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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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AI Strategy & Building
I Don't Deal in Hype: Why AI Product Builders Must Ship
AI product people who have not felt latency or wrestled with hallucinations first-hand build strategies on fantasy. The case for hands-on builder identity.
11 Mar6 min read
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AI Strategy & BuildingDeep 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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Industry & MarketsDeep dive
Two Production SaaS Platforms, One Full-Stack AI Build Phase
50+ AI features, 6 LLMs, native mobile, Stripe billing. Two vertical SaaS platforms built end-to-end to prove how AI changes product delivery.
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 & BuildingDeep 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 & Building
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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