Thoughts on AI, the tech stack, and the indie hacker journey.
Qualcomm and AWS signed a multi-generation deal for custom inference silicon backed by warrants for 25 million Qualcomm shares. The mechanism matters more than the headline number, because it's how hyperscalers are buying their way off Nvidia now.
Suno v6 trains only on licensed catalogs from Warner, BMG, and Believe after settlements with those labels, while Sony, Universal, and a German court keep pressing claims against the models that made your existing tracks.
China's five-year compute plan is a massive number wrapped around a wall. Here's why it won't move what a solo operator pays to rent a GPU, and how to tell the headlines that will.
Meta launched Muse on September 8, a personal AI agent that books and buys on your behalf. The isolation architecture behind it is a better checklist for solo builders than the product itself.
Mistral closed the largest equity round in European tech history on September 8, and the pitch is EU data residency. I checked whether that pitch is worth the price on the API.
CVE-2026-21858 lets an attacker with no login at all take over a self-hosted n8n instance through its Form Webhook node. If you run n8n unattended, this is a 20-minute fix, not a re-architecture.
Jason Zigelbaum grew Zigpoll to roughly 125,000 dollars MRR alone, and the two mechanics behind it, a narrow niche and ChatGPT as a discovery channel, are testable on a much smaller product.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra shipped September 3 with a 1.05 million token context window, but it went to a vetted cybersecurity cohort before anyone else, and filling that window on a real API call runs about $20: here's the math and when it's actually worth paying.
Zigpoll's solo founder is closing in on a $1.5M run rate by himself, and every week someone posts his numbers as proof anyone can do it. The base rate says otherwise: something like 3-5% of indie hackers ever hit $10K MRR, and launch volume tripled while outcomes didn't.