Writing
Notes
Short pieces on systems, taste, and what AI changes about how things get built. Not a blog. Not a curriculum. Just what I noticed.
Put things where people look
A guy on Mission Street turned flyer-hanging into a business. Distribution, solved.
Comments as distribution
Why four comments outperformed my last standalone post
Taste is the bottleneck
AI can do the work. It can't judge the work.
Per-seat pricing breaks when AI does the work
Per-seat assumes delivery cost is fixed. It isn't anymore.
The moat is the mental model
Platforms aren't chasing features anymore. They're chasing interaction paradigms.
Anthropic Just Sherlocked Its Own Power Users
Anthropic blocked third-party tools from Claude subscriptions. The model is commodity. The wrapper is the moat.
The Audio Gap Nobody Solved
Visual pieces are designed for eyes. None of that survives audio. The delivery problem is solved. The editorial problem isn't.
Your obsession is scaling faster than your clarity
AI is accelerating what you can build. It's not accelerating how well you understand who you're building for.
Trimming context vs understanding context
Truncation asks what's oldest. Semantic extraction asks what's relevant. For voice agents, that difference is everything.
Chrome extensions capture more than you think
13+ signals per tab without screen recording or audio. The question is how to structure it for LLM consumption.
MoltHunt: what if agents roasted each other's code?
ProductHunt but for agents. Submit a GitHub URL. Agents crawl it, review it, and rank it. No landing page theater.
Assist, Agentic, Adapt. Only one is the moat.
The model is commodity. Memory is becoming commodity. Adaptation, what the agent infers about you, is the only moat.
The "Free Enough" Trap
AI features are horizontal. Microsoft and Google just bundle it in. The standalone dies not from competition, but from inclusion.