thomas.io

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[thomas.io @tompec]

AI agents will not kill 80% of SaaS.
They will kill all the SaaS that didn't deserve to exist in the first place.

But the idea that SaaS will be replaced by agents has several flaws:

- The moment an agent does something useful and repeatable, it gets turned into a deterministic system. Once you figure out a workflow, you don't want probabilistic answers.

- No one is going to wait for an agent to generate a custom app every time they need to do a task. If they do, thinking they'll use it again, congrats they now have custom software they have to maintain.

- The reason most people don't build software isn't just because they can't code, it's because they don't know what they actually want. Great products exist because someone put a lot of thought and iteration over an extended period of time.

AI is gonna enable 100x the amount of SaaS that we have today.

[thomas.io @tompec]

@wesbos i built https://t.co/6HNUXqSH9q to solve this

[thomas.io @tompec]

If you use FluxUI, I've just published a SKILL to help you feed the docs to your favourite coding agent.

https://t.co/X44n0o5y72

cc @calebporzio @hugosaintemarie

[thomas.io @tompec]

If you love your parents, it is your moral duty to clone your voice and try to scam them, before someone else does it.

[thomas.io @tompec]

I context engineered my new doctor.

Before the visit, I used ChatGPT to compress my hospital reports into a 1-page context doc.

Handed it over.

He skipped the usual questions and went straight to next steps.

Better context = better inference.

[thomas.io @tompec]

@ronak_lakhotia you give https://t.co/pPnTAJgPPe a try 🤙

[thomas.io @tompec]

The Google lawsuit against SerpApi is the definition of hypocrisy.

Their announcement claims it's about stopping SerpApi from reselling "copyrighted content".

But the actual lawsuit is built entirely on the DMCA, suing them for circumventing their anti-bot measure "SearchGuard".

They can't sue for scraping (it's legal).
They can't block them (proxies win).

So they are trying to legally lock down the very same data they scraped.

[thomas.io @tompec]

No one is getting replaced by AI.
They're getting replaced by people who use it.

[thomas.io @tompec]

The EU's most profitable product is regulation.

[david fant @da_fant]

EU makes more from fines on US tech, than tax from ALL of public European tech

in 2024 EU fined US tech companies €3.8B meanwhile public internet tech companies paid only €3.2B in income tax

[thomas.io @tompec]

One day we'll look back at AI as something we needed to "talk to". Just like how we used to start our routers back in the day. In the future it will be always on, just like the internet.

[thomas.io @tompec]

First time I see this. Pay extra to get an invoice.

[thomas.io @tompec]

Today I learned why Spain seems to eat so late.

It was on the same time as the UK until 1940.
Then they moved their clocks 1 hour forward during WW2 to sync with Nazi Germany and never changed back.

So Spain now lives about an hour ahead of its natural solar time.

[thomas.io @tompec]

Software lets you make money while you sleep.
AI lets you make software while you eat.

[thomas.io @tompec]

i'm sitting at a cafe and some middle aged man just read his entire credit card number out loud over the phone

[thomas.io @tompec]

France is stuck in this mindset where fixing the budget means restricting/cutting/taxing, when it should be building/enabling/simplifying.

[thomas.io @tompec]

@mert This hasn’t happen and likely won’t happen, but the direction this is going is in fact concerning.

[thomas.io @tompec]

This guy has a yearly calendar event to post misinformation.

[thomas.io @tompec]

China: our surveillance tech can find anyone in 7 minutes.
France: someone stole the Louvre’s jewels in 7 minutes.

[thomas.io @tompec]

@nikitabier

[thomas.io @tompec]

I judge every new product I see by how much it fuels the dead internet theory. Sadly, recently, a lot of them do.