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Platforms and developers

You can predict what a platform will neglect from how it earns.

Developer momentum, ecosystems, and where the gaps stay open.

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  1. 01
    building at the edges

    A strong opening in a mature market sits beside the category leader: one painful workflow that its scale, incentives, or architecture neglects.

  2. 02
    vercel vs cloudflare: two philosophies of building for developers

    Two platforms, two theories of the web: Vercel optimizes for the developer at build time, Cloudflare for the request at runtime. I compared their pricing, edge runtimes, and platform boundaries to see where each one wins.

  3. 03
    claude code's DX is too good. and that's a problem.

    Claude Code nails developer experience in ways most people can't articulate. But I'm starting to see a familiar pattern emerge - the same one that's killed great devtools before. Here's what I'm watching for.

  4. 04
    the MCP anti-pattern

    Converting an OpenAPI spec into tools gives an agent more endpoints to juggle. Start with the user's job and design the tool around that workflow.