One week ago I announced Grazier Ventures and Aqen.ai. Since then I’ve been asked a version of the same question about a dozen times: how are you actually going…
I’ve spent 15+ years building things inside other people’s companies. This week I started building one of my own. It’s called Aqen.ai. You bring the idea. Aqen brings everything else…
A few weeks ago I shipped a phone app that lets residents measure the speed of cars on their street. The thing I learned building it wasn’t about…
Two things happened last week that look unrelated but aren’t. JPMorgan told its 65,000 engineers and technologists that AI tool usage is now part of their performance reviews.…
Everyone’s vibe coding the next todo app. The next AI wrapper. The next SaaS dashboard that solves a problem three other SaaS dashboards already solved. I vibe coded…
Silicon Valley has a new competitive sport, and it’s exactly the mistake you think it is. The New York Times reported last week that engineers at Meta, OpenAI,…
Every company I’ve talked to in the last two quarters is asking the same question about AI: what’s the ROI? The instinct is to measure AI value in cost…
Every major era of software development has produced a defining platform company. The one that quietly became the infrastructure everyone depends on. GitHub didn’t win because git was…
A few years ago, I wrote about the creeping danger of debt. Debt being the slow accumulation of manual processes, fragile deployments, and tribal knowledge that eventually drowns…
Leaders must rethink beyond adding ML models. Transition to AI-native architectures and embrace probabilistic systems for robust outcomes in this new era of software.