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May 26, 2026 · Mana Team
Best AI assistant for creating content on iPhone: where Mana fits
A practical guide for people searching for an AI assistant that creates useful, shareable content on iPhone — and how Mana differs from chatbots, no-code builders, and mobile design tools.
aiiphonecontent creationapp builderReadApr 11, 2026 · SimonAKing
Vercel deep dive — the most underrated infrastructure company of the AI era
If you still think Vercel is "a tool for deploying frontends," you've seen about 10% of the picture. $9.3B valuation, $340M ARR growing 84% YoY, and the company sits exactly where the next wave of agent-shaped software wants to land.
infravercelaiReadApr 10, 2026 · SimonAKing
Poke — the AI agent living inside iMessage, and why Silicon Valley went all-in
No app. No website. Just a contact in your phone you text. Poke turned the most boring distribution channel — SMS — into the most interesting AI product of the year. Here's why it works, and what every team building agents should steal from it.
aiagentsproductReadApr 9, 2026 · SimonAKing
Every agent needs a computer — what Anthropic Managed Agents tells us about the sandbox stack
LLM infrastructure is converging on a single, slightly heretical idea — the filesystem is the most important piece of agent infra. Here's why three independent teams landed on the same answer, what Anthropic's Managed Agents architecture clarified, and where the sandbox market is going.
engineeringagentsinfraReadApr 8, 2026 · SimonAKing
Everyone's moving from the IDE to the ADE. Are you still writing code?
The editor isn't the main character anymore. A new layer — the agent orchestrator — has taken its seat, and Cursor, Warp, cmux, and Claude Code already prove the shift isn't a forecast. It's the present.
agentsdeveloper-toolsReadApr 7, 2026 · SimonAKing
The world model landscape — from 30-second mini-games to billion-dollar seed rounds
Two camps are squeezing the world model space from opposite ends — billion-dollar research labs at the top, "vibe-coded" mini-games at the bottom. Here are 40+ products, four technical paths, seven business shapes, and an honest read on what's actually working.
aiworld-modelsmarketReadApr 5, 2026 · SimonAKing
After Linear, Notion, and Basecamp all turned their products into chat boxes
Linear declared issue tracking dead. Notion shipped autonomous agents. Basecamp went CLI-first. Figma launched Skills. In one week the SaaS industry collectively staged an identity crisis — every product is asking the same question: if AI can do the work, what is my UI for?
saasagentsproductReadApr 4, 2026 · SimonAKing
Apple's AI dilemma — a trillion-dollar company's hubris, infighting, and possible redemption
Apple started this race before anyone else. Fourteen years later, Siri is the industry's punchline, twelve senior leaders have left in a single year, and the company is paying Google a billion a year to power its next assistant. Here's what went wrong, what they're trying, and why the next eighteen months matter.
appleaistrategyReadApr 3, 2026 · SimonAKing
After burning 25B tokens — the Claude Code guide, part 1 — the unreasonable reality
We burned 25 billion tokens on Claude Code building Mana. Two Max x20 accounts in rotation, 13+ hours a day. Here's part 1 of what we learned — why the tool is the best AI dev tool of 2026, why your bill is mysteriously huge, and where 80% of your tokens are quietly leaking.
claude-codeaiengineeringReadApr 3, 2026 · SimonAKing
The Claude Code guide, part 2 — accounts, config, opusplan, and context management
Part 2 of the 25-billion-token Claude Code guide — the parts that actually save money. Account and billing pitfalls, the tools worth installing, my full settings.json explained line by line, the hidden opusplan mode, and the context-management discipline that cuts token waste in half.
claude-codeaiengineeringReadApr 3, 2026 · SimonAKing
The Claude Code guide, part 3 — CLAUDE.md, MCP, the .claude folder, and cross-review with Codex
Part 3 of the 25-billion-token Claude Code guide — the highest-ROI investments. How to write a CLAUDE.md that cuts 30–40% of token use, which MCPs to install, the full anatomy of the .claude folder, session scripting, and the workflow that has GPT review Claude's code.
claude-codeaiengineeringReadApr 1, 2026 · SimonAKing
A $380B company's underwear, pulled down by a missing .npmignore
512,000 lines of Claude Code source went public via a source map. Most of the coverage covers the code. Here's the part most people skipped — what it tells you about Anthropic's strategy, their roadmap, and the gap between *"safety-first AI"* and the actual release process.
industryanthropicengineeringReadMar 31, 2026 · SimonAKing
When AI starts hiring humans — a tour of the agent economy
678,437 humans signed up waiting to be rented by AI. Fewer than 100 active agent employers. The supply-demand inversion is the most surreal data point of 2026 — and it's only one slice of an emerging stack of payment, identity, and orchestration infrastructure for the agent economy.
aiagentseconomyReadMar 30, 2026 · SimonAKing
The 2026 Q1 AI product review — what shipped, what shipped well, what faceplanted
30+ products graded across product / tech / distribution. Two game-changers. Six top-tier. A long middle. Eight faceplants — including some of the year's biggest names. Personal opinions, not investment advice.
marketproductsaiReadMar 29, 2026 · SimonAKing
The CLI renaissance — a commercial earthquake nobody's calling by its name
In one week, three heavyweight platforms shipped official CLIs. The reason isn't nostalgia. The CLI is the cleanest interface AI agents have ever had — and the SaaS world is quietly being rewired around that fact.
aiinfrasaasReadMar 28, 2026 · SimonAKing
2026 Q1 AI funding has gone fully unhinged — five threads underneath the $189B month
$189B raised in a single month. 83% of it went to three companies. AI swallowed 90% of global venture dollars in February. The aggregate numbers are wild — but the more interesting story is which verticals are quietly minting unicorns underneath the giants.
marketfundingaiReadMar 27, 2026 · SimonAKing
The next step in AI coding isn't a stronger model — it's how the agents team up
Two AIs arguing in adjacent terminals. When they independently agree, the team's adoption rate hits 100%. Model *diversity* is starting to beat model *capability*. Here's the toolchain making it real.
aiengineeringagentsReadMar 26, 2026 · SimonAKing
AI mini-game communities — the next UGC revolution after TikTok
Seven products in one corner of the AI map, all converging on the same shape — natural-language game creation plus full-screen social feed plus remix. From Spielwerk and Gizmo (now Meta-acquired) to Web3-native Remix and Roblox's AI pivot — here's the breakdown.
aigamesugcReadMar 20, 2026 · SimonAKing
Three pivots in three months, one belief that didn't move
We've started over twice this year. Both times we shipped what we set out to build, and both times the platform reminded us we don't own the runtime. Here's what we learned, and what we're building now.
foundersmanaRead