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Adoption is not transformation: the post-McKinsey model
Business Strategy
· 10 min read

Adoption is not transformation: the post-McKinsey model

Raphaël Dabadie named the new model: software plus service. Traditional consulting runs sampling. AI transformation needs agents that map everything.

McKinsey Raphaël Dabadie AI Maestro
Code is not cheap: AI productivity is a codebase property
Software Development
· 12 min read

Code is not cheap: AI productivity is a codebase property

Anthropic writes 100% of its code with AI and Google reacted. Pocock and Huryn explain why: AI productivity is a codebase property, not a model property.

Anthropic Claude Code Matt Pocock
The One-Shot Mirage: Three Voices, One Warning
Business Strategy
· 13 min read

The One-Shot Mirage: Three Voices, One Warning

Chamath, Yongfook, Berder converged in 24 hours: AI one-shot does not build a business. Edge cases, retention, trust, distribution do not fit in a prompt.

vibe coding AI one-shot Chamath Palihapitiya
Experience isn't a tax when the cycle repeats
Business Strategy
· 11 min read

Experience isn't a tax when the cycle repeats

Jaya Gupta argues experience is now a tax. Half right. Memory is. Pattern recognition across cycles is the actual moat, and the data confirms it.

executive experience pattern recognition AI adoption
The flat-rate AI era ended this week
Business Strategy
· 9 min read

The flat-rate AI era ended this week

GitHub paused Copilot Pro. Anthropic pulled Claude Code from the $20 plan. xAI parked Grok 4.3 behind a $300 tier. Three vendors, one week, same wall.

AI pricing GitHub Copilot Anthropic Claude Code
Deloitte Just Ran Its Own AI Workforce Playbook on Itself
Business Strategy
· 8 min read

Deloitte Just Ran Its Own AI Workforce Playbook on Itself

Deloitte cut parental leave, PTO and pensions for its Center tier only. Its Workforce Analyzer product sells that same analysis to Fortune 500 clients.

Deloitte Workforce Analyzer AI workforce
OpenAI doubled prices while Nvidia cut inference 35x
Business Strategy
· 14 min read

OpenAI doubled prices while Nvidia cut inference 35x

GPT-5 launched at $1.25 per million input tokens. GPT-5.5 costs $5.00 today. 4x cumulative in 8 months while Blackwell Ultra cut inference 35x.

OpenAI GPT-5.5 pricing power
The runtime is a commodity now. The moat is the workflow.
Business Strategy
· 8 min read

The runtime is a commodity now. The moat is the workflow.

Anthropic prices agent runtime at $0.08/hour and wipes out a cohort of infra startups. McKinsey: 80% of firms still see no AI impact on earnings.

Anthropic Managed Agents McKinsey
Meta records employees to train their replacements
Business Strategy
· 13 min read

Meta records employees to train their replacements

On April 21 Meta installed MCI to record US employees' mouse and keyboard. On May 20 it plans to cut 8,000 jobs. That capture clause is coming to SaaS.

Meta workplace surveillance Model Capability Initiative

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