OriginalMrPink

>> Taste is something harder: the ability to hold your own criteria steady while facing an infinite number of options.

Couldn’t agree more. Great write-up!

Over 4k web developers participated in the survey. Tons of interesting insights regarding AI / IDE / model usage.

impressive...can't wait for OpenAI to make their image gen faster tough

Apple feels stuck. Only incremental improvements, no real innovation, no risk... Also, some improvements turned out to be real bad.

Really considering switching from iPhone this year. Been using iPhones since 3G.

Just curious, what problem do I need to have that they'll solve for me?

Who wants fluent conversations with AI to get help for realtime translations or location based information (e.g. when traveling)? Who wants to delegate tasks to AI so it can help work with everyday productivity tools like calendar, emails, etc.

I understand that some of the stuff is not there yet. But dismissing an emerging technology as useless baby stuff? Reminds me of what people were saying of web, web 2.0, etc. My productivity has taken giant leaps since two years, probably because I'm willing to regularly invest some time into understanding & exploring which workflows can be optimised. It might actually not be trivial, and even some AI companies are not able to showcase their tech in realistic problem solving scenarios. But it's there.

Apple is just really really bad at this atm. Their leadership has transformed the company into a mindset of mirco-optimisations, no more taking risks etc.

It was Cursor six months ago, VC with Copilot three months ago, and currently it's Windsurf / Cursor. Copilot is lagging with features, it used to be Chat & Compose, now it's Agents and MCP stuff that's missing. But once it's in there, it just seems more robust and better integrated with everything imo.

It actually is. The trick is to be in charge of architecture and scope. But this is not a 100% AI build like stated in the article.

That's today. What about tomorrow?

It would have been great if they had disclosed which products. I've been building tons of projects with AI lately, and while this is a massive productivity boost, the code itself doesn't scale. The acceleration when you start with zero is massive, but with a growing code base, AI hits a wall at some point. You better understand what you've built going from there.

Truth to be told, it often seems that even companies that have an AI roadmap don't know what they're doing...

Yes, please. But you know, these days, everyone is doing their own research, and think they nailed it. But it's often sloppy research, unfunded arguments, etc.

Just looking at the map in this article, and whatever source this comes from (some people don't seem to bother sharing sources) - it seems not accurate. (e.g. why is Greenland a different color than Denmark...)

I was wondering the same thing on an API level. How to build / write and document an API so that it can be easily digested and applied by LLMs.

Open Source AI is the path forward, but I have hard time believing that Meta should be affiliated with it.

"Why We Raised A Bunch Of Money" doesn't answer any of the questions above. I've seen private equity rounds disguised as traditional founding rounds, which is neither very transparent, nor very honest. Raising 70M just shortly after a 25M round makes me feel like there was more at play then just 'raising' money tbh. But I might be totally off here - but therefore disclosing a bit more than you currently do might be really helpful.

Really? What are you going to tell them after they signed? "You bought it, suckers!"

You might have found your audience. But for me the tonality of the post felt way off.

I'm not doubting this at all. But let me be more specific what I don't like about their communication.

"$70MM led by EQT Ventures." That's awesome, but what are you giving away for this? Are founders selling their shares? Where is the beef? $70M can be everything and nothing at the same time.

"There are customers who are comfortable engaging with tiny Fly.io, and others who are comfortable engaging with the Fly.io that raised an additional $70M led by EQT ventures." I'm pretty sure that your enterprise customers are already wowed by a 25M infusion by AtoZ. So again, where is the beef, especially after stating: "Why do startups write announcements like these? We went back and forth on it. There are lots of reasons, most of them dumb."

I can keep going with more examples. But the headlines says it all. The 70M clickbait 'we raised a bunch of money" - wow, so chill, bruv.

The headline and even the article reads like a big nothing burger.

looks like you could do this via API. Not sure though, it's not in the UI and according to the company it's on the roadmap.