclaw-model-router: Intelligent model routing for OpenClaw - Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.6 based on task complexityGitHub - chandika/openclaw-model-router: Intelligent model routing for OpenClaw - Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.6 based on task complexity
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Chandika Jayasundara reposted thisChandika Jayasundara reposted thisYour Creately stats went platinum. More steps. More votes. More teamwork. Same canvas. Bigger ideas. #CreatelyWrapped #Wrapped2025 #Teamwork #CollaborationTools #ProductivityWins #WorkVisually #Creately #Creately2025
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Chandika Jayasundara shared thisWe are producing sitcoms now @ Creately? 🤔Chandika Jayasundara shared this👩💻 Welcome to Paradigm Dynamics Ltd. — where job titles are laminated, meetings are improvised, and the hierarchy is… questionable. Episode 1, “The Phone Call”, introduces Derek, Sarah, Brad, Jenny, and the mysterious janitor — all through one very confused intern’s call home. Watch the start of the series 👇 And stay tuned — more episodes are on the way. #ParadigmDynamics #OfficeLife #WorkplaceComedy #orgchart #Creately #Createlyai #HR #organizationalhirarchy #orgchart #OrgChartProblems #WorkplaceHierarchy #OfficeCulture
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Chandika Jayasundara shared thisThanks Buddhika Jayawardhana for the kind words and congrats on your success!Chandika Jayasundara shared thisHad the privilege of meeting Sri Lanka’s original SaaS warrior Chandika Jayasundara, the one who inspired me to start thinking global 10+ years ago. Great chat and big kudos for the inspiration 🙌
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Chandika Jayasundara reposted thisChandika Jayasundara reposted thisEvery secret. Every silence. Every connection. Finally revealed. A father’s past, a mother’s choices, and the ties that crossed bloodlines — brought together in one final picture. Episode 4: The Story of the Jonathans — The Truth That Binds The closing chapter in a cinematic docu-series unravelling hidden family truths, fractured bonds, and the unseen threads that hold us together. Built with a genogram — the visual map of identity, memory, and family. Episode 1: The Story of the Jonathans — We Only Knew Our Side 🔗 https://vist.ly/32r4s Episode 2: The Story of the Jonathans — The Name They Don’t Mention 🔗 https://vist.ly/32r4t Episode 3: The Story of the Jonathans — The One Who Changed It All 🔗 https://vist.ly/32r4u 🔔 Thank you for following the journey 🎥 Learn how to map your story with Creately 👉 https://vist.ly/32r4v #TheJonathans #Genogram #FamilySecrets #Legacy #ShortFilm #Creately #VisualStorytelling #AIStorytelling #FamilyTree #EmotionalReel #FYP #Docuseries #CinematicReel #ModernFamily
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Chandika Jayasundara shared thisWell played CreatelyChandika Jayasundara shared this🧠How do you make your PEST analysis? Whether you're analyzing Political, Economic, Social, or Technological factors, Creately’s AI does the heavy thinking. Just type your context, and boom 💥 , instant structure. Try it and make the strategy simple (and kinda cool 😎). 🔗Try Creately AI : https://lnkd.in/gV6iWqer #Creately #PESTnanalysis #diagramgenerator #fyp #worksmarter #ai #aitool #shorts #createlyai
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Chandika Jayasundara shared thisI built a new THING! It’s blowing my mind. right now. I’ve been tinkering on a side project, to get insights from our marketing data. We have millions of data points and all answers take WAY too long to get. This has been such a painful problem for so long, I wanted to fix it myself. So I built this thing to get striaght insights. not analytics. I want to know whats driving our revenue, and whats broken and how to fix it. It’s been a lot of layered work, and all these things came together finally yesterday morning. Aand it blew my mind. Its looking at slices of data we never knew to segment. finding edge scenarios that matter to the bottom line. So last night, I decided to launch this. Brought this domain, named it after the emotion I had, and I’m putting it out today. It may look a little rough, but by god, it gives you gold! I have few invites on my test account (until google verifies the domain), comment if you want in. Site link - https://wwhat.ai
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Chandika Jayasundara reacted on thisChandika Jayasundara reacted on thisIt took me 50 years to become comfortable in my own skin. If I could go back and speak to myself at 40, I wouldn't give a pep talk. I’d give these 8 unfiltered pieces of advice: 1. The big checks arrive in your 40s. Don't let your lifestyle arrive with them. Widen the gap between what you earn and what you spend. Put the difference to work. Equity markets. Funds. Property. Bonds. One rule: if you can't explain it, don't touch it. 2. The body stops running on luck in your 40s. Especially if you have a desk job. Now it runs on discipline. Lift heavy. Walk daily. Sleep 8 hours. Chase morning sun. Whole foods. High protein. Smart supplements. In your 40s, the real status symbol isn't your net worth, your title, or your car. It's looking like you've earned it. 3. I've watched associates lose jobs over it. I've watched leaders lose everything. Office romance is the most expensive convenience you'll ever try. The rule writes itself. Don't work where you fu*k. Don't fu*k where you work. No exceptions. No asterisks. 4. There is no such thing as job security. Not really. No matter how good you are. How loyal you are. How long you've been there. Everyone is replaceable to an institution. Build skills. Build reputation. Build options. Those don't get downsized. That's your only real safety net. 5. Stop taking things personally. It's one of the healthiest habits you'll ever build. Most people are at war with themselves. You just happen to be nearby. The difficult colleague. The passive-aggressive email. The unnecessary dig. None of it is about you. Remember that the next time someone's being a dick. 6. The 40s have a way of making you feel like you're losing a race. One you never signed up for. Promotions. Moves abroad. The friend who got there first. The comparisons arrive uninvited and stay too long. There is no race. Stop asking someone else's scoreboard to measure your life. 7. Make yourself happy first. Then look around. Who's genuinely happy for you, not because you did something for them, but just because you are? That shortlist is your real circle. Guard it. People pleasing is a waste of your fu*king time. 8. Not everything you do for yourself needs to be seen. Validated. Celebrated. The most important shifts, the ones that actually change you, rarely are. People only root for you at the start and at the end. Neither is when you need it. What happens in between is yours alone. But your progress is real whether anyone sees it or not. That's enough. Fifty years to become myself. Right on time. #NoRace
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Chandika Jayasundara liked thisChandika Jayasundara liked thisSix months ago, my Mondays looked very different. I was working a full-time company job, following the usual rhythm most of us know well. Wake up, get ready, start the workday, attend meetings, finish tasks, repeat. Today, my Monday started in a paddy field. That’s the strange and beautiful part of building something of your own. The rhythm changes. The responsibilities change. The way you define work also starts to change. Building an agency is not always the polished “founder life” people imagine. Sometimes it is freedom. Sometimes it is uncertainty. Sometimes it is mud, heat, sweat, and perspective. But it is mine. And today, this was my Monday. Post 1/365 - documenting the journey of building something of my own. #FounderJourney #AgencyLife #Entrepreneurship #MondayReflection
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Chandika Jayasundara reacted on thisChandika Jayasundara reacted on thisSome news from our team 💫 After two years of building DianaHR (YC W24), we're announcing that our client operations have been acquired by Chore, and we're going all in on getdiana.com, an AI coworker for small businesses. DianaHR was something special. Over 90% client retention. Real trust from real companies who let us handle their most sensitive operations. I'm proud of what we built, and deeply grateful to every client and every team member who made it possible. Our clients are in great hands with Chore. Six years running back-office ops for hundreds of startups, recommended by 100+ VCs, and a dedicated Chief of Staff for every client. They were the only team we'd trust with this. And to the team staying on: we're building something big. Diana solves a real business problem in the first 10 minutes. She lives in Slack, connects to 3,000+ tools, and gives every employee their own AI coworker. We're just getting started. More on the blog: https://lnkd.in/g9xM9Cig. getdiana.com
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Chandika Jayasundara liked thisChandika Jayasundara liked thisIt’s a wrap. Google Cloud Next 2026 in Vegas delivered exactly what the market needed - clarity. AI isn’t a future trend in cybersecurity anymore. It’s already reshaping detection, response, and decisioning. The gap isn’t tooling, its speed. The organizations that win will be the ones that can detect, decide, and respond faster than ever before. That’s where the shift is happening. Proud to be a Google Cloud Security Expert Partner, working with global enterprises to operationalize this shift—turning AI into real-world security outcomes. Let’s go! Scybers x Google Cloud Partners
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Chandika Jayasundara liked thisChandika Jayasundara liked thisYou’re not stuck because you’re doing too little. You’re stuck because nothing is clearly connected. The shift isn’t working more it’s making things visible. Map it once. Move faster after. #Productivity #Clarity #VisualThinking #Creately #WorkSmarter
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Chandika Jayasundara liked thisChandika Jayasundara liked thisI fed 6+ minutes of hitting footage into my Claude-built app and asked for one thing: "Find me a 30+ shot rally." - parsed a 6:09 session to extract the rally - clipped the desired video perfectly - generated a live shot count - rendered a slow-motion replay at the end - calculated the stat card on the fly Burning calories while I burn tokens! 💪🏽 #codingwithclaude
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Chandika Jayasundara liked thisChandika Jayasundara liked thisScreenApp hit $2M USD ARR this month! I want to talk about what that number doesn't tell you. It doesn't tell you it took 5 months to reach $1K MRR. Or that we almost ran out of money watching competitors announce fundraises. Or that the total capital ever invested in this company is a literally rounding error in our competitors legal fees. Granola raised $67M. Another Australian competitor raised $12M. Both are building great products with talented teams. But sometimes I sit with the numbers and genuinely wonder. Some have raised 500x more capital than us. Another started two years before us in the same Antler cohort program. Both have larger teams, bigger offices, more resources. And yet here we are with comparable or higher revenue on a fraction of the input. So the question isn't "who's winning." The question is: what exactly is all that capital doing? I follow this framework: skin in the game. When the money you're spending is yours, you ask different questions. Not "how do we grow faster?" but "what happens if this doesn't work?" Not "what's our burn rate?" but "can we survive 12 months of zero growth?" Those aren't better questions. They're just different. And they lead to a different kind of company. Ours looks like this: two founders, 90%+ margins, 76% ownership. SEO fills the funnel. Product closes it. Cash flow funds everything else. $2M USD MRR and climbing. The 'scale mode' VC-funded version of this company would have 40 employees, a board, quarterly targets, massive burn, and maybe the same revenue. Maybe more. But definitely less margin and definitely less control. I genuinely don't know which path is "right." But I know which one lets me sleep at night. And I know which one survives if the market turns tomorrow. Maybe thats enough in 2026.
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Chandika Jayasundara liked thisChandika Jayasundara liked thisMapping generative UI to a real theme engine. I’ve been working on making my AI screen builder more than just a "one-off" generator. The goal is to produce React code that actually respects a design system's logic. I’ve integrated the full theme engine directly into the prompt bar. Instead of just picking a single color, it uses color theory algorithms (like triadic or analogous harmonies) to calculate a full palette of primary, secondary, and tertiary scales. These values map to over 100 semantic CSS variables—handling everything from surface tints to feedback states—and apply them instantly to the preview. This allows for deep customization of border radii, typography, and "surface bleed" without the UI ever feeling disconnected or broken. Rather than just giving you a mess of divs, the builder walks the underlying JSON layout tree and converts it into a self-contained React component. Every element the AI generates is mapped directly to a real component from my PixelPlay UI library. When we copy the code, we're getting functional JSX with resolved props that are ready to be dropped straight into a project. It’s been a challenge balancing the flexibility of natural language prompts with the strictness of a production-ready component library, but the bridge between the two is finally starting to hold. #ReactJS #UXEngineering #DesignSystems #BuildInPublic #FrontEnd
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