March 3, 2026
The Gap Was the Product
Agent frameworks filled the space between good-enough models and missing infrastructure. Now the labs are building down and automation platforms are building up.
3 min readAI and SoftwareDeveloper Tools
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A dedicated publishing area for weekly AI signal: commentary, public opinions, and practical analysis for professionals making decisions.
March 3, 2026
The Screenwriter's Fallacy
AI became a power story, not a technology story. Framing it as Act Two implies an Act Three. There is no evidence that's coming.
3 min readMarket NarrativesAI Hype
March 3, 2026
The Secret Is That You Already Knew
A viral guide to agentic engineering buries useful advice on context management inside an ascension narrative that contradicts its own thesis.
3 min readAI and SoftwareDeveloper Tools
March 3, 2026
Twenty Hours of Not Asking the Hard Questions
A weekend guide to Perplexity Computer tests every prompt and none of the failure modes. The most useful thing a tool review can tell you is where it breaks.
2 min readAI HypeAI Adoption
March 2, 2026
The Judgment Is Yours
A transactional lawyer built his entire practice around Claude. The real insight isn't about prompting — it's that judgment is the asset AI makes more valuable.
3 min readAI AdoptionAI Strategy
February 26, 2026
Fifty MVPs and Counting
A tooling checklist for shipping MVPs fast, written by someone who optimises for handoff speed. Useful advice — just remember you're the one living with the choices.
3 min readAI and SoftwareIndie Hackers
February 26, 2026
The Conductor Who Doesn't Build Instruments
Perplexity's CEO argues multimodel orchestration is where the value lives. It's a sharp thesis — and exactly the argument you'd make if you don't build the models.
2 min readCompetitionMarket Narratives
February 26, 2026
The Delegation Is the Hard Part
Karpathy says the era of typing code is over. His own example proves the era of knowing what to type never ended — the skill just moved up the stack.
2 min readAI and SoftwareDeveloper Tools
February 26, 2026
The Edits Are the Disclosure
A hedge fund co-authored a report that preceded an 821-point Dow drop. Then the attribution was quietly changed. The regulatory gap that made it possible is by design.
2 min readMarket NarrativesAI Ethics
February 26, 2026
The Gap That Didn't Close
Starting a project with AI is easier than ever. Shipping a real product still isn't. The gap between demo and done is where the flattery falls apart.
3 min readAI and SoftwareIndie Hackers
February 26, 2026
The Hard Part Was Never the Instructions
A clean Coasean framework for AI and firms — until it declares the instruction layer solved and skips the part where physical work, accountability, and trust resist compression.
2 min readAI and EconomyAI Strategy
February 26, 2026
The Judgment Was Always the Job
AI doesn't threaten engineering seniority because seniority was never about typing code. The question is whether organisations still produce the friction that builds judgment.
2 min readAI and SoftwareAI Adoption
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