Thoughts on AI, the tech stack, and the indie hacker journey.
The YC Request for Startups now lists 'AI-powered agencies' as a category. The thesis is that one operator plus ten agents builds a software-margin business inside a service wrapper. If you're already running a solo service operation, this is the memo to read.
Claude's million-token context at standard pricing quietly killed half the RAG plumbing I was about to build. Here's what I deleted, what I kept, and where chunking still wins.
Live content collections, a unified runtime, and an experimental Rust compiler. I run this blog on Astro — here's what I'm upgrading and what I'm leaving alone.
Microsoft turned Copilot into an autonomous task agent — assign it a bug, it spins up a workspace and proposes a fix. That's the exact pitch Cursor and Windsurf have been selling for 18 months. Here's the honest read on the IDE wars.
AI killed the speed advantage. The new moat is design — which is awkward, because most of us got into this because we hated design. Here's a non-designer's checklist for shipping something that looks like it cost money.
Two years ago AI was a rounding error in my budget. Now it's the line item that buys me everything else's lunch. The actual numbers, the cuts, and the rule I use to decide what stays.
The distribution-not-product line is repeated until it loses meaning. The playbook behind it is real, the numbers are public, and I'm violating most of it on this blog. Here's the honest accounting.
Adam Selipsky is running a fresh $10B AI infrastructure company funded by KKR. It's not built for indie devs, but it changes the floor on what hosted inference costs in 2027 in a way that does affect us.
Apple picked Google's Gemini to power the next Siri. Every blog will frame it as Apple losing the AI race. The contrarian read for indie Apple-ecosystem devs is that this is good news, and here's the App Intents homework you should do this week.