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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

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  The terminal is dead; most developer tooling including shells, text editors and CLIs will be washed away by tokens and no longer used by humans.

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  The terminal is dead. Most developer tooling will be washed away by tokens. Shells, text editors, CLI tools won’t be used by humans anymore. There’s no need to know command line flags and jq invocations anymore.

  thorstenball.com

Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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  The early Web 2.0-era promise of universal API interoperability and user ownership of data and control never materialized.

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  I long for the halcyon days of early Web 2.0 when it was predicted that all APIs would work with everything and data and control would belong to the user. Oh well - that didn't happen.

  feld.com

Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.

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  emulate

  Their words

  New: emulate a GitHub App in a few lines of TypeScript Generated App keys, installation auth and stateful repository APIs Develop locally, test in CI or give sandboxed agents their own isolated GitHub environment

  x.com

Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.

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  Building a command-line interface is almost always a good idea; building a terminal UI almost never is

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  CLIs have purposes for which they’re irreplaceable. Building a CLI is almost always a good idea. Building a TUI almost never is.

  Stop Making TUIssockpuppet.org

Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Most SaaS subscriptions can now be replaced by software you vibecode for yourself.

  SaaS

  Their words

  I cancelled and then vibecoded 100% of my SaaS subscriptions I only pay for domains, server hosting and storage and AI APIs

  levels.io

Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.

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  Seven API calls to get a virtual machine was never an intention, it was a procedure — most of our APIs were designed wrong even for humans.

  the cloud

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  You have to call like seven APIs to get a VM in the cloud. Create a VM, a network, a storage device connected to a VPC and then attach credentials. Like that's not intent based. I want a VM.

  youtube.com

Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  The apps built to drive smart devices should not exist at all: the devices should expose APIs and agents should call them directly.

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  these apps that are on the app store for using these smart home devices, etc. Uh, these shouldn't even exist kind of in a certain sense. Like shouldn't it just be APIs and shouldn't agents be just using it directly?

  youtube.com

Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.

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  Native OS APIs are worse to develop against than web APIs, and platform vendors discourage native app development.

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  Native APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.

  tonsky.me

Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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  Building third-party clients for messaging platforms is a legal gray area and often only partially supported by their APIs

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  building a third-party client to read and route messages is a gray area in their terms of service, and perhaps only partially supported in their API surfaces.

  Firehose authentic useadamwiggins.com

Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Swift

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  Swift’s build infra is good enough for most things these days. codex knows how to run iOS apps and how to deal with the Simulator. No special stuff or MCPs needed.

  steipete.me

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  Go

  Their words

  My go-to languages are TypeScript for web stuff, Go for CLIs and Swift if it needs to use macOS stuff or has UI. Go wasn’t something I gave even the slightest thought even a few months ago, but eventually I played around and found that agents are really great at writing it, and its simple type system makes linting fast.

  steipete.me

Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Axiom

  Their words

  Pick services that have CLIs: vercel, psql, gh, axiom.

  steipete.me

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  Vercel

  Their words

  Pick services that have CLIs: vercel, psql, gh, axiom.

  steipete.me

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  GitHub CLI

  Their words

  Pick services that have CLIs: vercel, psql, gh, axiom.

  steipete.me

Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  OpenAI's claim that DeepSeek trained on its outputs is narrative management: other startups bootstrapped exactly that way and were never banned for it.

  OpenAIstartups

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  I think that they're trying to shift the narrative. They're trying to protect themselves. We saw this years ago when ByteDance was actually banned from some OpenAI APIs for training on outputs. There's other AI startups that most people, if you're in the AI culture, were like they just told us they trained on OpenAI outputs and they never got banned.

  youtube.com

Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.

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  Hoppscotch

  Their words

  Hoppscotch for testing APIs, after Insomnia turned to 💩

  sreetamdas.com

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Closing off interoperability is how a platform locks people in, and that lock-in is what lets the service be made worse without losing them.

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  The temptation to enshittify is magnified by the blocks on interoperability: when Twitter bans interoperable clients, nerfs its APIs, and periodically terrorizes its users by suspending them for including their Mastodon handles in their bios, it makes it harder to leave Twitter, and thus increases the amount of enshittification users can be force-fed without risking their departure.

  Tiktok's enshittificationpluralistic.net