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Tag: AI Strategy
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I Gave My Agents a Memory That Can’t Leak
I run Claude Code and Pi across everything I build. They’re good, but they also forget everything the moment a session ends. Every project decision, every dead end…
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The Org Chart Is the Product
For most of my career I believed I was building products but looking back, I was mostly building org charts. Every real scaling problem I hit — Weedmaps…
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Radical Uncertainty Is the Job
Most advice about building a company is the answer to a puzzle. The hardest parts were never puzzles. In 1921, the economist Frank Knight drew a line that…
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The Marginal Return of Intelligence (And the Marginal Return to It)
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…
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The Builder’s Bet
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…
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I Trained a Small Language Model on My City’s Government Documents
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…
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The Org Chart Is Flattening & Nobody Has a Replacement
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.…
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I Vibe Coded a Civic Tool
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…
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“Tokenmaxxing” Is Lines-of-Code Thinking for the Agentic Era
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,…
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Minutes Added To Workforce
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…