"It's all still there, it’s just buried" 🔗
Not to get too melancholic about it, but it felt 2025 was the year the industry hit a low point, and dragged me down with it. You likely feel the same way, based on your overwhelming feedback (except for one of you who said Claude Code was “good, actually”). I don’t want to go as far as to call it a mid-life crisis, but more a general sadness and sense of ennui at a world seemingly hellbent on seeing the two possible ways of doing something, and choosing the bad one every time. 2026 has only accelerated this trend, whether it be represented in shows like CES, or the continued hosing down of fires with investor capital.
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In a more practical sense, I’ve also found renewed interest and joy in all the stuff that Torb describes. Paring down my RSS feeds away from the general tech news and focusing on real people doing real things and thinking real thoughts has been nothing short of a revelation. All that cool, innovative, fun, creative, wonderful stuff that I missed is all still there, it’s just buried.