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at the coffee shop and the people next to me are explaining how they can build startups without engineers any more 🙏

Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 29/09/2026

Knowing Cloudflare encourages their engineers to write blog posts assisted with AI is enough for me to skip reading any of them

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 29/09/2026

pro-tip for agent sessions that you want to sit on and come back to later just ask the agent to comment the claude resumable command on the PR

Resume the Claude Code session this work came from (run from the repo root):

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 29/09/2026

I’ll never use their product. Waste of their time, could be better spent making a great product.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 29/09/2026

Cold emailing people AI-gen spam in response to their Bluesky posts with a complete advertisement is a horrible growth hack and terrible practice. Not to mention a complete waste of both of our time.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 28/09/2026

though it's not its intention, this stripe guide proves the value of react server components but I guess it would take some time to "understand" all of the pieces look at how the next.js version is broken out into discrete, composable, and well organized pieces docs.stripe.com/checkout/emb...

docs.stripe.com

Embed a checkout page in your site

Learn how to integrate Stripe Checkout with a full, working code sample that lets your customers pay through an embedded form on your website. The example includes client and server-side code, and an ...

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 28/09/2026

stripe sandboxes have controllable clocks to test subscription phases my AI agents are time traveling to validate their code what is happening

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 27/09/2026

never in doubt, thank you phillies 👑

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 27/09/2026

Trey just played on stage w Julian Lage (& Jorge Roeder) manifesting a decade long dream all too short, but incredible. gonna need the duo show in nyc

trey anastasio playing with julian lage and his band

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 26/09/2026

rebooting your dedicated servers feels a lot like cracking your knuckles

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 26/09/2026

you think AI is getting better but then it writes this crap

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 26/09/2026

yeah the cut is tough, I often come back to the sbd here for that reason

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 26/09/2026

one of the best shows I've ever seen. an hour of full improv. the band was two duos who had just each met each other for the first time. no conversation, they just showed up and played. the whole room let out a collective breath when it finished. absolute tops. timber.relisten.net/chris-forsyt...

timber.relisten.net

2019_09_20 Forsyth Harrington Jewell Zahn Nublu.mp3 | 2019-09-20 | Chris Forsyth | Relisten

Nublu New York

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 25/09/2026

blog title: big discrete claim blog body: why thats not actually a tautology

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 25/09/2026

"the maintenance years" ouch.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 25/09/2026

"go through all of my commits for the last 11 years and walk through the architectural decisions I made, the ones I got correct and the ones I got wrong – and how my style of coding changed throughout that time. the good and bad."

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 25/09/2026

we're all theoretical physicists physicists, in theory

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 25/09/2026

maybe it's a fast follow to timber

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 25/09/2026

I built the best hosted log streaming and querying platform, but didn't quite get the last 5% ready to ship it's unfortunate as it really does beat anything else on the market

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 25/09/2026

before you launch something you're a complete perfectionist but ten years and thousands of customers later, you inherently have to accept a lot of imperfection in your product it's inevitable

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 24/09/2026

A new u2 album means only 1 thing New ep of u talkin u2 to me

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 24/09/2026

we all just need to be billionaires with assistants and then we dont need to know our own zip codes

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 24/09/2026

ignoring the fact that I've never had ram replaced on a server. you've raised it close to $50/mo in less than a year? c'mon new servers, fine. existing servers? foh

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 24/09/2026

I don't really understand why ovh is raising the prices on my existing servers "because of increasing ram prices" this is the second time in a year, on a long standing server my ram already exists on the server, it's paid for. is it because of the replacement cost? there's no way it's commensurate

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 24/09/2026

I could have sworn it took 3 months. I guess not? Looks like I launched in ~6 weeks. "happy times"

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 24/09/2026

A little surprised by this, as I believe it took me three months to build the initial version. Maybe I migrated repos before launching.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 24/09/2026

I built the whole platform before I registered the domain. I came up with the name roughly a week earlier (if I remember correctly). Pour one out for the graveyard of domains I never developed.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 24/09/2026

the .site tld became publicly available to register on July 15, 2015 popflash.site was registered that day and launched on July 16th, 2015 that likely makes it the first 'original' business launched on a dot site tld – and we're still kickin eleven years later

popflash.site

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 24/09/2026

AI has gotten too good at writing code. way too good.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 24/09/2026

this is great, nice work

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

human in the loop doesn't mean you have to watch it at every step - it just means you complete one unit of work and are working with it rather than asking AI to come back with dozens of PRs to review

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

this is why human-in-the-loop wins

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

a business, a product, your full-time job? keep yourself in the loop, don't let your brain and skills atrophy. and take advantage of your best asset: your taste. when you remove yourself from the loop, you are excising yourself from the process. which is the highest leverage (and most fun) spot.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

I think taking a maximalist approach with agentic coding, trying to squeeze yourself out of the process as much as possible is flawed. a side-project or fun tool, no problem. especially something internal and private? ship fast and have fun.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

for some, this is a worthy trade-off. for a craftsperson, this is borderline stupefying. i've found sticking to a human-in-the-loop while working with agents offers the opportunity to participate in this process. and keep the quality bar high, both in the product and architecturally.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

the one thing AI agents struggle with, taste – or perhaps, voice. is the very thing that makes your work great. if you remove yourself from the process you are actually depriving yourself of the opportunity to do great work. you are sacrificing quality in the name of cognitive offloading.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

and then, after one or two weeks going through the work, you realize you need to pause, either rethink a module or the whole project? for me – it's every time. every single time. because the meat of the work, the QUALITY – the nuance – exists in the process of doing the work.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

let me ask this: how many times have you come up with a complex plan or feature, and really thought hard before writing a single line of code. you designed an implementation plan, data structures, architectural design, and so forth. you broke it out into a plan made up of several discrete tasks

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

and so if you could truly know exactly what you wanted to refactor, and how, and communicate that to an AI and come back to find it done exactly to your expectations – then okay. that's less cognitive offloading and more effort offloading. but, unless very small and targeted, that's nigh impossible

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

the hard part of writing code was never the tactile "writing" – it was the thinking, the organizing, the mental modeling, the QA'ing, the problem solving, the product solving.

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

because what that all comes down to is a desire to perform cognitive offloading. to hand both the decision making and the work to the agent. some suggest that the AI isn't making so many decisions, it is handling the laborious writing, debugging, & esoteric knowledge seeking (like apis and syntax).

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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026

no. for me personally, no. and though he was not only referring to an individual engineer, but rather the perspective of a "company" looking to solve problems and reduce labor. i also believe that's short-sighted.

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