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Writing on building, validating, and shipping products.
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· 3 min read
What is a Product Builder?
The title 'product builder' is everywhere. But if the building is the easy part now, the word names the wrong half. The judgment is the part that counts.
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· 4 min read
People Decide What, Agents Decide How
Anthropic studied 400,000 Claude Code sessions: people decide what, agents decide how. Domain expertise, not coding skill, predicts who succeeds.
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· 5 min read
When something gets cheap, there's a lot of value right next to it
Compression Theory: when technology makes a layer cheap, the value moves to the layer next to it. Where you still matter in the age of AI.
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· 6 min read
Token prices held flat in 2026. The bills climbed anyway.
AI token rates held flat in 2026, but agentic workloads blew past budgets. Why the bill climbed, and the architecture call that matters more than the rate card.