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February 14, 2026
4% of the Brain, 100% of the Performance
What happens when a frontier-level AI agent costs $1,892 a year? You stop rationing and start building.
February 8, 2026
100 Agents, Zero Engineering
What if your model could spawn its own agents? Moonshot built it. No framework needed, 4.5x faster task completion.
February 1, 2026
The 10-Minute War
OpenAI dropped GPT-5.3 Codex minutes after Anthropic's Opus 4.6. The real story isn't who won. It's how fast the ground is moving.
January 18, 2026
The Clawdbot Paradox
The most useful AI agents are the ones you have to trust the most. That's the problem nobody solved yet.
January 4, 2026
DeepSeek's Plumbing Fix for AI's Biggest Bottleneck
Manifold Hyperconnections won't make headlines. They'll make everything that follows faster and cheaper.
December 21, 2025
The Memory Tax
AI labs are buying up nearly half the world's DRAM. Your next laptop will pay the price.
December 7, 2025
SaaS Isn't Dying. It's Losing Control of the Interface.
AI agents are commoditizing the application layer. The $300B market cap loss tells you where this is headed.
November 23, 2025
OpenAI's Money Problem
OpenAI needs $174 billion in revenue by 2030. Their subscription model covers less than half. The math doesn't add up yet.
October 26, 2025
The $150K Question
AI didn't kill developer jobs. It split the profession in two. The salary follows the split.
October 21, 2025
Context Is Everything
Prompt engineering is a dead end. The real skill is architecting context so AI thinks with you, not just responds to you.
June 29, 2025
Art Thinking: The Power of Uncertainty and Vulnerability
Twenty years of innovation experience. One ESCP seminar. Three realizations about creativity that none of it prepared me for.
June 26, 2025
Step One: The beginning of something
I tell people to ship fast and iterate. Then I spent months overthinking a blog post. Starting messy beats waiting forever.