Saadiq Rodgers-King

AI Transformation Consultant with 20+ years in tech helps professionals leverage AI tools to boost productivity. Shares practical insights from FinTech, Web3, and SaaS experience.

📍 Brooklyn, NY https://saadiq.xyz

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Linus Torvalds with a banger

The creator of Linux and Git has no patience for rules about which tools you're allowed to use. His email speaks for itself. Plus a few thoughts on why new tools feel like a threat once the rituals have quietly replaced the goal.

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Software Is Content Now

I built my own version of a freemium phone game on the way to school drop-off instead of downloading it. The same shift is hitting app makers, Adobe, and startup strategy, and it changes how we judge a business, a job, or a bet.

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Crawling Down the Stack

With AI maintaining it, I can run my site on a bare server instead of paying a platform to make hosting easy. Middlemen from hosting platforms to Airtable sell that ease. Agents deliver it for cents, eventually for free, so their customers shrink to people who haven't heard about AI yet.

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Your Checking Account Runs on Friction

Your checking account pays almost nothing, and you leave money there anyway because moving it is a hassle. AI agents that handle the hassle could change how households manage cash, and bank stocks already flinched. It's a preview of how today's AI changes everyday life without getting any smarter.

6ab1acf61a6b1b06a8395af5 2026-09-22

Jev took AI in a direction I wasn't expecting

Staying current with AI pays off when you can test a new model against real work and get it into a live trial over a weekend. That's what I did with Jev in a client's email workflow, at about a quarter of the cost per call.

6aac5cae6988a746c0d6f73c 2026-09-17

I Retired Raycast

As AI moves into every app, users are being asked to pay again for intelligence they already buy elsewhere. My move from Raycast to Tinycast shows how that changes software pricing, adoption, and moats.

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Five Subscribers From Nowhere

Better attribution gave me an answer I didn't want. Without an agent checking the web server logs, I wouldn't have found it until the spam reports arrived.

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I Don't Use Wispr Flow. I Understand Why People Pay for It.

As AI makes capable software easier to build, choosing among good options becomes work. A familiar product can be worth a small premium when it gives you a reasonable place to stop looking.

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The Economics of Software for One

AI lowers the cost of implementation. Building for yourself lowers the cost of figuring out what to build and makes software for a market of one practical.

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The Workflow Breakthrough I Had to Delete

Companies are building workflows around what today’s AI can’t do. As the technology improves, those workarounds can preserve unnecessary labor and keep better models working like the ones they replaced. A notification hook I depended on showed me how useful scaffolding becomes a constraint.

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