22 Apr 2026, 14:51 UTC182 viewsread 8 August 2026
This started as a tweet but thought it needed a little longer rumination. https://om.co/2026/04/22/software-eats-its-own/
Channel
PresentFuture by Om
@omsays
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
376subscribers
-6 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001233150477 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @omsays |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 17 August 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 9 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 9 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/omsays |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Aug 2026, 20:25 | 376 | -3 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 06:02 | 379 | -1 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 18:55 | 380 | -2 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 06:05 | 382 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 22:49 | 382 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 17 August 2021 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 22 April 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
15 Apr 2026, 19:17 UTC290 viewsread 8 August 2026
Nothing gets my goat than Allbirds. and this NewBird con got me to write about it. https://om.co/2026/04/15/newbirds-ai-is-really-loonybirds-ai/
1 Apr 2026, 01:55 UTC408 viewsread 8 August 2026
OpenAI raises money like you and I go to the ATM. https://om.co/2026/03/31/openai-the-fix-is-in/
10 Mar 2026, 22:10 UTC442 viewsread 8 August 2026
The launch of MacBook Neo has me feeling a little philosophical. About Heidegger. About missing Steve Jobs. About Aristotle and the sheer joy of colors. In the end, this is my essay about the essence of a machine. https://om.co/2026/03/10/the-essence-of-a-machine/
10 Mar 2026, 03:51 UTC331 viewsread 8 August 2026
Masayoshi Son, the great gambler, is betting it all on OpenAI. Caught up in the frenzy or creating it? Either way, we are in an unprecedented data center frenzy. It is one crazy time, when announcements are the new currency. Velocity is the new game. New post. https://om.co/2026/03/09/the-debt-beneath-the-dream/
5 Mar 2026, 15:50 UTC345 viewsread 8 August 2026
The new post. I think headlines often tell only sliver of the story. https://om.co/2026/03/05/the-great-ai-game-vs-ai-theater/
27 Feb 2026, 18:25 UTC358 viewsread 8 August 2026
The underlying story of OpenAI's jaw-dropping $110 billion raise is really about Amazon, and how as a "cloud leader" it slipped when it came to AI, and recognizing the opportunity early compared to Azure. Now it’s costing the company billions. https://om.co/2026/02/27/amazon-the-cost-of-ai-lateness/
3 Feb 2026, 16:20 UTC341 viewsread 8 August 2026
The whole brouhaha around Nvidia having second thoughts about pumping $100 billion into its biggest customer was a good reminder that we now live in a brave new world of "announcement economy," and it feeds the new information god— velocity. New essay, https://om.co/2026/02/02/openai-and-the-announcement-economy/
19 May 2025, 03:13 UTC538 viewsread 8 August 2026
How do you design a life? I started thinking about it, and ended up finding a correlation between photography, and other choices we make. om.co/2025/05/18/d...
13 Aug 2024, 16:41 UTC768 viewsread 8 August 2026
I've seen this movie before. Venture capitalists chase the shiny new thing, anoint unicorns prematurely, and overfund a sector hoping to back the next epoch-making winners. Most startups won't make it, but those few that do will be era-defining. Astronomical valuations on unproven business models. An oversupply of unicorns kept private too long. A backlog of paper gains desperately seeking liquidity. Late stage inve…
15 May 2024, 14:55 UTC656 viewsread 8 August 2026
The Age of AI Ambiguity With tech giants unleashing ever more powerful models and piles of money to accelerate their AI efforts, startups find themselves in a precarious position. Startups must hustle to find and defend their AI niches as the landscape rapidly evolves. Startups' advantage is agility and singular focus. They can build superior solutions in specific verticals and use cases. A good lesson from the pas…
13 Mar 2024, 16:02 UTC605 viewsread 8 August 2026
Hugo Barra, who was the Head of Oculus from 2017 to 2020 & lifelong VR enthusiast, makes the argument in his essay about the Vision Pro and how it compares with Meta’s Quest devices, & other headsets that are available on the market. Highly recommended. https://buff.ly/3IDDHMp
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @omsays. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 30 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“PresentFuture by Om” (@omsays), 376 subscribers as measured 30 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/omsays.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.