I hit financial independence and it made me a worse founder. Lazier, softer, no interest in being up before the sun. I wouldn't give it back.

fable has been running for 15 minutes on "can we use inches instead of cm?"

"AI is the great equalizer" is what you see when you only look at one slice of the curve. Studies say it helps beginners most. The market is firing beginners and bidding up veterans. Both are true. Everyone gets faster. Not everyone gets more valuable: justinedwards.me/writing/ever...

Everyone gets faster. Not everyone gets more valuable.

AI looks like the great equalizer. The rookies got better, the gap closed, the floor came up. I think that read is exactly backwards, and it falls apart the moment you stop staring at one slice of the...

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Your CTO is fleecing you. Not on purpose. That's why it keeps happening.

All problems on earth can be solved by an additional query to at least one more AI tool.

SaaS That App - Building B2B Web Applications@saasthatapp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Google, tell me what Claude Code is and what to say on a podcast about it." 🫠 #saasbusiness #saasthatapp #claudeai #claude #claudecode

✅ Right again: our podcast hosts Justin Edwards and Aaron Marchbanks made several predictions at the start of 2026, and here's another one that just came true. Our team knows things, we're just saying. 👀 this.weekinsecurity.com/meta-confirm...

Meta confirms thousands of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

Meta fixed the bug that let anyone trick its Meta AI chatbot into resetting the password on Instagram accounts that didn't have two-factor authentication.

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Service businesses: easy to start, hard to scale. SaaS: hard to start, easy to scale (eventually). The catch? Revenue comes later…bills don’t. That gap kills most founders. More from Geoff McQueen. 🎧 tinyurl.com/4rckmn73

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

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WordPress is dead. Good. A retired friend of my mom's, no technical background, just shipped her own website. Static site generator + Claude. Zero dollars to host. No WordPress.

I'm Justin. I've spent 20+ years shipping software and now run engineering at a dev shop. Cofounded StriveDB, host the SaaS That App podcast. I'll be posting about Ruby, why your cloud bill is too high, security, and AI. Musing to follow.