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The next SaaSpocalypse category might be the victim of a 25 year old open-source framework. I predict video editing software is on shaky ground. As part of my work with 9-figure e-commerce brands I'm spending increasingly more time on high volume video editing agents. We're talking
What to build
Building is easy now. Knowing "what to build" is the AI age superpower. But how can we know that? In 7 steps. I should start playing the prediction markets. 27 months ago I wrote about "taste" as the important thing. 25 months ago I wrote about
kelp
So I "might" be starting a skincare brand… because an AI agent did something surprising - and now my wife wants to build it for real. Oh boy. Let me explain. Over the weekend I was putting the final touches on our brand new Gentic Startup MCP server.
Why Most AI Memory Feels Broken And What Better Looks Like
Markdown file-based memory is too basic for personal AI agents. A better approach is to model memory after human cognition. Here’s how I built Mio’s memory system in five layers. Most AI products say they “remember” you. In practice, a lot of them don’t. At least not
told you so?
I sent this investor update 16 months ago. Since then I've been banging this drum through my posts on here and on LinkedIn. Many people buried their heads in the sand but most came around in the past couple months thanks to what Claude Code can do. Funny
My AI roasted my health habits
And it was more useful than any health app I've ever tried. Claude 4.6 just dropped and it's genuinely great at data analysis. So I pointed it at something personal. Over the past few months I've been storing my daily weight, meals, exercise,
Skills
I wrote ideas are more important than execution in April 2024 and people fought me. There was no Claude Code then. Was I right? Follow me for stock tips. This morning I received this newsletter from Michael Karnjanaprakorn. In the olden days we had things like MVC. The model-view-controller pattern
Paperboy
There are 100+ AI research papers posted on arXiv every day. I need to keep up. So do you. So does everyone building AI products. But I can't keep up. So I don't learn. This is a serious problem for me as someone building AI products
One app category down
A personal AI with a todo skill just replaced 1000+ todo apps. Here's the pattern. Watch me build it step-by-step on YouTube There are over 1000 todo apps in the app store right now. Todoist alone has 40 million users. And yet most people still forget to do
Why Does Matthew McConaughey Want a Personal AI?
Matthew McConaughey was on Joe Rogan recently and he had a lot of thoughts on how he wants to use AI. He said he has "a little pride about not wanting to use an open-ended AI to share my information so it can be part of the worldwide AI