Topic AI
AI
Notes on AI as it actually lands in products and companies. Less about models, more about what the collapse in building cost does to judgment, moats, and work.
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The interesting questions about AI aren’t about the models. They’re about what happens to everything downstream when the cost of building approaches zero: where the new bottlenecks form, what becomes scarce, and which kinds of judgment get more valuable rather than less.
01 Essays
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- ES-003 The Product Is Becoming the Easy Part AI made building cheap. That doesn't make ideas less valuable. It makes unfinished ones less valuable.
- ES-002 The Wrapper Has a Shelf Life A $29 subscription used to feel like a fair trade. Once a customer can rebuild it with a prompt, it starts to feel like a tax.
- ES-001 Building Was Never the Whole Job A year before Mailchimp acquired LemonStand, they were already watching us work. Not in a boardroom. In Slack.
- NO SIGNAL: no reports match that filter.
02 Notes
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- 2026.06.12 AI didn't make ideas less valuable. It made unfinished ideas less valuable. NT-004 Product JudgmentAI
- 2026.05.30 The scarce skill now is the discipline not to build the wrong thing. NT-003 Product JudgmentAI
- 2026.05.22 Once your software is one prompt away, the subscription becomes a tax. NT-002 AICommerce