Deepak Jonnalagadda

Software engineer building web and mobile apps with AI agents. Sharing what works and what flops.

[Deepak Jonnalagadda @hey_supermax]

Hey, I'm Deepak. Software engineer in India, building web apps by day and after hours I build my own products with AI. I constantly keep writing it all up: what works, what flops, and what I learn trying to build stuff. Follow along.

[Deepak Jonnalagadda @hey_supermax]

I wrote a plain-English guide on what to do when AI wrote most of your app and you can't read the code when it breaks. Four small habits and a pre-ship checklist you can copy. https://t.co/LspZsthy3U

[Deepak Jonnalagadda @hey_supermax]

Austin is one of the few tracks where Turn 1 is a steep uphill climb right after the start. Braking while going uphill into a hairpin with 20 cars side by side is why the order can change before anyone reaches the top.

[Deepak Jonnalagadda @hey_supermax]

A side project rarely stalls because the code is bad. It stalls because version one keeps getting bigger.

Pick the one thing it has to do, ship that, and let the rest wait until people ask for it.

[Deepak Jonnalagadda @hey_supermax]

Read the whole error message before you paste it into AI.

Half the time the file name and line number already tell you where to look, and you fix it faster than the AI could reply.

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@Rainmaker1973 Ice making these sounds while it forms is one of the strangest noises in nature. It sounds more like a sci-fi movie than a lake.

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@WilliamsRacing @krakenfx Fan zone sessions are the closest most people get to a driver all weekend. Nice way to kick off Austin.

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@arvidkahl Cheap tests have the same problem as cheap code. If nobody reads them, a passing test written by the same agent that wrote the code doesn't prove much.

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@HaStrive Copying the same skill into three folders is how two of them end up out of date without anyone noticing. One source of truth beats three copies.

[Deepak Jonnalagadda @hey_supermax]

@kylegawley Most indie pricing gets set by what the founder would pay, not by what the problem is worth to the customer.

[Deepak Jonnalagadda @hey_supermax]

Give your agent a clear "done" check before it starts.

If it can't tell when the task is finished, it either stops too early or keeps going and breaks something else.

A test that has to pass, a page that has to load, a file that has to exist. Small thing, big difference.

[Deepak Jonnalagadda @hey_supermax]

@konstructivizm A galaxy that slowly stops making new stars is such a quiet way to fade out. 320 million light-years away and still this clear.

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@HaasF1Team @Godzilla_Toho Godzilla suits in Austin was not on my race week bingo card, but it works.

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@kevinkern And you end up with a site you can actually change yourself, instead of a stack of plugins nobody wants to touch.

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@Replit @stripe @atlas Going from building the app to setting up the company in the same chat is a big jump. The paperwork is usually the step people put off the longest.

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@DhravyaShah Forgetting on purpose is the part most memory setups skip. Keep everything forever and old facts start fighting with new ones.

[Deepak Jonnalagadda @hey_supermax]

A good test before asking AI to fix a bug: can you explain the bug in two sentences?
If you can't, the AI is going to guess. And so are you.

[Deepak Jonnalagadda @hey_supermax]

@swSalim Thanks Yuyu, appreciate it!

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@AstroPythagoras Makes sense, a bright phone screen does wreck your night vision. Paper and a red light sounds like the more fun way to do it anyway.

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@GiraffeEmo @InternetH0F Same. The line is basically part of the experience at this point.

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@orcatron007 Retries are the sneaky one. Everything looks fine until the same event shows up twice.

[Deepak Jonnalagadda @hey_supermax]

Building an app with AI is the easy part now. Getting it ready for someone to pay for is where most apps get stuck. I wrote down the 5 things almost every vibe-coded app is missing, in plain English. https://t.co/dqGoPGlMz8