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Max Ischenko

Спочатку ДОУ, тепер Djinni. Keep going & підтримуй ЗСУ.

Andreas 🔥
1/ Side projects now compete with smaller SaaS, Tinkerers club
2/ Companies are buying domain knowledge + workflows (decisions made for you)
3/ Pick a vertical, go deep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgLJ5xas2ow

As a solo engineer working on projects, I'm already finding that I am the bottleneck when it comes to the right ideas. Coding Agents in Feb 2026

People are confused about how to keep up with the pace they themselves created. The Final Bottleneck

"even a commodity category, like web hosting or CRM can create a breakthrough product -- if you can do it 3-5x better/cheaper/faster" Jason Cohen

Books, as I understand, are like children; if you made them, you are not allowed to say you aren’t proud of them. charity.wtf

When people ask “Will AI take my job?”, they remind me of a Sioux tribesman in 1840 wondering if the white settlers would take his buffalo. The answer is “Yes, but you’re really asking the wrong question”. Noah Smith

The feature backlog has gone poof

Agents have improved dramatically in a year

To get better at writing, you need to write. The same goes for thinking

The lump of cognition fallacy

"One agent can work on a single codebase for hours, making real progress on ambitious projects. (..) Effectively using agents can be much more important than just throwing tokens at a problem" https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/

Going Founder Mode On Cancer - by Elliot Hershberg

“When you stop reading garbage, you create space to read something meaningful, or useful, or enjoyable.”

“It takes very little to govern good people. And bad people cant be governed at all.” Cormac McCarthy No Country For Old Men.

The most important teams in a B2B software company are engineering and sales Stay SaaSy

Steve Yegge promotes crypto spam Ugh.

Two Years After Cormac McCarthy’s Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth 🔥🔥

What makes strong engineers strong?

How good engineers write bad code at big companies

"it is now clear that for most projects, writing the code yourself is no longer sensible" Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

"When AI can generate (almost) anything, value is shifting to operations" AI is a business model stress test

The #1 predictor of a company succeeding is whether the quality of hires trends upwards over multiple years. Merely flat is already not great. Hire quality trending down is almost apocalyptically bad. Stay SaaSy

"the big models are more like Twitter than they are like jet engines, & this whole thing was a surprise anyway — from which no one has quite recovered " AGI is here

“the length of tasks AI can do is doubling every 7 months” (for now) The Year in LLMs

"trust from leadership, shipping as your (somebody's) top priority, anticipate possible problems, communicate with clarity and context, having a fallback plan, 'can we ship this second' mindset" How I ship projects at big tech companies

Mutually Assured Mediocrity

“Revenue and profitability are your North Star metrics” Stay SaaSy

The bottleneck in your company is not having enough really really good people. If you want to win, get more really really good people. If you think you have really really good people but you’re not winning, I have bad news for you. Stay SaaSy

"Once software becomes non-trivial, progress is governed far more by other factors – such as understanding, decision-making, coordination and feedback – than by the rate at which code can be produced." Coding has never been the bottleneck

When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?

Dan Wang 2025 letter

"The year when AI stopped being satellite, experimental tech and started being the mainstream, foundational technology. At least in the world of developer tools." 2025 was for AI what 2010 was for cloud

Writing is the hobby. Authoring is the profession. The only way I can stay in the writing zone and out of the authoring zone is to remind myself that nobody will ever read what I’m writing. Art, Money, and AI

If you want to be a leader, you have to act like one. Stay SaaSy

2025

Everything takes longer than you think

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