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A world where people use Claude to operate doomed SaaS products

Folks who eat meat but wring their hands about animal testing: I accept your illogical downvotes!

Are you vegan?

That’s just a harness with a hat on it

I’m self employed, which means there is less than zero chance I could rely on self-hosted AI. $200/mo for virtually unlimited use, or $10k for a machine that will be less capable and slower?

There are so many cool harnesses I could use if I didn't have an outrageously subsidized Claude subscription

Are you browsing the web without an ad blocker?

We should be more courageous in adding `p{max-width: 36em;}` to our stylesheets.

BI is just the word Excel users give to charts they can't make in Excel

God, some people really can’t get over the fact that the site is run by a Nazi /s

The best evidence is just how comically bad their ad targeting is vs Meta

I don’t think it’s conspiratorial to question how strong the firewall was between your Gmail content and Google’s algorithms. Whether or not they actually leveraged that understanding for targeted ads is somewhat beside the point.

Can you say more? Why would the inference engine be the secret sauce that would protect trillion-dollar valuations? Isn't the inference side somewhat of a known-quantity, while the training is more of the lab's trade secret?

AI is good at code but bad at writing. So what makes you think that its skill with code would generalize to product decisions?

Put it on OpenRouter… I don't really want to sign up for the first-party API

The Postmodern Condition is a good one, and it's short. There are still some useful lenses from that era of critical theory, but the discourse has of course moved on over the past 45 years!

The narratives described in the article are metanarratives in the critical theory sense. Lyotard defined postmodernism as “incredulity towards metanarratives.” So welcome to 1979!

Investors literally can’t stop talking about “pattern recognition,” because it’s comforting to think that the past can predict the future if you’re clever enough. But the best investors are pattern breakers, not matchers.

Crickets

It’s not about the price of Apple products falling—I was commenting that the price of inference will continue to fall (chips getting faster). If “good enough” inference is in your pocket, this benefits Apple and harms Nvidia.

Don't get me wrong; in the long term I see the price of local inference falling as their chips continue to get 15-20% faster every year, and meanwhile the "intelligence per billion parameter" chart is rising. There will be a magic point where they cross, and "good enough" reaches your phone. That's when Apple starts to drink Nvidia's milkshake.

Yes, I'm very glad they're doing this, but as of 2026, it's a bit academic. Pricing for the 512GB Mac Studio hasn't even been announced yet, but the 256GB version starts at $9499. So when you start talking about four of those puppies, it's substantial.

Someone else will do the math on how many years it would take to spend $40k on Muse Spark Open via OpenRouter.

I think they may eventually be able to buy the US TSMC facilities and assets.

If we go down this path, we need to stop founders from saying they built their company.

People benchmark it from time to time [0]. It makes sense though—Apple has poured resources into making the Safari engine battery efficient on their phones, and the macOS version is a beneficiary.

[0]: https://tech-insider.org/safari-vs-chrome-2026/

These -craft projects are quite young. Now that they've attracted a bigger community, I would expect the UI, UX and "accuracy" (for lack of a better word) to catch up quickly.

Commercial apps made entirely by humans also have bugs and rough edges, especially at 1.0. Are we holding agentic development to an impossible standard?

Can you give me a concrete example? I close windows and tabs with ruthless abandon.

Unless you have a web app which is entirely local and doesn't save its state to local storage, what could you possibly be doing that requires a tab to remain in residence?

Safari is faster, uses less RAM and is more power-efficient. But people love leaving 2000 tabs open, and I guess Chrome's UX is better for that. I don't think people realize that you can go back to a website after you've visited. It's not strictly necessary to leave the tab open for the rest of your life.

Nearly every browser on the market and most desktop application are just Chrome in a ski mask. Safari and Firefox are the tiny holdouts that prevent web technology from being 100% controlled by Google.

This is a bit of a chicken and egg, but the number of iOS users who have saved a web app or PWA to their home screen is probably in the single-digits worldwide. Half-joking.

People are just not aware that this is a thing, and when they learn it's a thing, they don't want to do it.

Have you downloaded and used any of the apps?

If you reject any software that used AI in its development as slop, I have bad news about the rest of your life.