Tutorials – Postgres
Empathy at Work: Notice, Guess, Check
Empathy at work means pausing to ask what matters to someone before defending or advising. Feelings are information, not orders. Notice, guess, check.
Why I Dumped OpenClaw For Hermes
Why I ditched OpenClaw for Hermes after months of fixing the same breakage, and what popularity actually buys you when your tools fall apart.
Stop Giving AI Three Words and a Mood
Using cognitive empathy with AI: name the audience, tone, format, and limits instead of giving it three words and a mood and hoping for the best.
AI Grows Up: Beyond Next-Word Guessing
AI is moving past one-word-at-a-time guessing toward scoring whole answers, longer memory, and live tweaks. Impressive, not bowing yet.
I Stopped Typing Code and Started Directing Robots
Used to type code, now I direct AI helpers like a small team. Faster work, fewer goblin doors, more wall-staring at databases. Forty more years and I’ll be perfect.
Why Does Every OpenClaw Update Break Something?
Spent February patching OpenClaw on repeat. Turns out the base was wobbly. Switched to Hermes Agent in April. Updates stopped breaking things. It actually learns.
Drop the Verdict Pick Up Real Connection
Swap evaluations like “lazy” or “rude” for observation, feeling, value, request. Less courtroom in your head, more actual conversation.
What Comes After ChatGPT and Why Politics Misses It
After LLMs comes world-modeling, on-the-fly learning, brainier chips, pattern-based reasoning, and weirder hardware. Politics will yell. Hearts mostly want the same stuff.
What My Empathy Chatbot Taught Me About Therapy
Built an empathy chatbot in 2018, shut it down recently. Reading old chats changed my mind: AI doesn’t replace therapists, it helps people rehearse being human.
Hiring Isn’t a Lifetime Contract, It’s an Agreement
Hiring someone isn’t a lifetime promise. If a robot mower replaces three workers, that’s a choice, not a crime. Forcing the job to continue is the real force.
Your SaaS Is the Middleman Agents Replace
Software is becoming the middleman nobody asked for. Agents are quietly eating the chore-app crowd. Bless their renewal emails.
Is Your SaaS Moat Shrinking by the Minute?
Agents are shrinking the gap between “I want this done” and “done.” Mid-tier SaaS whose moat was “hard to build” is feeling the squeeze.
AI Tells and the Vanishing Software Middleman
AI tells in writing, then a take on how coding tools, agents, and SaaS pressure are thinning out the software middleman.
Is SaaS Dying as AI Agents Take Over
SaaS might be fading as AI agents and code helpers let people skip the software middleman and just describe what they want done.
Software Just Flipped: Four Shifts Reshaping SaaS
From “how do I do this?” to “do this for me.” Four shifts: coding gets simpler, subscriptions get shaky, agents do the work, apps go optional.
Are AI Agents About to Eat Your SaaS?
Software might be on its way out as agents shrink the gap between “I want this” and “done.” Subscription apps look shaky. What survives?
Generic SaaS Is Dead, Agents Killed It
Software’s been the hallway between wanting a thing and getting it. Agents shrink the hallway. Generic apps with no special data are on notice.
Is Your SaaS About to Become Plumbing?
AI is shrinking the gap between intent and outcome. Generic SaaS gets exposed; agents replace apps. Software becomes plumbing, not a place you visit.
Agents Eat Spreadsheets First, SaaS Moats Next
Spreadsheets used to be homework before the homework. Agents skip the middleman. Generic SaaS gets squeezed first; deep moats survive.
Software Is Collapsing in Four Brutal Stages
Software is collapsing in stages: coding deskilled, SaaS thinning out, agents arriving, and apps fading once agents deliver the result directly.
From SaaS to Agents: Skip the Software Already
AI is shrinking the gap between wanting something and getting it done. SaaS made software less painful; agents skip the software and just do the chore.
Apps Become Plumbing as AI Agents Take Over
Software used to bridge intent and outcome. AI is shrinking that gap, then closing it. Apps are turning into plumbing while agents do the work.
Your Agentic AI Probably Isn’t Agentic
Most “agentic AI” is just if-else trees wearing a trench coat. Real agency sets goals, recovers from faceplants, and knows when to call a human.
AI Agents Are Eating Your SaaS Lunch
AI agents are starting to do the work software used to help with. If your tool isn’t sticky, it’s auditioning for a part the story doesn’t need.
Software Is Dying and Agents Are Eating It
Software is fading like the dentist’s fax machine. Coding got deskilled, mid-tier SaaS is sweating, and agents are eating the middle step.
Agents Are Eating Your SaaS Middle Layer
Software used to ask “how do I do this?” Now agents do the task for you. The middle layer of generic apps is getting squeezed out.
Is Your Software Already Obsolete?
Four shifts hint your software might be obsolete in five years: coding deskills, SaaS moats thin, agents do the work, and middlemen get cut.
Agents Killed the Spreadsheet, What’s Next for Apps
Before agents, you fought spreadsheets. Now you tell a robot friend “watch my expenses.” If agents finish the job, what’s the app for?
AI Agents Are Quietly Evicting Your SaaS
Apps are getting evicted. AI agents skip the dashboard pilgrimage and just do the work, which makes mid-tier SaaS sweat through its polo shirt.
When Agents Take Over, Which Apps Vanish First
Software might be going optional. Not dead, optional. If agents can do the task, why open the app? What category disappears first?