What AI-Native Looks Like

Programming Software Engineering Reading Technology Here’s What AI-Native Looks Like How I use AI with 20 years of engineering experience Fayner Brack 9 min read · 3 days ago --

Upward trajectory built on stable deployment pipelines and testing Want to come back later? Save this to readplace.com .

I remember the first software I developed in an actual company. It was circa 2006 when I implemented my website for my first client. It used iframes and crazy colors. When I showed the prototype to the client they unexpectedly said they had “given up” on building a website.

Almost half a million karma on Reddit and thousands of submissions on HackerNews later, I decided to create a SaaS for my hand-made 10 year-old read-later system so everyone could use it too. I called it readplace.com.

Here are the first commits: https://github.com/Readplace/readplace.com/commits/main/?since=2026-02-28&until=2026-02-28