Thoughts on AI, the tech stack, and the indie hacker journey.
Ramp's spending data shows AI adoption reaching 50.6% of US businesses in April. For solo operators selling AI integration, that number is a TAM warning, not a tailwind: the businesses that were easy to sell already bought something.
At Build, Microsoft unveiled MAI-Thinking-1 and six other in-house models, trained without OpenAI data, to cut reliance on the partner it has poured billions into. If the company with the deepest OpenAI relationship is de-risking its model layer, your one hard-wired API has no excuse.
On June 2, OpenAI previewed Codex Sites — describe an internal app in a prompt, and Codex builds, tests, deploys, and hands back a hosted URL. For solo devs and tiny agencies whose bread and butter is the internal dashboard, the floor of that market just moved.
Researchers showed that anyone with your public Sentry key can plant a command inside an error event. When you ask your coding agent to fix it, the agent runs the attacker's code — with your keys, on your machine. The defense isn't a better prompt.
Attackers adopted 400+ orphaned AUR packages and rewrote their build scripts to drop a Rust credential stealer with an optional eBPF rootkit. A lot of solo devs run an Arch derivative. If that's you, you have a Saturday job.
Your feed is full of hockey-stick revenue charts. The median bootstrapper takes a year or more to reach $10K MRR. If you budget your runway off the screenshots, you'll quit three months before the part that actually works.
At I/O, Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash and a Managed Agents API where a single call gives you an agent that reasons, calls tools, and runs code in Google's own sandbox. Cheap and convenient — and it moves the part you most want to own onto someone else's machine.
GitHub confirmed npm v12 ships in July with lifecycle scripts off by default. It's the right call for supply-chain security, and it will silently break native builds in stacks that depend on postinstall. Here's what to check before you upgrade.
The Assistants API sunsets August 26, 2026, and the migration path is the Responses API. The good news: the new model is genuinely simpler. The bad news: 'genuinely simpler' still means rewriting the part of your app you least want to touch.