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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
You Can't Vibe Code Your Way to SAP
Enterprise software encodes decades of domain knowledge across every architectural layer. Vibe coding can't shortcut what took thousands of people 25 years to accumulate.
8 Apr10 min read
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AI Strategy & Building
Micro-Optimisation Is a Trap When Your Market Is Exponential
Growth teams trained in linear markets spend 70% on small experiments. In exponential markets, that allocation captures a rounding error.
6 Apr9 min read
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AI Strategy & Building
AI Multiplied Your Engineers. Your PMs Are Drowning.
AI coding tools tripled engineering output overnight. PM and design headcount stayed flat. The ratio broke, and most orgs haven't noticed yet.
3 Apr9 min read
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AI Product BuildingQuick read
The Ticket Is the New Prompt
Chat is the wrong interface for AI agents in professional software work. A well-written issue is a better agent instruction than any prompt.
1 Apr5 min read
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Industry & Markets
SaaS Isn't Dead. Hollow SaaS Is.
AI won't kill all SaaS. It will kill hollow SaaS. The distinction between workflow-embedded platforms and CRUD apps will determine who survives.
30 Mar6 min read
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AI Product Building
The Platform That Owns the Queue Will Own the Agent Layer
Everyone is asking which AI agent is best. The real question is which platform agents will work from. The answer is whoever owns the queue.
27 Mar6 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
Vibe Coding Is Real. It's Just Not What They're Selling You.
Parental leave, a newborn and a focused AI build phase. Vibe coding works, but not the way anyone's selling it.
25 Mar11 min read
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AI Strategy & BuildingDeep dive
Agentic AI Security: Why 97% Detection Is a Failing Grade
A 97% attack detection rate sounds fine until an agentic system has tool access, private data, and a path to action. Then it is a breach rate.
23 Mar10 min read
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AI Strategy & BuildingDeep dive
Build Speed Is No Longer the Bottleneck. Judgment Is.
When prototypes take hours not weeks, the bottleneck is not engineering any more. It is judgment: which option deserves trust, testing, and investment.
20 Mar10 min read
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AI Strategy & Building
AI Productivity Doesn't Free Time. It Monetises Ambition.
AI productivity does not hand ambitious builders spare time. It increases the number of bets, side projects, and decisions they can pursue each week.
18 Mar9 min read
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AI Strategy & Building
Capable Is the New Unacceptable: Zapier's AI Fluency Rubric
Zapier's V2 AI Fluency Rubric reveals a calibration problem. Most companies' target for AI adoption maps to Zapier's baseline, one step above their minimum.
16 Mar6 min read
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Industry & Markets
The Search Box Is Dead: How AI Will Eat the Property Portal
The traditional property portal is a database wrapper that shifts the cognitive load entirely onto the buyer. AI is about to collapse that model completely.
13 Mar6 min read
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