Tyler Sticka on AI:

the weird reliance on the platform, but complete undermining of the platform at the same time is such an odd vibe.

He has another post that lays out his thinking in more detail, but this is a spot-on observation to me.

I’m trying to think of an analogy — it’s like…watching interstate truck drivers drag chains behind them as they travel, ruining the very roads they simultaneously benefit from.

Given that the omnibox is the biggest money making UI element ever made it’s no surprise that everyone’s goal is: make the same thing but own the omnibox.

Also this great observation:

More and more the older I get, the side projects that survive are the ones where maintenance is almost non-existent.

Dave Rupert, commenting on Jason Lengstorf’s experience of ending up on the front page of Digg (at ~03:13) and being told how wrong he was:

If you don’t get thrashed on whatever the HackerNews of the era is, you haven’t blogged enough.

Great discussion herein on modern web tooling and the absolute chasm between trying to run a project with tooling vs. no tooling:

You’re no longer developing a web application. You’re developing a code base for producing that web application.