February 14, 2026
The Last Scarcity
When AI removes all friction, what atrophies isn't access or employment — it's desire itself. Commentary on @fede_intern's essay on post-scarcity psychology.
Commentary3 min readAI EthicsPost-Scarcity
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February 14, 2026
The Real Threat to SaaS
Michael Bloch argues that AI doesn't kill software demand — it demolishes the supply-side moat. When building is cheap, the barrier was never the product. It was the construction delay.
Commentary3 min readSaaSAI and Software
February 14, 2026
The Signal Inside the Hype: What SWE-rebench Actually Proves (and What It Doesn't)
David Ondrej's viral post about SWE-rebench gets the headline right and most of the nuance wrong. Here's what the benchmark data actually shows.
Commentary7 min readAI BenchmarksSWE-bench
February 14, 2026
Token Anxiety
A San Francisco founder describes restructuring his life around AI agents. This commentary separates productive AI fluency from compulsive output anxiety.
Commentary3 min readAI CultureProductivity
February 13, 2026
The Equal and Opposite Hype
Sandeep's viral post calling AI hype a coordinated psy-op makes real points about commercial incentives — then undermines them with the same all-caps certainty it criticises. Counter-hype is still hype.
Commentary6 min readAI HypeCritical Analysis
February 13, 2026
The Singularity Is Having Babies, Apparently
Alex Wissner-Gross's AI digest arranges real facts at maximum extrapolation. The actual news this week is more interesting and more useful than the Singularity version.
Commentary7 min readAI NarrativesAI Hype
February 12, 2026
Something Is Happening
Viral AI narratives are getting a lot right about the pace of capability improvement, but they get a lot wrong about the pace of economic disruption. A measured look at what the viral panic gets right and wrong.
Commentary8 min readAI NarrativesAdoption Friction
February 12, 2026
The Alarm and the Affirmation
Two viral AI career posts went around this week — one sounding the alarm, one offering hope. Both are worth reading. Neither gives you what you actually need: a framework for your specific situation.
Opinion6 min readAI CareersAI Narratives
February 11, 2026
If AI Writes Code 3x Faster, Why Aren't We Shipping 3x Faster?
AI made code generation cheap, but planning, review, and coordination still set delivery speed. This commentary shows where the bottleneck moved and why teams should optimize for faster real feedback, not just faster output.
Commentary6 min readAI DeliveryBottlenecks
February 11, 2026
The AI Takeoff Article Everyone Is Sharing
Most professionals are behind on recent AI capability gains, and that gap matters. This piece critiques alarm-first takeoff storytelling and explains why useful communication should build competence, not anxiety.
Commentary7 min readAI CommunicationAI Takeoff
February 11, 2026
The Atoms Were Never Obsolete
AI is reducing software scarcity and redirecting value toward infrastructure, energy, and other hard constraints. This commentary supports that core shift while challenging cleaner bits-to-atoms narratives and timeline certainty.
Commentary8 min readAI EconomicsInfrastructure
February 11, 2026
The Exponential Horizon
AI progress is real, but that does not make every singularity-era valuation thesis rational. This commentary dissects unfalsifiable market claims and shows why technology truth and asset-pricing discipline are separate decisions.
Commentary4 min readAI HypeMarkets
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