Journal
Notes on business, software and people
- ThoughtsMay 25, 20262 min
Vercel made a language. Not for you.
Zero is a Pre-1 experiment from Vercel Labs. Agents are the primary users, not humans.
- ThoughtsMay 23, 20266 min
What AI doesn't ask
AI writes good code. Projects fail in the places it never asked about. Four of them.
- ThoughtsMay 20, 20265 min
Calendly is gone. We vibe-coded a replacement in one evening.
Point four from the SaaS post, dissected: the booking page on this site. Date picker, Google Calendar availability, Meet links, confirmation emails. And what 'vibe coding' actually looked like.
- ThoughtsMay 19, 20265 min
Cancelling small SaaS. Here's what replaced them.
A cookie banner, a chat widget, a scheduler, analytics. Each was a vendor dependency. Each is now a file in my repo.
- ThoughtsMay 13, 20267 min
AWS is hiring 11,000 juniors. Anthropic says they won't be needed. Here's who's right.
The AWS CEO calls replacing juniors with AI one of the dumbest ideas he's heard. Anthropic says programmers are finished. Who's right depends on what you're counting.
- ThoughtsMay 9, 20262 min
Stop paying for software you could build in an evening
Cancelling subscriptions one by one. Not out of cheapness. Building it yourself is faster, simpler, and actually fits the problem.
- ExperienceMay 8, 20262 min
Working with the Finns
One Finnish stint in my career rewired how I think about remote work entirely.