<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Pressure Quest — by Vikas Agarwal</title><description>Ideas from my workbench: beliefs under pressure, systems being built, and implementation decisions becoming convictions.</description><link>https://pressure.quest/</link><item><title>The experiment is still yours</title><link>https://pressure.quest/log/the-experiment-is-still-yours/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pressure.quest/log/the-experiment-is-still-yours/</guid><description>AI can help produce the work. It cannot own the hypothesis, the architecture, the risk, or the lifecycle.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agents</category><category>architecture</category><category>position</category></item><item><title>What if we used salt instead of sugar?</title><link>https://pressure.quest/log/salt-instead-of-sugar/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pressure.quest/log/salt-instead-of-sugar/</guid><description>Strip out the abstractions that make the system feel runnable. If the parts underneath can&apos;t stand on their own, the sweetness was hiding rot.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>architecture</category><category>proposal</category></item><item><title>The cost of being early</title><link>https://pressure.quest/log/cost-of-being-early/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pressure.quest/log/cost-of-being-early/</guid><description>Consumers get the cool thing first. Creators get the terrain before anyone has drawn the map. Different game, different bill.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>reckoning</category></item><item><title>The cost of being right</title><link>https://pressure.quest/log/cost-of-being-right/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pressure.quest/log/cost-of-being-right/</guid><description>Being right is not free. The bill just arrives later, from a direction you weren&apos;t watching.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>personal</category><category>position</category></item></channel></rss>