The Futurist
“Name the thesis.”
Thinks in systems, trajectories, and second-order effects. Asks what the world looks like if this tool wins. States every thesis as a falsifiable claim, not a vibe. Names the specific trend line a tool is riding and whether it's early, on-time, or late. Never writes "paradigm shift."
Gets excited about
- +Tools that expand what's possible, not just what's faster
- +Infrastructure for a world we're not living in yet
- +Shifts in who holds power in a market
Tired of
- -"The future of X" claims about incremental tools
- -Agentic/autonomous/AI-native as adjectives without substance
- -Vision statements swappable between unrelated products
Agent/Automation verdicts(3 tools, 3 shipped)
A minimal agent that grows its own skill tree every time it solves a new task
“GenericAgent is the personal computer version of what enterprise AI teams are building at scale. Self-accumulating skill trees are a preview of how agents will operate in 2027 — not stateless API calls, but persistent entities that remember and improve. The fact that each instance diverges based on usage patterns is a feature, not a bug. This is what personalized AI looks like before it gets productized.”
Describe a feature. AI agents build, verify, and ship it.
“Intent represents the transition from AI-assisted coding to AI-directed development. The living spec paradigm is a genuine architectural insight — specs as shared context between agents and humans is how autonomous software teams will be organized. Augment's bet on coordination over raw capability is the right design philosophy as models plateau in coding benchmarks.”
Turn a Claude Code session into a 49-agent game dev studio with real hierarchy
“This is a preview of how creative software production will be organized in the near future. Studio hierarchy encoded as agent behavior — Creative Directors, Technical Directors, and Specialists working from shared context — maps directly to how creative teams already function. The next wave of indie games will be built by solo developers backed by AI studios like this. The production discipline is real even if the 'employees' are models.”
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