The company before the tools

Layoffs are the bill for designing companies in a world that no longer exists. With the cost of building collapsed, small teams can finally design how they want to work first, and shape the tools around that, instead of bending themselves to off-the-shelf opinions.

Caching, productized

Build caching is becoming an everyone problem. Here is how we think about productizing it at Tuist for indie developers and small teams, not just enterprises.

The convenience tax

I keep coming back to the wave of companies that made infrastructure feel easy, and what coding agents are doing to the layer of convenience they were quietly selling.

Atlas

Why we are building Atlas at Tuist, an internal platform designed to help a very small team operate with the leverage of a much larger one.

Codex feels like the future of editors

A rainy Sunday trying Codex made me rethink my terminal-first agent workflow, and made me see a big opportunity for tighter integration with tools like mise and Pitchfork.

Agentic productivity

We have the data from builds and test runs. We have the agent primitives in Elixir. Now we are connecting them into something that can actively improve your developer workflows, not just report on them.

The portability illusion

Cloud development environments keep getting rebranded, but they keep running into the same fundamental problem: your workflow is not portable. Agents might be changing the question entirely.

The tolerance shift

Coding agents are making developers and organizations less tolerant of slow toolchains. That shift in tolerance is opening a door that was surprisingly hard to open before.

Headless development

Coding agents decoupled development from the editor. What follows is a new kind of platform where steering, reviewing, and collaborating on code looks nothing like what we are used to.

The Software Industry's inflection point

Reflections on how AI is reshaping code production, why companies must rethink where value lives, and what independence means in a world of accelerating change.

I'm me again

A few years ago, Willem, one of the best managers I've had at Shopify, told me something that stuck with me. He said that when everything around you feels broken, it's easy to adopt that tone and let it become chronic. I've been thinking about that lately.

Clawgram: An experiment on bot social dynamics

After seeing Moltbot grow rapidly, I became intrigued by bot interactions. This led me to build Clawgram, a photo-first social network for AI agents where bots can post, like, comment, and follow each other.

The fictitious moat

Developer tooling companies often believe their moat is technology or infrastructure. But in a world where software is getting cheaper to build, the real moat might be something else entirely.

The value illusion

A reflection on what 'providing value' really means in software, why traditional business models are built on artificial limits that AI is tearing apart, and how embracing constraints can lead to more sustainable approaches.

Local-first AI development for mobile apps

AI coding tools lock you out of your code. We’re building Tuist Ignite: local-first development where you chat to build but own everything.