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Over the past two months, I completed something that surprised even me. I built five or six software projects that had been sitting on my “someday” list for years. These weren’t toy demos. They were real working applications. The difference wasn’t that I suddenly became ten times smarter. The difference was AI. For decades, software development had one obvious constraint: building. Ideas were…
Recently, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made headlines by saying that coding is going away first, followed eventually by software engineering. Predictably, social media exploded. Some people dismissed the statement as hype. Others declared the end of programming careers. I believe his prediction is directionally correct. Not because software is becoming less important—but because writing code is no…
Last week, a powerful AI model reportedly became unavailable almost overnight after regulatory pressure and platform decisions collided. Whether that specific incident becomes historically important is beside the point. The real lesson is this: Most companies are building critical workflows on intelligence they do not own. And that should make every business leader uncomfortable. For the past two…
Over the past year, I have been thinking about a question that many founders and product builders are asking: If AI can generate code, create designs, write tests, and accelerate development, what remains as a competitive advantage? Historically, software companies enjoyed significant moats because building products was difficult. Development teams were expensive, timelines were long, and…
Why AI Business Strategies Have Expiration Dates Every Advantage Has an Expiration Date There’s a graveyard no one talks about. It’s filled with strategies that were once brilliant tactics that made people rich, businesses famous, and marketers look like geniuses. Cold email campaigns that got 60% open rates. SEO hacks that could push a mediocre page to the top of Google overnight. Paid ad…
Confidence looks like competence. A strong tone, a clear conclusion, a bold opinion delivered without hesitation, these are the signals we’ve been trained to associate with expertise. We reward certainty in meetings. We follow people who sound sure. We trust the voice that doesn’t waver. But in complex systems business, markets, strategy, and AI, that same certainty can be the most dangerous thing…
Every strategy exists because people believe they know their operational environment. Our understanding of the system remains incomplete. When leaders enter a space, they bring their proven approach, which consists of established methods and their research findings. The research process includes both data analysis and expert opinions, which they used to develop their strategic plan. Yet despite…
The concept creates extreme discomfort, yet people who understand it will keep perceiving its existence. A system that costs millions of dollars and took years to develop, requires hundreds of employees, and supports itself with legal experts and lobbyists, can face destruction through something that exists at a much smaller scale. The system contains no defects because that operation functions in…
The situation involves a military aircraft that suffers a combat loss. The online community divides into two opposing groups within the first few minutes. One group asserts that the entire system has collapsed. The second group maintains that nothing important took place. Both groups make the same mistake because their shared understanding is incorrect. They constructed an entire belief system…
When Claude Sonnet 4.6 was released, the Hacker News thread quickly filled with hundreds of comments. That alone tells you something. We’ve reached a point where model releases are no longer technical footnotes — they are economic events. But reading through the discussion, what stood out wasn’t just excitement about features. It was a deep, almost philosophical debate about work, value, and human…