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Someone Else Controls Your AI's Kill Switch
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

Someone Else Controls Your AI's Kill Switch

On Friday a government switched off two frontier models for everyone. If your operation runs on a capability you don't control, you don't own a tool. You own a continuity risk.

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The Untrainable Ground: Owning the AI Benchmark
AI & Automation
· 7 min read

The Untrainable Ground: Owning the AI Benchmark

Anything on a public leaderboard gets trained against. The only AI advantage that doesn't expire is the definition of good that lives exclusively inside your company.

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The Meeting You Didn't Record Is Gone as AI Context
AI & Automation
· 6 min read

The Meeting You Didn't Record Is Gone as AI Context

David Haber at a16z: every unrecorded meeting is AI context you'll never recover. The companies recording everything are building a corpus no competitor can access.

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Your price is a loan against your customer's trust
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Your price is a loan against your customer's trust

Silvia Adlesic said it plainly: willingness to pay measures what the customer believes, not what you built. And in the AI era, belief gets corrected in 48 hours.

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Your Shorts are deposits into the AI that cites you
AI in Marketing
· 6 min read

Your Shorts are deposits into the AI that cites you

Gary Vaynerchuk says YouTube Shorts became his number one platform. Not for the views, but because every video is a deposit into the AEO battleground coming next.

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You built a Foxconn factory to babysit your AI
Software Development
· 7 min read

You built a Foxconn factory to babysit your AI

Garry Tan admitted he wrote 540,000 lines of code he didn't need. For 36 years, capability meant lines of code. That equation just inverted, and most of us missed it.

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Anthropic measured its own AI. Can you prove yours?
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Anthropic measured its own AI. Can you prove yours?

Anthropic says Claude writes most of its merged code and its engineers ship 8x more per quarter. The new line isn't who uses AI, but who can prove output.

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AI writes half your code and nothing ships faster
Software Development
· 5 min read

AI writes half your code and nothing ships faster

AI now writes nearly half the commits, but time to production hasn't moved. The bottleneck shifted downstream to tests, CI, and the delivery pipeline.

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A $1,500 cap on AI treats the symptom, not the cause
Business Strategy
· 5 min read

A $1,500 cap on AI treats the symptom, not the cause

Uber capped AI spend at $1,500 per person and one company burned $500M on Claude in a month. The cap treats the symptom. The cause is agents turned loose with no scope.

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