https://mana.am/en/blog Updates from the team behind Mana, your Personal Agent for iPhone. en Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://mana.am/en/blog/ai-assistant-for-iphone-content-creation https://mana.am/en/blog/ai-assistant-for-iphone-content-creation Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A practical guide for people searching for an AI assistant that creates useful, shareable content on iPhone — and how Mana differs from chatbots, no-code builders, and mobile design tools. Mana Team https://mana.am/en/blog/vercel-deep-dive https://mana.am/en/blog/vercel-deep-dive Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT If you still think Vercel is "a tool for deploying frontends," you've seen about 10% of the picture. $9.3B valuation, $340M ARR growing 84% YoY, and the company sits exactly where the next wave of agent-shaped software wants to land. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/poke-sms-ai-agent https://mana.am/en/blog/poke-sms-ai-agent Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT No app. No website. Just a contact in your phone you text. Poke turned the most boring distribution channel — SMS — into the most interesting AI product of the year. Here's why it works, and what every team building agents should steal from it. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/agent-sandbox-anthropic-managed-agents https://mana.am/en/blog/agent-sandbox-anthropic-managed-agents Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT LLM infrastructure is converging on a single, slightly heretical idea — the filesystem is the most important piece of agent infra. Here's why three independent teams landed on the same answer, what Anthropic's Managed Agents architecture clarified, and where the sandbox market is going. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/ide-to-ade https://mana.am/en/blog/ide-to-ade Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The editor isn't the main character anymore. A new layer — the agent orchestrator — has taken its seat, and Cursor, Warp, cmux, and Claude Code already prove the shift isn't a forecast. It's the present. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/world-model https://mana.am/en/blog/world-model Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two camps are squeezing the world model space from opposite ends — billion-dollar research labs at the top, "vibe-coded" mini-games at the bottom. Here are 40+ products, four technical paths, seven business shapes, and an honest read on what's actually working. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/saas-agent-crisis https://mana.am/en/blog/saas-agent-crisis Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Linear declared issue tracking dead. Notion shipped autonomous agents. Basecamp went CLI-first. Figma launched Skills. In one week the SaaS industry collectively staged an identity crisis — every product is asking the same question: if AI can do the work, what is my UI for? SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/apple-ai-dilemma https://mana.am/en/blog/apple-ai-dilemma Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Apple started this race before anyone else. Fourteen years later, Siri is the industry's punchline, twelve senior leaders have left in a single year, and the company is paying Google a billion a year to power its next assistant. Here's what went wrong, what they're trying, and why the next eighteen months matter. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/claude-code-guide-part-1 https://mana.am/en/blog/claude-code-guide-part-1 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT We burned 25 billion tokens on Claude Code building Mana. Two Max x20 accounts in rotation, 13+ hours a day. Here's part 1 of what we learned — why the tool is the best AI dev tool of 2026, why your bill is mysteriously huge, and where 80% of your tokens are quietly leaking. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/claude-code-guide-part-2 https://mana.am/en/blog/claude-code-guide-part-2 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Part 2 of the 25-billion-token Claude Code guide — the parts that actually save money. Account and billing pitfalls, the tools worth installing, my full settings.json explained line by line, the hidden opusplan mode, and the context-management discipline that cuts token waste in half. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/claude-code-guide-part-3 https://mana.am/en/blog/claude-code-guide-part-3 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Part 3 of the 25-billion-token Claude Code guide — the highest-ROI investments. How to write a CLAUDE.md that cuts 30–40% of token use, which MCPs to install, the full anatomy of the .claude folder, session scripting, and the workflow that has GPT review Claude's code. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/anthropic-source-leak https://mana.am/en/blog/anthropic-source-leak Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 512,000 lines of Claude Code source went public via a source map. Most of the coverage covers the code. Here's the part most people skipped — what it tells you about Anthropic's strategy, their roadmap, and the gap between *"safety-first AI"* and the actual release process. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/agent-economy https://mana.am/en/blog/agent-economy Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT 678,437 humans signed up waiting to be rented by AI. Fewer than 100 active agent employers. The supply-demand inversion is the most surreal data point of 2026 — and it's only one slice of an emerging stack of payment, identity, and orchestration infrastructure for the agent economy. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/ai-products-2026-q1 https://mana.am/en/blog/ai-products-2026-q1 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT 30+ products graded across product / tech / distribution. Two game-changers. Six top-tier. A long middle. Eight faceplants — including some of the year's biggest names. Personal opinions, not investment advice. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/cli-renaissance https://mana.am/en/blog/cli-renaissance Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT In one week, three heavyweight platforms shipped official CLIs. The reason isn't nostalgia. The CLI is the cleanest interface AI agents have ever had — and the SaaS world is quietly being rewired around that fact. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/ai-funding-2026-q1 https://mana.am/en/blog/ai-funding-2026-q1 Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT $189B raised in a single month. 83% of it went to three companies. AI swallowed 90% of global venture dollars in February. The aggregate numbers are wild — but the more interesting story is which verticals are quietly minting unicorns underneath the giants. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/ai-coding-multi-agent https://mana.am/en/blog/ai-coding-multi-agent Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two AIs arguing in adjacent terminals. When they independently agree, the team's adoption rate hits 100%. Model *diversity* is starting to beat model *capability*. Here's the toolchain making it real. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/ai-mini-games https://mana.am/en/blog/ai-mini-games Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Seven products in one corner of the AI map, all converging on the same shape — natural-language game creation plus full-screen social feed plus remix. From Spielwerk and Gizmo (now Meta-acquired) to Web3-native Remix and Roblox's AI pivot — here's the breakdown. SimonAKing https://mana.am/en/blog/ai-startup-pivot https://mana.am/en/blog/ai-startup-pivot Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT We've started over twice this year. Both times we shipped what we set out to build, and both times the platform reminded us we don't own the runtime. Here's what we learned, and what we're building now. SimonAKing