In response to a question: Anthony: Given how tokens work (and become COGS), expect more outcome based pricing in SaaS companies. Though, even the AI labs have fixed-price subscriptions for some of their products.
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AI Tooling Will Boost Software Reliability for Small Teams
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Me: I actually expect that software reliablity goes up rather than down over the next 2-3 years as the tooling for this gets just radically better and weirder than anything we've had before. Small teams are going to get BigCo levels of reliability. Not perfect but Really Good.
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Operational Excellence as Moat in AI-Written Code Era
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Anthony: "Operational excellence" is a defensible moat. As more code is AI written, quality inevitably goes down. Most people using one-off apps are going to get burned, repeatedly, and they will try to offload that to someone whose only job is This Can't Blow Up.
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Vibecoding Clashes With Team Collaboration in Software Development
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Anthony: Software which has collaboration within a single user (e.g. multiplayer mode in a company) is intrinsically resistant to "vibecoding" one's own solution on one's own desk. Me: Everyone loves vibecoding; nobody likes taking a meeting to synchronize vibecoders.
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AI Transforming Software Teams: Economics and Org Design
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with @staysaasy
, our second anonymous pod ever: https://
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… A conversation with the Stay Sassy duo on how AI is changing software teams, management, internal tooling, and the economics of building. Includes sharp takes on token budgets, org design, and review -
AI Will Crater the Cost of SaaS Feature Development
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Anthony: We once considered feature development to be a core part of running a SaaS business. Required both some amount of taste and relatively large time/money due to engineers. Cost of features will *crater.*
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Team investigating latency regression to improve speed
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we are working to make it faster, there was a latency regression last week, team is looking into it
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SaaS Founders Strategies for Thriving in the LLM AI Era
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Next up at MicroConf: @aeden of DNSimple (I use them for DNS and love them) on how SaaS founders can thrive in the LLM age of AI-generated apps.
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AutoCDC: Declarative Approach Replaces Complex Hand-Coded Data Logic
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CDC and SCD pipelines get complex fast as data scales. Hand-coded MERGE logic grows hard to reason about, maintain, and keep correct over time. AutoCDC replaces that approach with a declarative model. Teams define the desired behavior, and the platform handles ordering,
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Google disables accounts using CLI in headless mode
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Careful, I seen reports of Google disabling accounts when their cli is used in headless mode.