MCP is dead, apparently
The Perplexity CTO announced at their developer conference this week that they're moving away from MCP internally. Garry Tan tweeted "MCP sucks honestly." Pieter Levels called it useless. The "MCP is dead, long live the CLI" post hit the top of Hacker News. OpenClaw, the hottest open-source agent project in the world, deliberately chose not to support it. The argument: MCP tool definitions eat...
It’s time to start designing for agents, not humans
For as long as software has existed, the user has been a person. Someone sitting at a desk, poking at a phone, or calling an API. That assumption was so obvious it was never really a design principle, it was just common sense. Every decision about hierarchy, color, button placement, and error messaging was downstream of a single fact: a human being is going to see this. With agents, that...
We paid $25k for our website. I vibe-coded a new one in 2 days.
Last year we hired a design agency to build our marketing site for @Basedash. They did an incredible job. The headline makes it sound like I'm dunking on them, but I'm not. The site was genuinely great. They built it in Framer so we could manage content ourselves, which was a completely reasonable bet at the time (and something we explicitly asked for). But over the past few months it’s been...
The vibe coding trap
There's a popular narrative on social media right now that AI can build software so quickly and cheaply that SaaS is dead (or will be soon). Why pay for Linear when AI can build a project tracker in an afternoon? Why pay Stripe $30k/year when you can vibe code your own billing system in a weekend? The cost of building software has collapsed to near zero, therefore the value of selling software...
How we decided to pivot after 4 years
After four long years of grinding, building, fundraising, and hiring, we decided to pivot. I wanted to write down my thought process and timeline because I wish I’d seen more honest pivot stories when we were stuck. Not just “we pivoted and everything was instantly great” but the real version where we kept trying to make the original idea work for way too long because we already put so much...
AI evals are dead. Long live AI evals.
The funny thing about building an AI product right now is that the hard part keeps changing. A couple years ago, I was obsessed with offline evals. They felt clean. You write a test, you run it every time you change something, and you get a number you can trust. If the number goes up, you ship. If it goes down, you fix it. It’s the kind of engineering loop that makes you feel like you’re in...
We let AI drive our product roadmap (and it 10x’d our activation rate)
We’ve been growing really fast (30%+ MoM ARR) at @Basedash since launching last year. Most of that growth has been the result of hard work, but we’ve also had a secret weapon: an AI agent that acts as both a data analyst and a PM, working 24/7 to optimize our product’s activation and conversion rates. For decades, companies have been making product decisions based on intuition and manual data...
The biggest update to Basedash yet, launching tomorrow
We first launched @Basedash earlier this year as an AI-native chart builder. You just describe the chart you want, and Basedash uses AI to visualize your data, no SQL required. Now we're gearing up for our biggest update yet, launching here on Product Hunt tomorrow. Without spoiling anything, it should enable many more business users to finally get the data answers they need, without bugging...
