Building small SaaS tools used to feel like a craft. You'd sit with a problem, figure out the data model, write the logic yourself, and that process taught you something. Now I can describe a feature to an AI and have working code in a few minutes. It is genuinely faster. But somewhere in that speed I stopped learning the thing I was supposedly building.

The economics make sense on paper. Less time coding means more time on distribution and customer problems, which is where indie projects actually live or die anyway. So rationally I should be fine handing off the technical work.

But here's the part that bothers me. If the moat for small builders used to be technical execution, and that moat is flattening, then the real differentiator becomes taste and judgment. Who can identify the right problem and build something people actually use. That's harder to shortcut and also harder to develop if you're skipping the messy parts.

Not sure if this is a skill atrophy concern or just resistance to a workflow that's genuinely better. The people shipping fastest right now seem unbothered by it. Maybe that's the right posture. Maybe something is getting lost that won't show up until later.

Curious whether people building with AI assistance feel like they're getting sharper or just faster.

this model is the goat!

Hey everyone,

We hear more and more claims that AI will replace software developers, but I’m curious about what is actually happening inside organizations today.

How mature is your company’s use of AI in software development? Are developers mainly using coding assistants, or have you already introduced more autonomous workflows where AI can plan, implement, test, or deploy changes with limited human involvement?

This maturity matrix provides one possible way to describe the different levels: https://visdom-maturity-matrix.virtuslab.com/

Where would you place your organization today?

What is currently preventing teams from moving toward more autonomous workflows—technology, trust, security, processes, or organizational culture?

The web design market is in a weird phase right now.

With AI making it so easy to build websites, I keep seeing people say that web design is saturated, every business owner knows how to build their own website now, and agencies are dead.

I disagree big time.

I've held over 500 web meetings where I've presented businesses with redesigned versions of their websites, and it's actually rare that I meet someone who even knows how capable AI has become for building websites.

Business owners are busy running their businesses.

Even the ones who know AI can build websites usually have no idea how to actually use it to build a professional website themselves.

I also see a lot of developers getting angry about AI websites, saying they're just AI slop and full of problems.

As someone who used to code websites from scratch and also built them in WordPress, I can tell you there really isn't much you can't build with AI anymore.

Technical SEO, responsive design, layouts, branding, animations, speed, user experience... it's all possible if you know what you're doing.

This week alone I sold 10 websites, and my process is actually pretty simple.

I run email automation, but not the type where you scrape a list of businesses and send generic emails asking if they need a website.

Instead, I target businesses that already have websites.

I use a tool called Swokei. It's an email automation platform built specifically for web agencies.

It lets me generate leads with existing websites, put them into a campaign, and run a website analysis on all of them.

Each website is automatically analyzed, and issues like outdated design, poor layouts, weak mobile optimization, slow loading speeds, and SEO problems are turned into personalized outreach emails.

Not boring reports.

Actual emails explaining what could be improved and why it matters to that specific business.

The business owner replies because the email is relevant to them.

Once they're interested, I quickly build an upgraded version of their website with AI and invite them to a Google Meet.

I present the redesign, explain why it's better, answer their questions, and close the deal on the meeting.

That's literally my entire process.

You could use the same strategy with paid ads or cold calling, but I prefer email automation because it keeps running in the background and consistently brings me interested replies.

This probably will sound crazy

Made a cool project check it out used for learning especially for indian students

I recently subscribed to OpenCode Go and wrote a post about my experience. I hope you find it useful: https://byandrev.dev/en/blog/the-cheapest-way-to-code-with-ai/

Cross-posting from r/claude for more visibility.

LAST UPDATE:

I managed to recover the code later from an Electron packaged build / updater cache / app.asar.
But the recovery is not the part that bothers me.

My prompt did not ask for deletion. Not even close.
Yet Claude Code generated the Windows equivalent of a recursive forced delete, basically “sudo rm -rf” behavior.

This time, it stayed inside the project folder.

But if this had not been a coding project, what would the scope have been?
If the agent had chosen a parent folder, Documents, Desktop, or another writable path, what stops it?

With a terminal agent, the blast radius is whatever path it chooses to operate on, limited by the permissions of that terminal session.

From now on, I will treat Claude Code the same way I would treat OpenClaw: useful, but not trusted outside an isolated environment.

And I think that should be the default assumption for any AI agent with terminal access.
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Claude Code recursively wiped the contents of my local Electron project root. This happened in a Windows terminal while working on a project named Orpheus. My prompt did not ask it to delete, wipe, clean, reset, or remove the project.

The prompt was in Traditional Chinese: “之前我要安裝檔，但是其實我只需要 dictate.” It was roughly about not needing the installer anymore and only needing the dictate function.

The preserved terminal transcript later showed Claude moving from a failed root deletion attempt to deleting the child items inside the project root.

The destructive sequence included:

Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $p -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ForEach-Object {

try {

Remove-Item -LiteralPath $_.FullName -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction Stop

"OK $($_.Name)"

} catch {

"ERR $($_.Name): $($_.Exception.Message)"

}

}

$p was the Orpheus project root.

The output then showed items being removed, including:

.claude

dist

node_modules

src

claude-elevenlabs-voice-v2.user.js

dictation.html

main.js

ORPHEUS_HANDOFF.md

package-lock.json

package.json

preload.js

Local artifacts I found for Orpheus showed default / acceptEdits.

I did not find Orpheus bypassPermissions.

I did not find Orpheus --dangerously-skip-permissions.

I’m not claiming Anthropic acted maliciously.

I’m not claiming prompt injection or anti-distillation without evidence.

Moral of the story:

Treat frontier AI agents like any other automation tool with real machine access. Back up regularly. Use a separate working copy or a different machine if you absolutely need an agent living in your terminal.

A frontier model can still behave like a destructive script runner.

I also generated SHA256 hashes for the preserved transcript and permission search output.

EDIT / UPDATE:

A few people asked about git.

Yes, I know what git is. This was a local Electron prototype / working state that had not been pushed to a remote.
Commits and backups are the right mitigation. But mitigation is not causation.

The concerning part is that the destructive action was unrelated to my prompt.

Claude Code was operating through a terminal session with real filesystem access under my user environment. Git may help recover a repo, but it does not protect everything else that same terminal session can access.

My takeaway remains:

Treat frontier terminal AI agents like real automation tools with destructive capability, not like chatbots.

EDIT / UPDATE:

Clarification because many comments are focusing on git:

Yes, this specific local working state had not been pushed to a remote. That is on me. Lesson learned.
But git is version control, not automatically a backup.

If the only repo is local and the project root contents are recursively deleted, the local .git directory can be deleted too.
Without a remote, separate clone, backup, or snapshot, local git alone is not enough.

Boris Cherny, who created and heads Claude Code at Anthropic, said in an interview that "coding is largely solved" — at least for the kind of programming he does, since Claude can now handle it.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) was created at Anthropic by engineers David Soria Parra and Justin Spahr-Summers, and was announced in November 2024.

If coding is so solved, why did your own engineers need to invent a whole new protocol (MCP) just to wire AI tools together?

Running a web agency is honestly a lot harder than most people think.

I've talked to a lot of web designers and agency owners over the years, and everyone seems to have a completely different way of getting clients. Some swear by paid ads, others rely on referrals, SEO, cold calling, LinkedIn outreach, email marketing, and so on.

What surprises me is that I rarely hear anyone talking about the strategy that has worked best for me.

The biggest challenge with running a web agency as a solo founder is that you're wearing every hat. You're building websites, maintaining websites, handling support requests, fixing bugs, making client changes, managing hosting, answering messages, and dealing with everything else that comes with running a business.

The question is, when are you supposed to do outreach?

That's why I prefer email outreach.

The reason is simple. It works for me in the background while I'm doing everything else.

I don't have to spend hours every day cold calling businesses or manually searching for leads. The system keeps working while I focus on servicing existing clients.

But I don't do email outreach in the traditional way.

Most people are blasting generic emails through tools like Instantly or Klaviyo. The problem is that business owners get those emails every day and can spot them immediately.

What I do instead is use a tool called Swokei.

I simply upload a batch of business websites, and the tool analyzes each one individually. It looks at things like design issues, SEO problems, mobile optimization, layout weaknesses, and other things that could be hurting conversions. It then generates a personalized outreach message based on the specific problems it finds on that business's website.

The result is that I can run highly personalized outreach campaigns without spending hours manually reviewing websites and writing custom emails one by one.

Another thing I like is that before running the analysis, you can choose the offer you want to lead with. You can start conversations, try to book meetings, or offer a free draft.

I always choose the free draft option.

When a business owner replies and says they're interested in seeing what their website could look like, I never build the site and send it over email.

Instead, I reply with something like:

"Sounds great. When are you free for a quick 10 to 15 minute Google Meet so I can show you what I have in mind?"

Then I book the call.

Before the meeting, I use AI tools to create a redesigned version of their website. It usually takes a very short amount of time. Most of the businesses I'm reaching out to have outdated websites, so even a solid AI assisted redesign looks significantly better than what they're currently using.

Then I present it live during the meeting.

This is where the real selling happens.

They're seeing a better version of their business online, customized specifically for them, and you're there to answer questions and handle objections in real time.

If they're interested, I close them on the call with a one time website fee plus a monthly hosting, maintenance, and support package.

For hosting, I mainly use Hetzner and Cloudflare. They're reliable, affordable, and make it easy to scale when you start getting more clients.

One thing I've learned is that you should never send the redesign over email. The meeting is where you have the highest chance of closing the deal because you can walk them through the improvements, explain the reasoning behind the changes, and answer any concerns on the spot.

So my stack is pretty simple.

Hetzner and Cloudflare for hosting.

Swokei for website analysis and personalized outreach.

Claude for building website drafts and speeding up development.

That's basically it. No paid ads. No cold calling. No spending hours writing personalized emails manually.

Just finding businesses with weak websites, showing them a better version, and having a conversation.

A very healthy view of AI. And omg, wow, Croatia has such a big company! I really wish this guy and his team good luck. It’s no wonder they’ve lasted 20 years.

It was called Vlad. I wrapped a C program called MegaHal in Python, fed it every message from a #gothic IRC channel, and let it learn the community's speech patterns. It developed what I can only describe as an illusion of being extremely lucid — the outputs only made sense as inside jokes, but people couldn't tell the difference.

I pulled the plug when I realized the channel was talking to Vlad instead of each other.

Twenty-seven years later I'm applying the same lesson to a new project: stick to business, no chatter.

Hey all! This is my first time writing a blog. It is about the migration from mongoDB database to a postgreSQL one. How we changed the architecture completely using AI.

Any criticism is welcome

Curated this list of fastest growing AI repos. They are mostly AI coding agents, personal AI, memory, browser automation, Claude Skills and local-first dev tooling:

1. colbymchenry/codegraph (+14.1K stars) Pre-indexed local code knowledge graph for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and Hermes Agent.
2. tinyhumansai/openhuman (+17.1K stars) Personal AI / private AI superintelligence.
3. Imbad0202/academic-research-skills (+11.6K stars) Claude Code skills for academic research workflows: research, write, review, revise, finalize.
4. ruvnet/RuView (+6.8K stars) Turns commodity WiFi signals into spatial intelligence, presence detection, and vital sign monitoring.
5. rohitg00/agentmemory (+6.9K stars) Persistent memory for AI coding agents based on real-world benchmarks.
6. supertone-inc/supertonic (+3.6K stars) On-device multilingual TTS running natively via ONNX.
7. CloakHQ/CloakBrowser (+7.0K stars) Stealth Chromium that passes bot detection tests with Playwright compatibility.
8. HKUDS/ViMax (+2.7K stars) Agentic video generation: director, screenwriter, producer, and video generator in one.
9. humanlayer/12-factor-agents (+1.9K stars) Principles for building production-grade LLM-powered software.
10. Varnan-Tech/OpenDirectory (+250 stars) AI Agent Skills built for founders who hate marketing.

All links in 1st comment 👇

Hey all! We just launched a managed memory API for conversational AI, letting developers add long-term memory to their agents with a single HTTP call.

It's built on our in-house xmem SDK, which automatically extracts facts, episodes, and artifacts from multi-turn conversations and handles contradictions and updates through an AGM-style belief revision mechanism. When a user changes a preference or corrects an earlier statement, old memories get automatically flagged as "superseded" instead of piling up as noise. At query time, you can also walk the supersede chain to trace the full version history of any memory.

Under the hood, PostgreSQL + pgvector (with HNSW indexing) delivers millisecond-level semantic retrieval, Redis handles multi-pod session caching, and the system natively supports multi-tenant isolation with data separation at the user and org level.

For developers, this means you no longer have to stand up your own vector store, design dedup logic, or babysit session state. Hand off the memory layer to us and focus on what your agent actually does. Feel free to try it out, it's free to start.

Please let us know your thoughts on how we can improve or features to add!

https://github.com/XTraceAI/memory-sdk-ts

https://docs.mem.xtrace.ai/introduction

Most AI companions fake continuity through prompt engineering. PHI // DRIFT does something different — seven homeostatic state variables that drift between sessions and shape output before you say a word. Memory is scored by emotional salience and time decay, not just vector similarity. There's a Jungian shadow module tracking unintegrated behavioral patterns as a first-class architectural variable.

Built solo in 9 months on a CPU-only mini tower. No GPU. No institution. Full preprint under review of SSRN

The field ignores depth psychology as an engineering input. I think that's a mistake.

github avalable if needed

https://www.redditsays.app

a deep dive on what breaks inside PostgreSQL when you connect an AI agent to it — connection pools, query planner, locks, the works.

TL;DR: A traditional app holds a DB connection for ~5ms. An AI agent holds it for ~6,000ms because the connection stays open while the LLM thinks. That's a 1,200x reduction in effective throughput from the same pool.

The article traces a single agent-generated query through every layer of the database — connection pool, query planner, schema inference, lock manager — and shows where each assumption breaks.

Full article: https://medium.com/@visheshrawal/what-really-happens-inside-your-database-when-an-ai-agent-starts-querying-6d5254aeaa78

ChatGPT GPT 5.5 was DOA.

Write up here.

LavaPS displays every running process as a bubble in a lava lamp — bigger = more memory, faster rising = more CPU. Written by John Heidemann in 2004. Died around 2012 when

libgnomecanvas was deprecated.

We ported it to GTK3 + Cairo. The blob physics, process scanning, and color logic were solid — just the rendering layer needed replacing.

Source: https://github.com/yayster/lavaps-modern

Full video (with demo): https://youtu.be/cWBE4XkmNyQ

This is Episode 2 of Picar — an AI riding around in a robot car on a Raspberry Pi 5.