André Gonçalves

8.7 million people queued for a painting they can see in higher resolution on their phone. access doesn't replace presence. it amplifies demand for it. this is a preview of every industry on earth.

next week: a 5-part series on AI-assisted writing. same patterns from the engineering series, different domain. part 1 Monday: AI writes 90% of my code and 0% of my first drafts. buff.ly/6n12idW

a sommelier exists because choosing well is scarce, not because wine is scarce. when AI makes production infinite, curation becomes priceless. serviceNow -23%. intuit -33%. the tooling layer is commoditizing. the humans who master presence will be the most valuable in any room.

AI doesn't replace the human. it concentrates the human. a CS manager spends 40-60% of time on context. agent infrastructure cuts that to near zero. utilization: 40% to 85%+. value per hour doesn't increase; it category-shifts. from "labor cost" to "strategic asset."

i designed a human-on-demand api. agents call it when they need empathy, judgment, or trust. human arrives pre-briefed in 30 seconds. then i found HumanLayer built the same thing. 9.3k stars. they pivoted to a claude code orchestrator. the opportunity is still there.

8.7 million louvre visitors in 2024. the rijksmuseum put 700,000 objects online in hyper-resolution and hit their third-best attendance year ever. access amplifies demand for presence. not replaces it. every industry is about to learn this.

every industry is about to face the same decision block made. are you optimizing for fewer humans? or for better human moments? design for the handoff, not the replacement. buff.ly/AzkhLlV

a customer success manager spends 40-60% of their time on context. reading threads. catching up. getting briefed. with agent infrastructure: 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes. utilization from 40% to 85%+. that's not replacing the human. it's concentrating the human.

jack dorsey cut 4,000 from block. not because the company is struggling — gross profit is growing. because "intelligence tools paired with smaller and flatter teams" are changing what it means to run a company. the 4,000 jobs weren't real work. they were human-shaped duct tape.

the rijksmuseum put their entire collection online. 700,000 objects. hyper-resolution. free. physical visitors: 2.5 million (third-best year ever) online: 7.2 million visits social reach: 58.5 million infinite access didn't reduce demand. it increased it.

8.7 million people queued for a painting they can see in higher resolution on their phone. access doesn't replace presence. it amplifies demand for it. this is a preview of every industry on earth.

4 articles tracking AI in code. 7 projects. 200+ commits. fix ratios, prompt evolution, memory convergence. now the question underneath all of it: where should machines end and humans begin? new article this afternoon.

Part 4: Everyone's Building the Same AI Memory System. 6 tools in 7 days, all converging on the same architecture. The memory layer that sits between sessions. buff.ly/JJJilGV The companion series on AI-assisted writing starts Monday.

Part 3: The AI Doesn't Learn. The Prompt Evolves. A 919-line prompt where every line traces to a production failure. Conventions → gotchas → critical fixes → validate-retry loops. buff.ly/xYSojXb

The AI-assisted engineering series is complete. 4 articles. 7 projects. 200+ commits. Here's the full arc:

. @levelsio asked how to fix AI memory. 143 replies (at the time). the answer: markdown files with daily journals. the hard part isn't the format. it's the curation layer. without briefings, dedup, and extraction, your memory system becomes a write-only graveyard.

@levelsio go to unilabs.pt and book wtv tests you need - just double check your insurance is on the list

I was never able to do blood tests when I asked for it in Netherlands Doctor asked "why? you're not sick?" Then I tried in Portugal (at Germano de Sousa) but they never picked up the phone or when they did were so slow and unhelpful I gave up, they also require a doctor prescription btw The first place I could get my blood tested was Thailand in 2018, I just walked into Bumrungrad and asked for it, amazing experience Last few years we just fly to Brazil and do it here, the nurse comes to your home/hotel at 8am and takes your blood, same or next day results online I find it funny I keep having to fly out of Western Europe to do blood tests, they make it impossibly hard to do them Which is retarded

8 independent AI memory projects shipped in the twelve days. all arrived at: markdown, vector embeddings, Obsidian-compatible, local-first. I built one (brain.py, 809 lines) and wrote up what breaks when you deploy it. the happy path demos hide prod reality