006 entries
001 2026.10.21
October 21, 2026
Routing AI requests across model providers is the same problem payments solved with least-cost routing. Why Stripe's pending OpenRouter deal reads like a payments company buying a router, and where the analogy breaks.
002 2026.10.14
October 14, 2026
Agentic workflows made producing artifacts close to free, but the bottleneck moved to conversations with people who might pay. Inventory reads as progress while the constrained side of the system never sped up.
003 2026.08.26
August 26, 2026
AI is shrinking docs views, GitHub stars, and event attendance. Measure AI citation rate, agent activation, and whether your community trusts what it is told.
004 2026.07.13
July 13, 2026
A founder with a day job and family builds LeadSurface via a Loop & Gate workflow, keeping product strategy human, handing disciplined execution to a pipeline.
005 2026.07.09
July 9, 2026
Durable AI workflows are found through iterative rebuilding, not upfront design. The framework emergence loop turns each failure into the next version's lesson.
006 2026.06.18
June 18, 2026
A broken agentic workflow fails loudly. The wrong one runs cleanly and quietly drifts. How to define correctness and evaluate against it before you ship.
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