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A documented conversation with a startup CEO — going deep on go-to-market, the SEO engine I built at a developer platform, my own startup and why it closed, dropping out, risk-taking, and how AI is reshaping GTM and entry-level work.
Notes from a walk with Cursor's Ian Huang in San Francisco: coding agents, product validation and startups, then personal brand, education, philosophy, and how to build the life you actually want.
Paying for Linear or Jira might be one of the worst investments a company makes. A first-principles look at why PM tools exist, and what replaces them once AI can render the interface.
Ramp built Inspect, Stripe built Minions, Block built goose. Cursor and Claude Code exist and are excellent — so why are these companies rolling their own? The answer is context, integration, and ownership, and it says something about where the moat in AI engineering actually sits.
Notes from an interview with Perplexity's Dmitry Shevelenko — why every knowledge worker is becoming an executive, what Perplexity learned watching CEOs out-adopt their own employees, and why agentic checkout is overhyped.
Notes from the Crossroads podcast on Forward-Deployed Engineers (FDEs), why most enterprise AI projects fail, and the shift from selling slide decks to shipping working agents.
Anthropic says 80% of its own code is now written by Claude. I read their recursive self-improvement essay, checked the numbers, and separated what they actually claimed from the doom-spin around it.