AI Strategy
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One server, every device, yours
Whelk is out. One server on hardware you own, a native client on every device you carry, and a room full of…
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The Depreciating Asset
Models Are the Depreciating Asset. The Interface Is the Moat. In 2023, the thing you needed a frontier cloud model to do…
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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.…
AI & Implementation · 4 min -
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…
AI & Implementation · 3 min -
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…
Building in Public · 4 min -
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…
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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.…
Building in Public · 4 min -
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…
Building in Public · 6 min -
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…
Engineering Leadership · 7 min -
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…
Building in Public · 6 min