Writing
Thoughts on startups, AI, and building things.
No one needs us anymore
Oct 2026For two thousand years we dreamed of machines doing the work so we could be free. We got the machines. What we didn't plan for is that being needed was where most of our purpose came from.
Reinventing the wheel is cheap now
Oct 2026"Don't reinvent the wheel" was good advice when writing code was the expensive part. Coding agents made small wheels almost free to build, and the cost of every dependency you pull in hasn't moved.
When agents swarm, nobody is too boring to attack
Sep 2026Swarms of AI agents have turned a country's strategic companies, grids and banks and airports and insurers, into one continuous attack surface, worked by criminals chasing ransoms and by foreign states running hybrid war. The evidence is already public, in government advisories and court filings.
Product and engineering are worth almost nothing
Jul 2026Building used to be the hard part. AI made it the easy part. What's left, and what actually decides who wins, is distribution.
There's a hidden game on this site
Jul 2026I shipped a small Asteroids-style easter egg on gabrieleventuri.eu. Here's how to find it.
Introducing PandasAI
May 2023An open-source library that lets you ask a pandas dataframe questions in plain English. I built it because I was tired of writing the same ten lines of code, and because I think it's how most people will talk to data.
Introducing ChatPic
Feb 2023A photo editor you talk to instead of fight with: describe the edit, ChatPic makes it, and you can still see and change every step.
Welcome to my blog
Feb 2023Who I am, what I've built (and killed), and why I'm starting to write now, three months after ChatGPT.