Rick Blalock

rickblalock.dev/scratch-note… My bet: SaaS survives to some degree in the mid-term. But the assumption that every account will keep expanding does not. ie. SaaS is dead because you can’t grow inside anymore.

Armistice Day One battalion in 1914 And in 1918 Those who survived

@bot can now connect to private MCP servers on your tailnet without exposing them to the public internet. Powered by Tailscale OAuth apps, now GA, so you can build secure agent integrations, too. Read more here: buff.ly/U1J9By1

I've been lying this whole time. I'm sorry, I just found out. I'm just as disappointed in me as you are. That 2-6x faster number I've quoted so much... After some more dogfooding, our results are showing the real numbers are... 2-10x faster. 😄

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Ultrafast is now available on AI Gateway. It generates over 1,000 tokens per second. Use 𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚔/𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚔-𝚟𝟺.𝟷-𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚑-𝟷𝟶𝟷𝟽-𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝 for coding, reasoning, and agents.

SITUATION DETECTED: Bloomington, Indiana's city council voted unanimously this week to ban any recursively self-improving entity capable of greatly outperforming all humans on all cognitive tasks from inside city limits, citing existential hazards and loss of human control.

Introducing: Threadbear, my take on the perfect app for agentic work. I have tried a lot of these, Cursor, Codex, Claude Desktop, T3 Code and none quite hit the spot so I made my own thats powered by @convex Theres too many cool new ideas to fit in a post, checkout: 🧵

Anyone can build now. Few dare to aim big enough. That's why we're launching Southbound W27 by @thelabmiami & @focal_vc today. Code is now cheap, abundant, and written by machines. What’s scarce is real ambition, intelligence, compute, and distribution. It's what Southbound is built for: To help the best technical founders think bigger and move faster from day 1. We're now opening applications to the second cohort of our winter residency. If you want to: - Escape the cold - Work on an absurdly ambitious problem, surrounded by your best technical peers - Get weekly mentorship by unicorn founders - Funding on an uncapped MFN SAFE (vs giving up 7%) - $1M in perks and compute - and much more ... then join us in Miami from Jan 11 - Apr 11 2027. Southbound is: - Limited to 10 spots (teams or solo founders) - Fully in person in Miami - 7 days / week in office. The cohort is small by design: Instead of being a number in a big batch, you get a hand-picked group of your best peers, weekly dinners with unicorn founders, and real time with focal’s GPs. Rolling admission until all 10 spots are filled / applications close Dec 11. Apply asap (link in comments!) @ayalstern | @DanielDarling | @amiine_afia | @wynwoodceo | @SydneyWasi

Top of the Democratic agenda on day 1 needs to be a pause on advanced AI development, regulation of this out of control industry, and a ban on artificial superintelligence.

Do individual limits still make sense? As capabilities increase you want to work with and support an agent that represents your project, that runs loops and evolves your codebase. The humans merely curate the automations.