Thoughts on AI, the tech stack, and the indie hacker journey.
AI stocks are getting hammered. The Dow is in correction territory. Wall Street is asking "where's the ROI?" instead of throwing money at anything with a chatbot. Here's why this is secretly great news for indie builders.
A Korean startup just demonstrated an AI chip running LLMs at under 5 watts, 20x more efficient than Nvidia's Jetson at 1/10th the cost. If you've shelved a hardware idea because the compute didn't exist, it might be time to revisit.
Nature just published a finding: the best AI agents perform at only half the level of PhD experts on complex tasks. Meanwhile SWE-bench went from 60% to 100% in a year. The gap between benchmarks and reality matters for how you use AI.
The Stanford AI Index 2026 just dropped with two numbers that should change how every solo operator thinks about hiring, competition, and the developer pipeline. 51% of GitHub code is AI-generated. Junior dev employment fell 20%.
AI capabilities are at all-time highs. AI transparency just hit all-time lows. The Foundation Model Transparency Index dropped from 58 to 40. Documented AI incidents rose to 362. If you're building on these models, the trust problem is yours now.
A new report calls AI browser extensions the most dangerous threat surface nobody's watching. If you're running 4 AI extensions, a password manager, and your entire business inside one Chrome profile — you should read this.
Apple just shipped a free business platform with MDM, custom-domain email, and zero-touch deployment. If you're a one-person shop in the Apple ecosystem, this might kill your $84/year Google Workspace bill. Or it might not. Let's do the math.
Nous Research built an open-source agent that gets smarter the more you use it. For solo operators running the same tasks every week, persistent memory might matter more than another benchmark point.
Microsoft just released a production-ready multi-agent orchestration framework with A2A, MCP, and support for every major model provider. It's impressive engineering. It's also almost certainly not what you need.