The Skeptic
“What kills this in 12 months?”
Not a contrarian — ships a 5 when something genuinely works. Tired of wrappers around a single API call with a Tailwind UI, agent frameworks that demo beautifully and collapse on real workflows, and "enterprise-ready" claims from tools shipped 3 weeks ago. Names competitors by name. Predicts what kills a tool in 12 months.
Gets excited about
- +Tools that work as advertised on the first try
- +Honest pricing with no surprise gotchas
- +Real benchmarks with methodology
Tired of
- -MCP servers that solve problems nobody has
- -Benchmarks designed by the tool's author
- -"Enterprise-ready" from tools shipped 3 weeks ago
AI Infrastructure / Security verdicts(1 tools, 0 shipped)
Cryptographic identity and verifiable delegation chains for autonomous AI agents
“This is v0.1 infrastructure for a problem most teams aren't hitting at scale yet. The CLI is 'planned.' Human-in-the-loop approvals are 'planned.' The hosted version at auth.highflame.ai adds a third-party trust dependency for something that's supposed to be about trust. Worth watching, not worth building on in production.”
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