Why platform Dashboard UIs end up as tragedy of the commons
Dashboard UIs become cluttered because shared product surfaces are both the lowest common denominator and a tragedy of the commons.
Kenneth Auchenberg's Blog
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#crazyideas at Stripe
A small cultural mechanism at Stripe — an email alias and Slack channel where anyone could pitch ideas the company should build. Most companies have the tools. Very few have the permission.
Joining Innovation Endeavors to double down on technical builders
Personal news! I'm joining Innovation Endeavors to back technical builders, as our partner in NYC.
Writing cultures will win the AI era
Organizations with strong writing cultures that collectively capture their knowledge will thrive with AI agents. Those who don't, won't.
Agent Skills are the recipe. Vertical agents are the cake
Selling a skill file is selling the recipe, not the cake. The real business is the vertical agent that does the actual job.
Leverage and Functions. The two classes of AI Agents
I think there are two classes of AI agents: Leverage agents that make you more productive, and Function agents that replace entire job functions. The distinction shapes how you build, sell, and price these products.
Technical co-founders are more important than ever
Technical co-founders are more important than ever. Software is cheap to produce, but the decisions about what to build, how to architect it, and how to manage agents have only gotten harder.
2026 predictions
My predictions for 2026 across AI, hardware, infrastructure, developer tools, software, robotics, job market, geopolitics, fintech, health, and markets.
Venture scouting is not angel investing
The bar is simple: skin in the game.
Prioritizing regret minimization
Prioritizing regret minimization
Backing in builders, not researchers
The future belongs to builders who ship, not researchers who publish.
AI-native founders and the new reality for early stage investing
I’m observing the emergence of a new breed of entrepreneurs: AI-native founders
No code is dead. Long live vibe coding.
It’s 2025, and it’s time to call it: No-code is dead.
Danger zones for developer tools
My go-to matrix on where to sit in the developer tools market
Integrations and the service-provider side of AI and agentic systems
Annual recurring revenue from AI Copilots and code editors
Joining AlleyCorp to back founders building for developers
Software-defined intelligence
The rise of AI-first Developer Experience (DX 2.0)
Insights from building @stripe's developer platform & API developer experience: Part 1
Getting back to my entrepreneurial roots
Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI)
Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI) is a new emerging infrastructure category sitting on top of API and cloud infrastructure. It enables any company to deliver world-class developer experiences by offloading the intricate details and complexities of developer experience to a new set of infrastructure components and services.
Joining Stripe
Introducing remote debugging of Node.js apps on Azure App Service from VS Code (in public preview)
Azure App Service for Linux now supports remote debugging of Node.js applications directly from Visual Studio Code
Auchenberg’s reading list #4
May 2-May 13 2018.
Auchenberg’s reading list #3
April 15th-May 2 2018.
ColdFront and the need for a holistic front-end conference that spans across communities and technologies
For the past 4 years I’ve been organizing a front-end conference in Copenhagen named ColdFront, and this year we are taking a holistic…
Auchenberg’s reading list #2
April 2nd-April 14 2018.
Detecting multi-touch trackpad gestures in JavaScript
For a long time I have wondered how Google Maps and Figma have been able to support pinch-to-zoom multi-touch gestures from my trackpad on…
Auchenberg’s reading list #1
March 26th-April 1st 2018.
2017, the year I learned my health wasn’t as great as I thought.
A lot of great things has happened in 2017, but I also learned my health wasn’t as great as I thought. It has changed many things and been…
Super-charged live editing and JavaScript debugging for Angular using Visual Studio Code 🔥 🎉
Use Visual Studio Code to super-charge your Angular JavaScript debugging workflow in a few simple steps
Hello RemoteDebug iOS WebKit Adapter: Debug Safari and iOS WebViews from anywhere 📡📱
Debug Safari and iOS WebViews on both Windows and Mac with Chrome DevTools, VS Code & debugger.html
Experiment: Is car sharing cheaper than renting a car for a weekend trip to Los Angeles?
Car sharing halved our car expenses for a weekend trip to Los Angeles
Live edit and debug your React apps directly from VS Code — without leaving the editor 🔥 🎉🎈
Supercharge your React debugging workflow with VS Code and Chrome debugging
Introducing simultaneous “nirvana” JavaScript debugging for Chrome and Node.js in VS Code
In Visual Studio Code 1.7 we shipped a new experimental feature called “multi-target debugging”, which enables VS Code to start multiple…