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MS Blurred: Microsoft’s AI Path Gets Slippery
Is AI replacing programmers or not? Should coders learn to write poems? What’s really going on?
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The Funnel of the Future is Upside Down
With AI, the SaaS funnel can start with custom product delivery—and then you sell the relationship.
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Is “Specification Repair” the AI Endgame?
Let’s stop trying to make computers human and get back to making them awesome.
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You Can’t Build on Vibrations Alone
The three critical ingredients of design that are missing from vibe coding.
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Using AI to Redirect Yourself—and Save Money!
Better behavior, on demand.
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The Prophets and the Giants
Reading between the lines of the AI industry in 2025.
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The Spiders Versus the Web
AI’s relationship to the web is complicated—but I’m placing a bet on who will win.
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The More Things Change
In tech, the money is in innovation, but the careers are in predictability.
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Bad Vibes Coding
You have to choose which steps to skip, and when to slow down.
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The Zeno Effect
These good ideas will seem trivial to accomplish using AI—and then you’ll be living through the back half of Goodfellas.
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