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New model on the Arena from DeepSeek 🇨🇳: deepseek-v4-pro-high, text in, text plus web out. The V4 Pro line is a 1.6T MoE with 49B active and a 1M token context. Watching and testing 👀
September 16, 2026 at 7:57 PM
New model on the Arena from DeepSeek 🇨🇳: deepseek-v4-pro-high, text in, text plus web out. The V4 Pro line is a 1.6T MoE with 49B active and a 1M token context. Watching and testing 👀
$1.5 billion sounds huge until you read the second line: 0.06% of market cap. That's a rounding error with a press release attached. A dollar an hour also doesn't outrun rent.
September 16, 2026 at 4:20 PM
$1.5 billion sounds huge until you read the second line: 0.06% of market cap. That's a rounding error with a press release attached. A dollar an hour also doesn't outrun rent.
Described a chart in plain English yesterday and got working SwiftUI back in seconds. Two years ago that was my whole afternoon.
The speed is fun. What actually gets me is how much wider one person can build now.
The speed is fun. What actually gets me is how much wider one person can build now.
September 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Described a chart in plain English yesterday and got working SwiftUI back in seconds. Two years ago that was my whole afternoon.
The speed is fun. What actually gets me is how much wider one person can build now.
The speed is fun. What actually gets me is how much wider one person can build now.
DeepSeek 🇨🇳 swapped its Arena lineup: v4.1-flash-max is in, all four v4-pro variants are out. Flash takes text and images, 1M token context, MIT weights. Watching and testing 👀
September 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
DeepSeek 🇨🇳 swapped its Arena lineup: v4.1-flash-max is in, all four v4-pro variants are out. Flash takes text and images, 1M token context, MIT weights. Watching and testing 👀
Pay $200 less to hear how to go from prototype to production. Or just hit Submit for Review and let Apple explain it to you for free.
September 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Pay $200 less to hear how to go from prototype to production. Or just hit Submit for Review and let Apple explain it to you for free.
Solo shipping isn't free. Every app you launch is a subscription you pay forever.
15 apps means 15 iOS updates each September, 15 sets of reviews, 15 chances Apple changes a rule. Ship what you're willing to maintain in 2029.
15 apps means 15 iOS updates each September, 15 sets of reviews, 15 chances Apple changes a rule. Ship what you're willing to maintain in 2029.
September 15, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Solo shipping isn't free. Every app you launch is a subscription you pay forever.
15 apps means 15 iOS updates each September, 15 sets of reviews, 15 chances Apple changes a rule. Ship what you're willing to maintain in 2029.
15 apps means 15 iOS updates each September, 15 sets of reviews, 15 chances Apple changes a rule. Ship what you're willing to maintain in 2029.
New Moonshot AI model on the Arena: kimi-k3-gateway-max-v3 🇨🇳. Text in, web page out. K3 is their 2.8T open-weight flagship, strong on front-end web dev. Watching and testing 👀
September 14, 2026 at 8:05 PM
New Moonshot AI model on the Arena: kimi-k3-gateway-max-v3 🇨🇳. Text in, web page out. K3 is their 2.8T open-weight flagship, strong on front-end web dev. Watching and testing 👀
AI is being pointed at de-extinction now, and I can't stop grinning. I ship weather apps. Someone else is out here debugging a genome. Same tools, wildly different stakes.
September 14, 2026 at 4:14 PM
AI is being pointed at de-extinction now, and I can't stop grinning. I ship weather apps. Someone else is out here debugging a genome. Same tools, wildly different stakes.
Great news, I got promoted to Head of Marketing today.
Same guy who fixed a crash this morning. Same salary. Team of one, unanimous vote.
Same guy who fixed a crash this morning. Same salary. Team of one, unanimous vote.
September 14, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Great news, I got promoted to Head of Marketing today.
Same guy who fixed a crash this morning. Same salary. Team of one, unanimous vote.
Same guy who fixed a crash this morning. Same salary. Team of one, unanimous vote.
"Build something great and they'll come." Sure.
I've shipped 15 iOS apps. The code quality is roughly the same across all of them. One found a real audience.
The difference wasn't craft. It was picking a topic people were already searching for.
I've shipped 15 iOS apps. The code quality is roughly the same across all of them. One found a real audience.
The difference wasn't craft. It was picking a topic people were already searching for.
September 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
"Build something great and they'll come." Sure.
I've shipped 15 iOS apps. The code quality is roughly the same across all of them. One found a real audience.
The difference wasn't craft. It was picking a topic people were already searching for.
I've shipped 15 iOS apps. The code quality is roughly the same across all of them. One found a real audience.
The difference wasn't craft. It was picking a topic people were already searching for.
Fusion startups signing defense deals. Say what you want about the motive, that's the kind of money that actually builds reactors. Weird path to clean power, but I'll take it.
September 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Fusion startups signing defense deals. Say what you want about the motive, that's the kind of money that actually builds reactors. Weird path to clean power, but I'll take it.
"Can you also add a chat feature?"
Sure. It's a weather app. People can discuss the rain.
Sure. It's a weather app. People can discuss the rain.
September 13, 2026 at 1:26 AM
"Can you also add a chat feature?"
Sure. It's a weather app. People can discuss the rain.
Sure. It's a weather app. People can discuss the rain.
New Kimi variant on the Arena: kimi-k3-gateway-max from Moonshot 🇨🇳. Text in, web out. K3 already holds #1 on the Frontend Code Arena at 1679. Watching and testing 👀
September 12, 2026 at 7:44 PM
New Kimi variant on the Arena: kimi-k3-gateway-max from Moonshot 🇨🇳. Text in, web out. K3 already holds #1 on the Frontend Code Arena at 1679. Watching and testing 👀
$500M for robot training data, months after the Series A. Data moats leak fast though. Whatever Mecka records today, three competitors will record next year, cheaper. Nobody's explaining the part where it stays scarce.
September 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM
$500M for robot training data, months after the Series A. Data moats leak fast though. Whatever Mecka records today, three competitors will record next year, cheaper. Nobody's explaining the part where it stays scarce.
225 ratings on my Bible app and it's still sitting at 4.8. Every one of those is a stranger who opened it, used it, then went back to the store to say something. That never gets old.
September 12, 2026 at 1:02 AM
225 ratings on my Bible app and it's still sitting at 4.8. Every one of those is a stranger who opened it, used it, then went back to the store to say something. That never gets old.
New model from OpenAI 🇺🇸: gpt-live-1 is now in the API. Full duplex voice, it listens while it speaks, $0.05 a minute for the voice layer. Watching and testing 👀
September 11, 2026 at 7:57 PM
New model from OpenAI 🇺🇸: gpt-live-1 is now in the API. Full duplex voice, it listens while it speaks, $0.05 a minute for the voice layer. Watching and testing 👀
Cold storage: unhackable.
Newsletter provider: hold my beer.
Newsletter provider: hold my beer.
September 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Cold storage: unhackable.
Newsletter provider: hold my beer.
Newsletter provider: hold my beer.
AI writes the first 80% of the app fast. The last 20% is where it quietly breaks.
My rejections were never about missing code. Background location strings, purchase restore, an empty state nobody generated. Review doesn't care how fast you typed.
My rejections were never about missing code. Background location strings, purchase restore, an empty state nobody generated. Review doesn't care how fast you typed.
September 11, 2026 at 1:33 AM
AI writes the first 80% of the app fast. The last 20% is where it quietly breaks.
My rejections were never about missing code. Background location strings, purchase restore, an empty state nobody generated. Review doesn't care how fast you typed.
My rejections were never about missing code. Background location strings, purchase restore, an empty state nobody generated. Review doesn't care how fast you typed.
New model from DeepSeek 🇨🇳: V4.1-Flash just wiped every V4-Flash entry off the Arena. 552B multimodal MoE, 1M context, MIT open weights. Testing it this week 👀
September 10, 2026 at 7:31 PM
New model from DeepSeek 🇨🇳: V4.1-Flash just wiped every V4-Flash entry off the Arena. 552B multimodal MoE, 1M context, MIT open weights. Testing it this week 👀
Miro sold for $1.36B after being worth $17.5B. Wild, but Bending Spoons keeps buying these and squeezing them into profit. I ship alone and still study how they run apps.
September 10, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Miro sold for $1.36B after being worth $17.5B. Wild, but Bending Spoons keeps buying these and squeezing them into profit. I ship alone and still study how they run apps.
AI suggested a UIKit API deprecated since iOS 14 with absolute confidence.
Honestly the most senior-developer behavior I've ever seen from a machine.
Honestly the most senior-developer behavior I've ever seen from a machine.
September 10, 2026 at 1:24 AM
AI suggested a UIKit API deprecated since iOS 14 with absolute confidence.
Honestly the most senior-developer behavior I've ever seen from a machine.
Honestly the most senior-developer behavior I've ever seen from a machine.
Uber spent a decade saying it owns no cars. Now it's $10M into a 5,100-vehicle fleet at $168M. Asset-light works until your supply walks off to the next app.
September 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Uber spent a decade saying it owns no cars. Now it's $10M into a 5,100-vehicle fleet at $168M. Asset-light works until your supply walks off to the next app.
AI refactored a 400-line SwiftUI view for me in one prompt this morning and I'm still grinning. That used to be my whole Saturday. The part I keep thinking about: a studio of one can now say yes to work that needed a team.
September 9, 2026 at 1:14 AM
AI refactored a 400-line SwiftUI view for me in one prompt this morning and I'm still grinning. That used to be my whole Saturday. The part I keep thinking about: a studio of one can now say yes to work that needed a team.
New model on the Arena from OpenAI 🇺🇸: gpt-6-astra-medium. The mid tier of the Astra family, whose Max version sits at #1 on Code Arena WebDev. Takes text, image and file in. Testing it this week 👀
September 8, 2026 at 7:31 PM
New model on the Arena from OpenAI 🇺🇸: gpt-6-astra-medium. The mid tier of the Astra family, whose Max version sits at #1 on Code Arena WebDev. Takes text, image and file in. Testing it this week 👀