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Notes on AI, software, ecommerce, and building in public.
- AI Subscriptions Make Good AI Products Harder to Sell
- Working in Codex Is Surprisingly Satisfying
- AI is very good at de-anonymizing businesses for sale
- Astra Uses More Codex Quota Than Its API Price Suggests
- New model stress
- Shopify app developers should be reaching out to agencies
- Building increasingly complex software with AI
- Shopify headless agency comparison
- Outbound email worked better than job applications
- Codex says it is comfortable
- How are Shopify App Store ads performing right now?
- Content strategy for Shopify app UCP use cases
- Is anyone still doing well with the Shopify App Store?
- Reminders That Keep Bugging Me
- The uglier the outbound website, the more you can trust it
- Why does Google Search Console need browser control?
- Agencies should be pumping out more case studies
- Commerce Land is appearing in Google AI Overviews
- AI makes great anonymized candidate profiles possible at scale
- Are agencies publishing more case studies now?
- They wanted the AI back
- I never have to fill out a form again
- A physical button for voice-to-text
- AI makes technical debt manageable
- AI slop detector video
- I automated the last thing I still typed by hand
- I hate MCPs for an entirely different reason now
- An outbound voice agent qualified a real lead
- The ideas that keep coming back
- Token-min'ing
- Agent quota at night
- A lot of what we call AI slop is AI being smarter than us
- Coding agents need better prompt navigation
- Can I get away with raw voice transcription?
- Agentic shopping turns errands asynchronous
- AI delegation became muscle memory
- Building a Markdown editor with Codex
- Core Web Vitals mattered after all
- Paid voice crosses the presence threshold
- Voice AI as a coach
- Point Codex at the forums
- Manager of makers
- Stop babysitting AI agents
- My 2022 AI prediction
- Rewiring to work at a higher level with AI