AI-Driven Refactors Will Revitalize Legacy Codebases
Either frontier models will just become the go-to for massive refactors like this, or we'll see companies tune specific coding models to refactor from particular languages into other particular languages. Either way, I expect many performance-related full rewrites. Of a LOT of things, big and small. Founders will do that too, with their own SaaS products. Since foundational choices such as language and framework are usually made without understanding the ultimate requirements of any product, these rewrites, if reliable and correct, will improve resource usage, performance, and ultimately the ease of being maintained and/or acquired. I have so many code bases of old products that I want to modernize, many of which are dormant but could be extremely valuable, and I know hundreds of founders who feel the same way.
Agentic Coding Dramatically Spikes GitHub Load, Hurting Reliability
Oh wow, I wasn't aware that agentic coding increased the load on GitHub THAT much. No wonder they're losing nines. This is a completely different scale.
We Overestimate AI Consciousness While Misunderstanding Its Mechanics
The “right” take in tech is to see LLMs as the pure token guessing machines they are. Outside of tech, they’re sentient magicians. Now, imagine something you’re not an expert in and how wrong you likely are about what it truly is. So,...
AI Isn’t the Issue; Mass‑tricking with Content Is
AI-generated content is not the problem. Tricking people at scale into reading/looking at/watching stuff that doesn’t matter to them is. AI just allows people to speedrun the creative side.
AI Automates Tedious Data Work, Boosts Revenue
This is the kind of AI use case that looks innocuous but is the tip of the iceberg. "Tedious, repeatable yet always unique and focus-requiring data aggregation, analysis, and presentation." If a process can be described like this, it is an AI...
SaaS Founders Battle Relentless Bot Scraping of Landing Pages
Something I hear from more and more SaaS founders is that they have to actively fight and mitigate massive bot fleets scraping their pSEO pages. Solo-founder-run businesses fighting billion-dollar companies. Cloudflare mitigates SOME stuff, but there's still a lot to handle. I'm...
Color‑coded Buttons Reveal Surprising Shopping Cart Choices
Red/blue button thingy is the new shopping cart experiment, and it is enlightening to see people's responses.
Two AZs = Double the SaaS Availability
You know what's really cool to realize, 2 years into running a SaaS? DB runs in us-east-2a App runs in us-east-2b 🤷 Twice as hyper-available, am I right? 🤣
Tool Choice Irrelevant; Intent Drives Creative Value
The whole debate of artisanal vs AI is bogus. Creativity was never in the tool. The brush was always just a brush, no matter of it was sable hair, synthetic, a Photoshop preset or a ZBrush cursor. What matters is the...
AI Images Undermine Trust; Only Real Encounters Remain Verifiable
The quality of these models means only one thing: soon, if not already, we can't trust any image to be authentic, no matter how hard we try. Ironically, only in-the-flesh real-life encounters will be subjectively verifiable. And even those won't be...
Pricing Experiments Risk Reputation when Existing Customers Notice
That's the one thing I've always found complicated about running pricing experiments on any SaaS I've been involved with. If it escapes the top of the funnel and enters a broader conversation involving existing customers, it becomes almost a reputational...
AI‑written Emails Erode Trust in Every Message
Knowing that any email I get might be researched, drafted, and sent by an AI seems to diminish the value I assign to _all_ the emails I am getting. Just realized that while browsing through my inbox just now. This likely isn’t...
The Fleeting Era Before AI Dominates Global Creativity
We're witnessing the end of a brief period in human history when technology was advanced enough for individual human creators to reach the whole world with their work, but not yet advanced enough for machines to usurp that capacity and...
OAuth's Pitfalls Push Teams Toward Password-Only Integrations
Oauth is great until it’s not. I have a strong feeling that this incident will see a few security playbooks adjusted to “user/password only for external services.”
Scale Demands Automation, but Human Review Remains Essential
When you're at a scale where you need an automated system to flag deviants, fraudsters, and other nefarious kinds of users, laws of scale dictate that your automation tooling will produce a significant number of very dangerous false positives. NEVER seen...