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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.
Made redundant with a newborn. Built a production SaaS in 10 weeks anyway. Vibe coding works, but not the way anyone's selling it.
25 Mar11 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep 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 & LeadershipDeep 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 & Leadership
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 & Leadership
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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AI Strategy & Leadership
I Don't Deal in Hype: Why AI Product Leaders Must Also Build
Product leaders who have not felt latency or wrestled with hallucinations first-hand build AI strategies on fantasy. The case for builder-leader identity.
11 Mar6 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
94% Capable. 33% Deployed. The Gap That Explains Everything.
Anthropic research reveals a 61-point gap between AI capability and actual deployment. That gap explains why the workforce apocalypse has not arrived yet.
9 Mar13 min read
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AI Product Building
Your AI Budget Line Is Wrong. Tokens Are the New Headcount.
Engineering teams spend more on AI tokens than junior salaries. The cost structure of building software has inverted and most finance teams missed it.
6 Mar7 min read
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