The Human Web Is Becoming Agent Web
I'm joining Steel as founding growth lead. The web is shifting from human clicks to agent-run workflows. Steel aims to be the execution layer that makes agents reliable via traces + trust.
40% of Signups This Week Came From AI Recommendations
Checked onboarding responses. Exactly 40% of new users in the last seven days found steel.dev through AI tools. Not Google. Not ads. Users told us this during signup.
Making CLIs Agent-Friendly with Loops and Schemas
A CLI for my web automation agent, built through structured loops: a todo-backed backlog, schema validation, and a verification harness running 50 random web actions per cycle. Agent reliability isn't philosophy—it's loops and logs.
Meat Moat: Why Cheap Code Doesn't Kill Defensibility
AI makes shipping software cheaper, but it does not make institutions move faster or decisions easier to verify. Durable moats come from licenses, liability coverage, operational maturity, human-anchored verification, and social coordination around systems of record.
The Instantiation Era
AI one-shotted a fix for a failed Mistral.ai clone. The build phase collapsed from weeks to seconds.
When AI makes work and content near-free and outperforms us in IQ and creativity, the scarce edge for our kids will be judgement about what matters, the ability to verify and synthesize truth from noise, and the empathy and communication that earn trust and coordinate humans.
Joined Steel.dev, Semester Break, AI Model Experiments, Fishing Again, Agent Cheat Code
Out of Weights
AI-native tools win, but there's a chasm: new tech isn't in LLM weights yet. The bridge? Strong feedback loops, GitHub issues as task management, and LESSONS_LEARNED.md.
The Disequilibrium Advantage
AI doesn't just speed up work—it amplifies everything, including your bottlenecks. The founders who build translators, loops, and reliable curves while everyone else is gripping harder will define the next decade.
Hacker News Hug: What Serverless Really Means
On Jan 21, my 'static' Astro site on Vercel hit 595,557 Edge Requests and 38.2 GB of transfer. Here's what I learned about Cloudflare proxying, caching strategy, and why 'static' doesn't mean 'unmetered'.
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