Notes
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.