Consumer banking is still living in the 80s. You should be able to access the entire history of a single transaction in your account. The machines it routed through, the services that handled each part of the transaction, the fees at each step.
We need something like decentralized auth for agents. Drop your agents and content sources into an auth group and everyone starts talking. Having to auth every agent + content source with each other is a spiderweb of permissions hell.
I'm convinced they make the ux of electronic voting machines terrible on purpose
Site monitoring and optimization is critical for commercial web apps right now. If Meta takes interest in your app, you can see massive usage spikes for sustained periods. Any small inefficiency will amplify and balloon your cost.
A recap of #atmosphereconf 2026 as well as an overview of why I'm spending my very limited free time in my life betting on ATProto (and why I think you should, too!)
This isn't just for developers. This is for everyone.
brittanyellich.com/atproto/
Mark Hunter (Christian Slater), Pump Up the Volume. Still relevant today.
"You ever get the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked up? You know that feeling that the whole country is like, one inch away from saying, "That's it! Forget it!". I mean, think about it. Everything's polluted. The environment, the government, the schools, you name it."
The built in tools for AI agents run simple curl and web search queries. They don't create a sandbox browser environment and execute client side javascript
Disable JavaScript and reload your site. Blank page? That’s what AI agents see.
If your data isn't in the initial HTML, it might as well not exist. SSR and structured content are the new baseline for being found.
Huge performance improvements on Next 16.2.
• Up to ~60% faster rendering
• Up to ~400% faster 𝚗𝚎𝚡𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚟 startup
nextjs.org/blog/next-16-2
We likely need a new API protocol for the future of AI. Why distribute an MCP when you can expose the correct type of endpoint instead.
We use a LOT of AI and Agents at Vercel and the @notion.com built in agent is still one of my most used.
sugarless peanut butter cups are just circles of sadness
Meetings should cost $5. Recurring meetings double.
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
If you see your job as pure coding, the future looks rough. You need to start thinking of your role as creating value. Whether you write code or AI does, the goal was always to create a product. Being a "human compiler" used to be a viable career path. Those days are moving rapidly away from us.
This is a fascinating read and I'm certain this will impact the open source community, but it's tough to see just exactly how this is going to play out
Switched to a low profile keyboard and feels like I forgot how to type. Double check all my PRs this week.
AI Agents we need: Makes phone appointments for you with providers that are living in the past
I'm not really finding this to be the case. Using Opus with Copilot has significantly better IDE integration and DX for VSCode users.
Follow it up with Season 4, Episode 6, for the Stargate version.
Love the honesty here. I was in the same place 2yrs ago. My sister is a professional trainer for amateur and semi pro athletes with a private gym 2 miles away... and I somehow still avoided getting back into shape. My mantra was "its ok to fail, just don't quit".
AI tooling is in a rapid expansion phase... more new tools/methods/approaches every day then we can possibly keep up with. Eventually, we will have a collapse phase, where we have eliminated most of the worst ideas/options and gather around some solid solutions.
I know Opus 4.5 is the hot model right now, but I'm finding Haiku 4.5 to be my daily driver unless I need something really complex.
Had an idea for ATProto. Read the docs. I somehow know even less about ATProto now.
