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Industry & MarketsDeep dive
Two Production SaaS Platforms, One Builder: Solo Vertical SaaS
50+ AI features, 6 LLMs, native mobile, Stripe billing. Two vertical SaaS platforms built solo to prove the one-person product company model transfers.
4 Mar10 min read
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AI Product Building
Tests Pass. Does It Think?
When AI writes the code, green CI isn't enough. The new discipline is understanding and defending the choices the model made — not just the ones you made.
2 Mar8 min read
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AI Product BuildingQuick read
Conversational Search Is a Lazy UX Paradigm for Proptech
Zillow, Redfin, and Homes.com have all bolted conversational UI onto their portals. It's an impressive technical feat that completely misunderstands how people want to buy houses.
27 Feb5 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
The E-Shaped Product Leader: Stacking Skills Beats Silos
AI collapses the cost of cross-domain competence. The career advantage belongs to people who stack skills, not the ones who go deeper in a single silo.
25 Feb11 min read
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AI Product Building
Fred Brooks Is Dead. Rewrite the Damn Thing.
The 'never rewrite' doctrine was based on rewrite cost. AI has collapsed that cost to days. Pre-launch rewrites are now a product strategy, not a failure.
23 Feb7 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
The AI Pricing Stack: Usage, Outcome, and Hybrid Models
Per-seat pricing is dying but the replacement is not simple. A practical framework for AI pricing that covers usage-based, outcome-based, and hybrid models.
20 Feb13 min read
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AI Strategy & Leadership
Constraint Is the AI Adoption Strategy Your Org Won't Try
Unlimited headcount kills AI adoption. One engineer per project, unlimited tokens, and the constraint to figure it out produces the best AI-native work.
18 Feb9 min read
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AI Product Building
AI Makes Overbuilding the Default. Discipline Is the Antidote.
Going from zero to end in hours sounds like progress. It's also how you ship a product nobody can navigate. The real skill is knowing when to stop.
16 Feb7 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
AI Governance Without Bureaucracy: A Framework That Ships
Most AI governance is either theatre or a bottleneck. A risk-tiered framework built from shipping AI features to AFSL-regulated Tier 1 banks in production.
13 Feb11 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
AI Didn't Kill Coding. It Killed Typing.
AI coding is the sixth abstraction layer in 80 years. Every previous layer was dismissed as not real programming by the practitioners of the one below.
11 Feb10 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
How to Measure an AI Product (When Traditional Metrics Lie)
DAU, time-in-app, and NPS were built for a world where humans do the work. AI products need different metrics. A framework for what to measure and why.
9 Feb10 min read
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AI Product Building
The Bitter Lesson Kills Your Orchestration Layer
Scaffolding gives you 10-20% gains that the next model wipes out. The bitter lesson for product builders: give the model tools and a goal, not a workflow.
6 Feb8 min read
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