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I've struggled to manage my work and personal email for years. Recently, I found my solution: use Superhuman Mail . The Problem: I get tons of emails that are not easy to unsubscribe from or automatically filter. A lot of it is cold outreach from salespeople. A lot of it is updates from kid events, school, etc., and requests for surveys, interviews, and paid engagements. These are not easy to filter out using traditional Gmail filters. Plus, setting up all these filters takes time. What I Tried: First, I switched to Hey.com, attracted by its approach of grouping emails—like the paper trail and the feed. I appreciated features like bubble-up, but after 18 months, Hey didn’t meet my needs. The platform emphasizes categorization and quick reading over archiving, making it difficult for me to maintain a zero-inbox, especially with my high volume. Additionally, as I continued using Hey, issues emerged: some contacts emailed my Hey address, while others stuck with Gmail, making managing ...

One of my favorite movies of all time is V for Vendetta . There’s a particular scene that sticks in my memory: it’s towards the end of the movie, when Inspector Finch is talking to his assistant Dominic Stone. Here’s the clip  (it's worth the 1-minute watch). This is how I feel about AI in 2026, specifically AI-assisted software development. Let’s start with a timeline of the last 18 months. These are just the major milestones that I’ve personally engaged with in a meaningful way; trying to provide a timeline of all AI launches over the last 18 months would make this post insanely long. Some quick points first: I reference a lot of Steve Yegge’s posts and work. In my view, he’s the current thought leader in AI-assisted development and literally wrote the book on Vibe Coding. He’s also pushing the envelope with the tools he’s building, as you will see later in the post. While this post was AI-assisted, of course, the vast majority of it was written by me. Let’s begin! Timeline June...