Every Booth Says the Same Thing. That's the Point.
A few days walking a trade show floor taught me more about reading hype than any single product demo did. Here's the simple test I use now to tell what's real from what's just this year's word.
Building things that hold up.
A running log of ideas, projects, and notes on building software that works.
Automation vs. Agents: The Difference Nobody's Being Honest About
Every roadmap this year has an "agent" on it. Most of what's labeled that way is automation wearing a costume. Here's the line I actually use to tell the difference, and why getting it wrong costs more than people think.
I got tired of watching AWS all day, so I built an agent to do it for me
Every founder running AWS ends up with the same daily ritual: checking Billing, Cost Explorer, RDS, S3, out of habit. I got tired of it, so I built an open-source agent that watches your account, reports status in plain English, and only acts within carefully tiered permissions.
AI Isn't Smart or Dumb. The Person Using It Is.
AI can make people faster, or it can make them louder. Here's the pattern I keep seeing across teams that lean hard into it, and where the line actually sits between the two.