This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and "The Modern Stack" simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them.

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They only talk about AI
I bet you have 5 shop vacs
It’s all going into applesauce
Live Claude Code It
Good defaults and opinions, nobody wants that
Give me 5 minutes, and I’ll give you fifty 6 page memos
I know I just pulled off a Pivotal scab.
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Something Big Is Happening
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
Modern Stack: Fly.io, Neon, Upstash and Cloudflare

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