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Jamu Kakar

Jamu Kakar

@jkakar.bsky.social

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Cofounder of Blaide. Audio chisel. Slow clapper. Foot stomper.

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Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Aug 28

It’s another case with agents where it’s kind of neat, but not immediately practical. My use case is a personalized onboarding flow for an app, and I don’t think anyone wants to wait 30-40s between questions and do that five or seven times before they can start trying the app.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Aug 28

I had to force the agent to use the tools I built to evaluate answers and generate questions, because otherwise I couldn’t get it to use them purely with my prompts. It worked a couple times, but it was flaky.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Aug 28

I built an interview agent yesterday. You give it an initial question, a list of things you want to know, and a maximum number of question/answer rounds. It works but is painfully slow with gpt-5 with 30-40s waits between questions. gpt-4.1-mini is faster with 5-8s waits but the quality is poor.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Aug 27

I can imagine a travel site interviewing a user about a trip they want to book, for example, and then an agent built and operated by that site uses internal APIs to prepare options they can review and book. That seems much more plausible than a generic travel planning agent working in the wild.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Aug 27

I assume companies are going to want to maintain control, as we see with APIs today, to minimize fraud if nothing else. It’s hard to imagine a future of agents working autonomously, so I wonder if the tech will end up being used behind the scenes more than something exposes to users.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Aug 27

I imagine a future where this works will need online stores and other sites (travel sites, for example) to expose MCP-like facilities for agents. I assume they’ll need agents to be registered. Getting API access to a lot of sites today is either nonexistent or a painful and slow process.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Aug 27

When I did have success it was because I chose a smaller site without bot protections, and then oriented the agent workflow around that site’s specific behaviours. Making a generic agent that can work with any site seems like it’d be quite an undertaking.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Aug 27

Bigger sites I tried had bot protections that kicked in pretty quickly and broke the agent. Many sites require login before anything can be added to a cart. Pop ups and other surprises can confuse and break the agent’s progress. Even if it succeeds there’s no good way to get a user to a cart.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Aug 27

I spent a couple days cooking up an AI agent to drive a browser to try to add ingredients to an online grocery store shopping cart. I got it to work, but it’s fragile and takes 15-20 minutes to add 6 items to a cart, and costs about $1.25 in tokens. The hype is much more impressive than the reality.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Aug 23

You’re absolutely right!

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Aug 21

Yeah, that’s a good point. It’s seen as a way to offload thinking and understanding vs being a tool to incorporate into those activities.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s fascinating to me that people hear about coding with AI and then think that it eliminates the need for the things we’ve collectively learned are needed to make software work (design, testing, refactoring, data modelling, contracts, etc.). The widespread magical thinking is wild to see.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Jul 22

I've been building Cookwith which is an app to generate recipes and meal plans tailored to users dietary needs and preferences (eg, protein goals, allergy considerations, etc.). I used this tofu marinade recipe for a party I threw yesterday and everyone loved it! cookwith.co/recipe/4fdab...

Cookwith - Greek-Inspired Tofu Marinade with Fresh Rosemary

This Greek-Inspired Tofu Marinade is a celebration of Mediterranean flavors that transforms tofu into a savory, zesty main. With the switch to fresh rosema...

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Jul 19

I’m digging OK Aurora’s new single “In Bloom”: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Jul 4

I am groot!

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Jun 20

A couple months ago we went to the Studio Ghibli museum in Tokyo and it was sooooo cool. If you get an opportunity to be in that part of the world I recommend checking it out.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Jun 18

Yeah, same. Multitasking is neither healthy nor productive.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Jun 18

How do we square the fact that, “the mind can only do one thing at a time”, with a world of AI tools and expectations that an individual’s (or a team’s) output is going to be dramatically increased. I struggle to see how this won’t exacerbate burnout for all but the best meditators.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Jun 8

Strong agree! I’d love to see all cars banned with the exception of people with mobility issues, deliveries, and maintenance workers. I bet you could do that and change half the roads to pedestrian only spaces, which would improve the experience.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · Jun 4

Building wallets used to be really hard. This article by @snoble.bsky.social demonstrating how Fragment makes it easy is really cool: www.linkedin.com/pulse/pairpr...

Pair‑Programming a Wallet on Fragment

How an LLM used Fragment to delete code I thought I had to write Me: "I want to build a wallet for my app. Can you help?" LLM: "Great, let's build a wallet! …But first—what *is* a wallet?" Me: "It's t...

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Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · May 7

Waiting for the AI is the new "My code's compiling."

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · May 3

If I ever open an AirBnB it’s going to have the best toothpaste.

A tube of Mutti tomato paste held in the palm of someone’s hand.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · May 2

Yeah, I’ve observed that more than once, and I’ve always been grateful for it and find it inspiring.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · May 2

Yeah. I was told that there was one other higher priority case than this one, but it still took awhile. The 911 attendant was apologetic about it. The paramedics were also great. I’m always impressed by people with these kinds of jobs. The level of professionalism is always remarkable.

Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · May 2

Yeah, they were conscious. There was a language barrier, and they couldn’t say much for awhile, but their breathing was okay the whole time, and they didn’t break out into a sweat or anything. I’m going to check on them tomorrow and see if they’re okay.