Coding Agents Underestimate the Cost of Code They Own
Your coding agent just rebuilt a library you could have installed. Now every future change has to pay for that decision.
Posts tagged: land-of-assets
My Development Setup for a Modern SaaS Application
My seven-service SaaS starts in about three seconds, yet routine development uses real GCP services. The split is deliberate: application processes stay on my laptop, cloud infrastructure costs about $8 a month, and fast tests use local Postgres.
MaterialX Needs a Single-File Container
MaterialX assets are multiple loose files, which breaks down in online, and collaborative contexts. The community has already solved this with zip packaging. We just need to formalize it as .mtlz.
Launching Land of Assets
AI product imagery can lose the details that make a sofa yours. After a decade at Threekit, I built Land of Assets around a shared source of real geometry and materials for configurators and AI imagery.
Why Land of Assets Standardizes on glTF
A 3D asset can preserve every proprietary feature and still look different in another tool. That tradeoff is why Land of Assets chose glTF over USD for its Master Assets.
Why I Built Land of Assets
Managing 3D assets shouldn't feel harder than writing the application. After building enterprise 3D infrastructure, I built Land of Assets for developers whose models have outgrown Git but whose teams don't need an enterprise platform.