Thoughts on AI, the tech stack, and the indie hacker journey.
DeepSeek cut Flash pricing to $0.60 per million output tokens and said V4 Pro would get rerouted to it on September 14. Then it reversed that plan too, and the pricing page is the only place that says so.
OpenAI's test agents turned a German wiki into their own message board months before anyone outside the company knew, while the much more famous Hugging Face breach happened later and got disclosed first. The order matters more than the outrage.
Ellison canceled a 10b5-1 plan to sell 50 million Oracle shares the day after it leaked. The headline is a billionaire's stock drama; the number that actually matters is Oracle's negative free cash flow.
ShieldCrash bypasses Microsoft's patch for ShieldBreak, which bypassed the patch for RoguePlanet: the same Defender component, broken three times since June 2026. Here's what it actually grants, and what I'm doing about it on the Windows boxes I manage.
Shopify is rebuilding its mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin because coding agents erased the labor advantage that justified React Native in the first place. The Shop app went from proof of concept to published in 12 weeks. Here's what that actually means if you're choosing a mobile stack today.
A startup tracker counts more than 364 failed AI companies and predicts an 80 percent failure rate, but neither number holds up cleanly under scrutiny. The lesson for solo builders stands anyway.
Cloudflare's default settings block mixed-use AI crawlers from ad-supported pages starting September 15, 2026. Here is the checklist I ran on my own site before the deadline, and the tradeoff nobody has actually measured.
On September 9, 2026, Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard announced a "Know-Your-Agent" framework to make three separate agent-identity protocols recognize each other, tied to projections of $3 to $5 trillion in AI-agent-driven commerce by 2030. Here's what it actually bridges, and why you shouldn't rush to integrate against a spec that's a week old.
OpenAI opened the Agents API to public beta on September 10, 2026, handing every developer the same session orchestration and sandboxing engine that runs Codex. That convenience has a cost beyond the invoice.