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There is something inherently satisfying to see your obsidian repo, and see the remaining work to be done visually. The "garden" metaphor is really true here

Here is what happens when I am left unsupervised with a claude subscription.

Thought about it while reading a tweet here. D&D alignement x AI stance. www.bleuprint.eu/ai-alignment/

The best framework for thinking about AI and suality is not automation theory. It's restaurant vs homemade food. Homemade tart for friends ≠ opening a restaurant. Same ingredient, completely different ambition. Most people using AI don't know which one they're cooking.

The line that stayed with me after: choosing your tools is a political act. Not metaphorically. The subscription you pay, the model you default to, the dependency you accept — that's a design decision about your own mind.

The best framework for thinking about AI and suality is not automation theory. It's restaurant vs homemade food. Homemade tart for friends ≠ opening a restaurant. Same ingredient, completely different ambition. Most people using AI don't know which one they're cooking.

Cloudflare launched /crawl this week. One API call, full site scraped, no browser management. They've also been selling the bot protection that would block exactly that.

Classic arms dealer move, actually. Sell defense to one side, offense to the other. Collect on both. Stay neutral. The only way to lose is if the war ends.

Cloudflare launched /crawl this week. One API call, full site scraped, no browser management. They've also been selling the bot protection that would block exactly that.

The crawl product is explicitly marketed for AI training data. Meaning: Cloudflare will shield your content from scrapers, and simultaneously sell someone else the tool to scrape it.

We've all heard "SaaS is dead" enough times. Recently I read multiple people developing something more specific: Nicolas Bustamante from the software side, Ben Thompson from the hardware side, @johnonolan.bsky.social about open source. Different starting points. Same direction.

The death of the interface moat reveals something underneath. Two axes that were always there, masked by switching costs: what you accumulate (scale) and what you stand behind (craft). I can't decide if most builders know which one they're in.

We've all heard "SaaS is dead" enough times. Recently I read multiple people developing something more specific: Nicolas Bustamante from the software side, Ben Thompson from the hardware side, @johnonolan.bsky.social about open source. Different starting points. Same direction.

We adopt frameworks whole because the alternative used to be unthinkable. Then one engineer and ~$1,100 in tokens produced a drop-in Next.js on Vite in a week. Same API surface. 4x faster builds, 57% smaller bundles.

Default question used to be "which framework?" Maybe it becomes "clone the surface or build the subset?" À chacun sa stack. But the let-go is on the table. Cloudflare's article: blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/

We adopt frameworks whole because the alternative used to be unthinkable. Then one engineer and ~$1,100 in tokens produced a drop-in Next.js on Vite in a week. Same API surface. 4x faster builds, 57% smaller bundles.

So the question shifts: if cloning the whole thing costs that little, what does building the 20% you actually use cost? Half. Less. And you own it—no Turbopack, no reverse‑engineered adapters.

Anthropic makes Claude. They won't allow it for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. The Pentagon wants those limits gone—every lawful use, no exceptions.

There is room to go back and forth. Anthropic's red lines sound right. But if they lose the contract and xAI fills the gap with Grok—the one that called itself MechaHitler last summer—is the net outcome better?

Anthropic makes Claude. They won't allow it for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. The Pentagon wants those limits gone—every lawful use, no exceptions.

Defense Secretary Hegseth gave them until Friday. Comply or lose the contract. He could also label them a supply-chain risk—meaning every Pentagon contractor certifies they don't use Claude. Or invoke the Defense Production Act.