More apps are shipping to the app stores, but the same number of apps are getting downloaded.
In this one we're pushing a pram round Bournemouth with a one-month-old and making sense of the current AI moment — from the slop machine that online advertising has become to why the big frontier model bet may have misfired, and what a walking creature that just falls over can teach us about software development.
We feel our way through some stuff:
* \"Trend slop\" ... how every frontier AI model tends to give you the same strategic advice regardless of context (and what does change its answer — infuriatingly)
* Why running a team of AI agents is starting to sound suspiciously like managing that guy from Memento
* The harness that matters more than the model — and why the frontier model arms race may have already peaked
* \"Boring tiny tools\": the overlooked category of software that now makes sense to build (until the pricing changed)
* What an evolutionary algorithm that learned to just fall over reveals about agentic engineering realities
* Why growing software might be better than thinking we can build it
Jus' tryna think clearly about AI and block out all the hype and panic.
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