It’s a pause-calypse. AI is shifting the value from "renting software" to "owning intelligence." SaaS isn't dying, but the era of bloated subscriptions is; tools must now prove their worth by integrating deeply into custom AI workflows. Adapt or fade. — gen1e.xyz
SaaSpocalypse or SaaS-pause-calypse?
The death of SaaS in the age of AI - e.g. people building and running their own CRM systems rather than using Salesforce - is overstated. I think we are more in a pause-calypse than an apocalypse1. The hype is overbearing. There is no end of people writing…
Today's programming facepalm: Realizing I didn't have an index on a foreign key. Everything working a lot better now :D
AI uplifts your capabilities, but also forces you to uplift yourself
This is a story based on some work I'm doing on my side project, syracuse.1145.am. It's an example about how with AI I can do much more than what I could do before and how I had to level up my thinking to make the most of it. The…
What does “AI” even mean in 2026?
Remember in the "BC" times (Before ChatGPT) when AI meant something different to what it does now? It's what we saw in science fiction films. It was something that either felt human-like or felt super-human. It was more likely to be logical than creative, but it…
UK Govt Entrepreneurs Call For Evidence is missing a critical question.
Good news: The UK govt is looking for input into its strategy for encouraging more entrepeneurship. Link here in case any of my network have not yet submitted their views: It ends on 28th Feb so please do go ahead if you…
All this AI agent stuff going on and the real AI feature I would love is an AI that can tell me where my phone is.
Why the AI disruption feels different.
Gen AI is changing everything. Gen AI is a bubble. Gen AI is coming for your job. The current AI disruption is getting more coverage than previous ones I've seen. It's because of the sorts of jobs that it is disrupting. It's affecting programmers. When social…
Looks like the lady in the middle is on her phone.
Ok I give up. I'll read the New Yorker article about if Claude is conscious, given that you lot are all quoting it.
I loved Dungeon Crawler Carl and was v tempted by Alchemised, if only for the gorgeous cover art. Would love to hear how good it is
After hours struggling with getting Microsoft Copilot to help convert some Loop pages to Loop components I gave up and asked ChatGPT. It helped me straight away.
Go figure.
TBH this isn't a "ChatGPT good, Copilot bad" post.
It's "if one AI tool isn't doing it for you, try another one" post.
foreign [Music]
Klangphonics recently turned up on my YouTube recommendations. Great musicianship, great sounds. Like the best bits of 1990's Trance. Love them. Here are some screenshots from one of their YouTube recordings with YouTube's auto-subtitles. At first, I found it entertaining how…
Nice subtle touch on this week's Private Eye cover.
Wow! Syracuse beats Perplexity!
My side project made almost a clean sweep of the AI analysis of the latest head-to-head between Syracuse, LinkUp and Perplexity. Grok, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini all favoured Syracuse. CoPilot preferred LinkUp. Feeling quite proud because middle of last year there…
Watching my kids get obsessed by the likes of Timberborn or Alchemy Factory or those Roblox Tycoon games and wondering about the appeal.
Then I remember how much Civ and Civ II took over my life in the 90's.
Everything that happens has already happened and all that.
nuclear take
a new quality of "good code" is
components are straightforward to modify or enhance without side effects via LLM
The AI's loved my side project.
But were they just telling me what I wanted to hear?
I asked someone else to do the same comparison. His AI's gave him some different results.
Small Large Language Models, Claude and Typesense
Some notes from putting together this little demo around Typesense. Claude did most of the heavy lifting, I only had to fix the following: it used typesense 26, not 29 Claude used a GET which didn't allow for a long enough query so I had to change…
About a million years ago I made 2 PR's to an open source library. One was to update an error in the docs. One was to fix a bug. Guess which one languished around forever and which one got dealt with?
Docs won't get updated unless the updates are happening in the flow.
The Next Nik?
Lot's of talk about Nik Storonsky of Revolut leaving the UK for tax-friendlier climes. But what about people like: Sophie Tharnton Priya Nakamura Gabriel Hortley Dmitri Castellanos What about them? What about the people in the UK working on something today that will turn into as much…
In Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is the definitive text on counting underground floors, when you go down the stairs from ground level you are on the 1st level (below ground).
By analogy, the 1st floor above ground level must be the first floor up the stairs.
I rest my case.
thanks to claude code i might actually ship the thing i wanted to make back in 2021 but didn't have the patience for. incredible time for people with vision and skill but low execution velocity
the best productivity system ever:
1. open a blank note/page
2. list all tasks for today
3. mark 3-5 most important with a star
4. complete those tasks
5. repeat steps 3 and 4 until you're tired
stop wasting time overthinking your "perfect" system
You read this stuff and wonder how people can be so dewy-eyed about "the good old days"
"Real Brexit hasn't been tried yet"
Might not be consistent but it is sane.
AI by the kilo
One of my least favourite jobs is answering this RFP question: "How are you using AI in your product?" I understand the intent behind the question. As a buyer of software, you want some confidence that your vendor is up to speed on the latest technology. You want some confidence…
I did jury service 3 times
Lucky me. Jury service is high up the UK agenda thanks to I'm just a normal punter who has been on a jury three times, so I definitely don't have the big picture, but I have a view and this is my blog so I'm going to share it 😀 Things I thought were good: On each…
