Koti Karna

Product Manager! Ex-Visa & Amazon
Thinking in public about platforms, enterprise AI, and what actually ships.

[Koti Karna @karnakr]

Everyone's building agent platforms. i think most teams should extend the IDP they already have. wrote up why, plus a 7-point checklist and when i'd do it differently https://t.co/bkyx6XWz5o

[Koti Karna @karnakr]

Building got cheap, so the scarce part moved: finding a real problem and earning trust. It just left the codebase. https://t.co/snQHP4x3NE

[@levelsio @levelsio]

It's never been this easy to build software

And never this hard to make money with it

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@svpino If anyone can clone your product in a weekend, the edge moves to owning the customer relationship.

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@omarsar0 Most teams stall at step zero: nobody owns writing the test cases. Feels more like a PM job than eng.

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@GergelyOrosz The moat for internal agents is access, not the model. So the hard problem is permissions, not prompts.

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@bchesky @borrowed_ideas A cloud VM clicking through sites is what you ship when the OS won't give the agent a real seat!

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@asymmetricmind Inbox access is capability, not approval. 'Always allow' on login codes is a standing API key with extra steps.

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@signulll Access is step one. The harder barrier is trust: letting the model act, not just answer. Most enterprise products stall there, not at access.

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@omarsar0 76% to 92% from better artifacts, not a bigger model. Agent success is often packaging, not intelligence.

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@AdamJWenborn Cool…. Would love to see both on one dashboard!

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@jasonlk the not-forgive list is usually honesty failures, not uptime. customers survive outages. they don't survive being told everything is fine while it isn't. what's #1 on your list?

[Koti Karna @karnakr]

@hanilworks minimal version: one identity for the script + a human approval gate before anything irreversible. skip the full IDP until a second person needs the same path

[Koti Karna @karnakr]

Everyone's building agent platforms. i think most teams should extend the IDP they already have. wrote up why, plus a 7-point checklist and when i'd do it differently https://t.co/bkyx6XWz5o

[Koti Karna @karnakr]

@Rajesh7113 Per finished task only works if both sides agree what 'finished' means and who eats compute when the task fails. Who gets to write that definition in your deals — vendor, customer, or a third-party audit?

[Koti Karna @karnakr]

Perplexity put always-on work agents behind a $200/month Max plan.

That price invites a coworker comparison: what finished work do you get, and how much of it needs rewriting?

I wouldn't start with price per seat or per task. I'd start with price per accepted outcome.

What's the first number you'd want before renewing?

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@jasonlk Agree on 1. On 2: do they usually unlock a new market, or mostly compress the same roadmap into half the time?

[Koti Karna @karnakr]

Mark my words: @Google will eventually kill @antigravity as a standalone product. The current feature push feels like one last attempt to make it stick.

My bet: the useful pieces end up inside @GeminiApp. The Antigravity name disappears.

[Koti Karna @karnakr]

@a16z testing a target by vibe coding it is a sharp moat check. how often does that kill a deal vs just changing the price or the integration thesis?

[Koti Karna @karnakr]

Everyone's building agent platforms. i think most teams should extend the IDP they already have. wrote up why, plus a 7-point checklist and when i'd do it differently https://t.co/bkyx6XWz5o

[Koti Karna @karnakr]

@zhao_spenc The key distinction is user permission vs task authority. An agent shouldn't inherit every Slack capability just because the user has it. A read-only, task-scoped grant that expires with the job reduces both ambiguity and blast radius.

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@Lockhead If people quietly resent it, it isn't a golden path; it's a toll booth. The path has to make the right route easier, not merely block the alternatives. That matters even more for agents: give them a governed route that removes work.