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.
Meat Moat: Why Cheap Code Doesn't Kill Defensibility
AI makes shipping software cheaper, but it does not make institutions move faster. Durable moats now come from licenses, liability coverage, operational maturity, 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'.
My agents are now CPU-bound, so I had to find them a new home and got myself i9 14c/20t very cheap sff machine. Next level: electricity-bound.
X's Grok-Powered Algorithm: The January 2026 Rewrite
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