The Patch Paradox
AI coding agents make building cheap, but the same forces make attacking cheap too. Every patch that removes a known vulnerability also grows the system, and a bigger system means more surface for the next round of scanning.
An indie software studio · Keralam, India
Where happy accidents become beautiful software.
/serˌənˈdipədē/ — n. the art of finding what you weren’t looking for. We ship small, opinionated products — made slowly enough to care, quickly enough to matter.
№ 01Manifesto
Six convictions
— written down so we notice when we drift.
Good software is good art.
The best tools carry a point of view. They make choices, say no to things, and let you feel the presence of a mind behind them.
Ship fast, iterate faster.
Perfect is the enemy of shipped. Quality is impossible in isolation — it needs contact with reality, early and often.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Every feature is furniture in a room. A few well-chosen pieces make it livable; keep adding and soon you can’t walk through it.
Independence over infinite scale.
We choose autonomy over unicorn dreams. Within what a small team can build, we compete on taste, speed, and conviction.
Profit is freedom.
Revenue is not a dirty word. It’s what keeps the lights on, the studio independent, and the work honest.
Small teams, big impact.
The gap between what a tiny, motivated group can ship today versus ten years ago is enormous. We lean into it.
№ 02The shelf
Things we’ve made
— 7 things on the web.
#ProductWhat it doesWhere
№ 03Field notes
Writing things down
— how one founder figures out what he actually believes.
The hard part of building with agents isn't the code
What a few days of building with agents taught me. Writing the code is not the bottleneck anymore. The bottleneck is keeping the work attached to the right problem, and making sure nothing slips between "I fixed it" and "this actually shipped".
Vibe coding is just another layer of abstraction
Where I land on the vibe coding debate. It is a real force multiplier, and it is also just another abstraction layer. Which means the old skill of digging down a layer when things break still matters.
Six things I believe about making software
An attempt at writing down the principles that guide how I build software at Serendipity Labs. Not prescriptions — just honest markers of where my head is at right now.
4 essays so far · more brewing ☕
№ 04Team
