deepfriedbits

Love your point about how AI tools are boosting fun side projects and how it reminds of early creator internet. Spot on.

Not only that, but they can make life inconvenient for your family. Nobody reasonable would accuse the CCP of outright violence, but there are a million bureaucracy-related tricks the state can pull to leverage you and/or your family.

The value is in the answers.

I agree 100%. At the same time, I feel like this piece, and our comments on it are snapshots in time because of the rate of advancement in the industry. These coding models are already significantly better than they were even nine months ago.

I can't help but read complaints about the capabilities of AI – and I'm certainly not accusing you of complaining about AI, just a general thought – and think "Yet" to myself every time.

Correct.

In the spirit of r/IllegallySmolCats, perhaps SmolDocs is a possible option.

It has a massive user base. And political connections. And lawsuit money. Apple (and Google) will absolutely treat these publishers differently than a random app developer.

Same. There's a lot out there to get us down, but most people are fundamentally good at the end of the day, regardless of culture or borders.

I agree. It's really cool. I wonder if this was written with AI assistance. Seems like the perfect kind of fun project that a dev team would really be able to crank out pretty quickly whereas five years ago, there might not have been time or budget for something like this.

Kind of an IRL heatmap.

Sindre makes high quality apps. Big fan of what he's put out.

You don't think there's cost/labor savings in making agents and workflows easier to use? I don't think your average back office employee is going to be setting up OpenClaw.

I'm perpetually cautious about wild tech claims myself, but if you watch the launch video, there are examples of how they could claim labor/cost savings.

For example, one task takes a document with data, charts, and metrics, and Perplexity Computer was tasked with creating a 10-page slide deck for a presentation. Prior to AI, that took human capital and labor costs.

I can't say whether the $1.6M in labor costs is legit or not, but these tools are not just clicking links in 2026.

"There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen."

Could they have even trained the models 25 years ago? Wikipedia was nothing close to what it is today and I know folks here like to mourn the fall of the open web, but it's still orders of magnitude larger today than it was in 2001. YouTube, so many information stores that simply didn't exist then.

I'm not sure if the price rose later, but I remember getting Dark Sky for a $3.99 one-time payment. Much more palatable than $25/year imo.

I can't speak to the typos, but launching first for MacOS not something new for OpenAI. They did the same with their dedicated desktop client.

Same. And indeed, it's here. The genie is not going back into the bottle, so we have to learn how to live in this new world.

Eric Schmidt has spoken a lot recently about how it's one of the biggest advances in human history and it's hard to disagree with him, even if some aspects make me anxious.

I appreciate your honest testimonial. It's so rare these days to read a sentence like, "No credit to me at all" haha

Appreciate everyone adding links to their suggestions!

Kind of a key point in that – the whole purchasing stolen information thing.

Yeah that was either a tactical misstep, or a smart move if they fabricated the date or the fact that they put in in their two weeks.

Same. Whether an Aeron or another high quality chair, it's hard to not find value in something we use for huge chunks of our days.

What an embarrassing era for America.

Correct. The article is about Chrome and MS Edge browser extensions.

Not sure if this is what PG had in mind, but yes, the famous "do things that don't scale at first" advice to startups

I'm continually amazed at how grown adults haven't come to the realization that different people enjoy different things.

That's a fun domain name.

Loved the movie (and the book). The movie is highly entertaining for a business movie.

All the best