https://www.hatch.org/tags/2025/ Recent content in 2025 on Steve Hatch's Blog Hugo en-us Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:10:07 +0000 https://www.hatch.org/2025/12/25/2025_ai_year_in_review_were_back_at_the_geocities_moment/ Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:10:07 +0000 https://www.hatch.org/2025/12/25/2025_ai_year_in_review_were_back_at_the_geocities_moment/ <p><img src="https://www.hatch.org/images/2025_ai_year_in_review_were_back_at_the_geocities_moment.jpg" alt="Death of SaaS: Why Autonomous AI Services Are Quietly Replacing Software Giants"></p> <p>If 2025 felt like the year AI almost became magic and then immediately turned into plumbing, congratulations. You were paying attention.</p> <p>For a brief and unhinged stretch, models felt AGI-adjacent. Demos were jaw-dropping. Twitter became unreadable. Every startup pitch sounded like a spiritual awakening with a deck. And then something deeply inconvenient happened.</p> <p>Reality arrived. With a clipboard.</p>