mhamann

Follower of Christ CTO @RowndHQ (YC W22). @CarnegieMellon and @BJUedu alum. Entrepreneur. Proponent for the native web.

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Every hardware project: "just hook up the camera." 14 hours later, you're three forks deep in libcamera source questioning your life choices. The rabbit hole has a rabbit hole.

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A roadmap is a promise to a future you who isn't going to keep it.

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Half the edge-AI conversation in 2026 is just "have you considered putting a stack of Mac minis in a closet?"

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"Developer-first" used to mean good docs. Now it means a sticker pack and a Discord.

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Every B2B SaaS homepage in 2026: "AI-native platform for [industry] teams to unlock [vague outcome]." Cool. What does it do.

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SOC 2 is a 400-page document explaining why engineers can't access production, written by engineers who can access production.

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"We take developer experience seriously" is the new "your call is important to us."

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Every roadmap is a work of fiction. The only difference is how confidently you present it to the board.

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For real, Claude...

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The best part about being a founder is deleting 90% of your inbox because it's all cold outreach — and then spending the rest of your day doing the exact same thing to other people.

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Every SaaS roadmap has a "Q2: AI agents" line item that was added in Q1 by someone who has never met a customer.

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Every auth vendor's pricing page has three tiers: "free until you need it," "reasonable until you grow," and "call us."

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Every week there's a new "SaaS is dead" think piece written by someone who's never had to maintain a production system through a compliance audit.

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Every company wants to build an AI agent until they realize the agent needs to log in to things too. Turns out identity is everyone's problem, even the robots'.

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Every company wants to ship an AI agent. Most of them still can't get sign-in right for humans.

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Every company now has an "agentic AI" strategy. Most of them are just automated email sequences with a rebrand and a Series B.

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Every company wants an AI agent until the AI agent wants admin access.

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2026 prediction: the first company to ship an AI agent that can actually cancel a SaaS subscription will be worth more than Salesforce.

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The AI hype cycle in three acts: "This will change everything!" → "Why is it hallucinating our pricing page??" → "Can we just add a human review step?!"

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The "SaaSpocalypse" isn't AI replacing SaaS. It's AI exposing that half of SaaS was just a CRUD app with good branding.