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Hi Friends,

Key Takeaway

Don’t give AI agents write access to your production database. Give them a read-only PostgreSQL user — your data can’t be mutated. Hooks can’t promise that.

The Problem With “AI as Interface to Everything”...

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Cursor Made Agentic Coding WYSIWYG

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Why I Cancelled My Claude Code and ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions (for Side Projects)

Last week I posted a simple tweet and it exploded (300k+ views).

I said I cancelled both Claude Code Pro and ChatGPT Pro.

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Power Plants and Steam Engines: How SDKs Will Solve the Compute Crisis

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This is an off-beat mid-week newsletter, but I had to send it — last week was a blast:

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AI companies, tools, and harnesses are rac...

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I don't know — but here's how I'd find out

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You’re not.

I wrote t...

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