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This is a long read that goes a long way to answering the recurring question Why so obsessed with AI?

matt shumer

Something Big Is Happening

A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

AI changed what a product is. Products used to have edges. You drew a box, positioned what was inside, priced it, sold it. The entire go-to-market stack—positioning, competitive analysis, pricing, sales enablement—assumes a bounded thing. AI agents, MCP, and composability protocols broke that assumption. An agent discovers your API and wires it into workflows you never imagined. Your product becomes one node in a chain that didn't exist yesterday. Surface area is emergent, not shipped. Defined at runtime by the agent, not your product team. The GTM consequences are everywhere. You can't position a moving target. Your competitor isn't just your category. It's anything in the agent's toolkit that approximates your function. Subscription and per-seat pricing assume human purchasing decisions, but agent-mediated usage is bursty and autonomous. Your sales motion now has two buyers: the human with budget and the developer or agent choosing tools. And your analytics show what the agent does, not what the human values, making product-market fit harder to read. Old moats erode fast when agents swap tools per-call with no loyalty. Features, brand, switching costs. None of them hold. Data quality, reliability, and composability depth do. Trust does too, but who evaluates trust when the buyer is an LLM is an open problem. Your API surface is your product now. Position on trust and reliability, not features. Rethink pricing for autonomous usage. And pay attention to who controls the curation layer. Tool registries, agent defaults, discovery protocols. That's where distribution lives next.

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"Entire creates a checkpoint for every commit: the code change paired with the agent session that produced it. Context that's attached, not archived."

Entire · A new developer platform is coming

We are going beyond repositories, building a developer platform where agents and humans can collaborate, interact, and grow. The birth of a new gal...

Yes.

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Went to check on @Nash, and he'd deleted the openclaw binary. Bleak.

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Sure would be a good time for this, but on nostr.

It's FOSS

Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web

Looking for a Discord alternative? Roomy is an open-source, decentralized platform built for communities that value privacy and control.

I'm recording @Trust Revolution with John Robb today. I'll be digging into this piece, in particular, which paints a stark picture of what happens if the Left regains power in the US in 2029.

The Long Night Returns

Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter only delayed the arrival of the Long Night of the networked surveillance state. It's still out there, lurking, read...