Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit - CEO of MarsBased, angel investor, and writer on AI-Augmented Development while listening to extreme music
This is the last thing you'll hear from me until September. I am taking a break for a month to recharge batteries, and you should too. I don't stop because I've run out of things to say. In fact, I am having more ideas
The old adage says that developers don't build the same app twice. If you're asked to build a very similar app to one you built in the past, it's better to build it from scratch because you're a better developer now.
AI is creating lots and lots of new things scattered around, so I came up with a way to organise my Claude Code sessions.
The slop won't stop. Long live the slop.
Here's my AI stack as of July 2026. It's been stable for six months now!
Connected to WiFi but no login page? It's almost always DNS, in one of two moods. Here's how to force the captive portal and stay secure on public WiFi.
Underengineering is not a lack of craft. It is a deliberate decision to build only what the problem actually requires, and nothing more.
Every time I have to reuse an old session more than five times, I try to convert it into a skill so I don't have to give it instructions every time. That one habit alone has changed how I work.
And that, my friends, is yet another patronising example of social status gatekeeping: poor folks take real risks, rich folks speculate and tell you that they're also risking a lot.
I have been building a tonne of things since January. I build things, they live in demo limbo, habit never forms, and the friction of recovery kills re-engagement, so I stop using them.
The founders most likely to break their company are the ones who never learned to stop building.
WhatsApp is the last inbox nobody has a system for. Here's mine.
Fuck you code is the threshold at which your ability to build something yourself turns every software subscription into a choice rather than a necessity.
The snooze fatigue is a tax you pay for the privilege of maintaining the illusion of managing tasks rather than just doing them.
If you're building a SaaS tool, you should focus on not competing with other similar tools. You might think that it's because the market is already too crowded and there's little differentiation between tools.