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Shadow AI Is the Strategy
Your employees are already telling you where AI creates value.
Recent essays
Recent writing on AI, engineering, and leadership.
All essays →- The 1% Error That Ruins Everything Why AI agents are mathematically doomed - and what to build instead
- Believe the Checkbook AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.
- The Most Expensive Wall in Software What happens when you stop protecting engineers from customers?
- The Breaker Box Economy Why AI's future belongs to whoever controls the compute grid
- The Internet's Forgotten Superpower How modern web apps forgot to remember
- The Experience Upload Surface mastery downloads in seconds. Judgment still takes years.
- The Three Infinity Stones That Can Erase Your Company How Reddit mods, Google rankings, and AI models form a reputation kill chain you don't control
- The Server in the Closet The case for owning your stack
- Tools Create Capacity, Workflows Create Value The physics of organizational change that everyone ignores.
- The Age of Citation AI engines don’t care about rank - they care about corroboration. If you’re not in the synthesis, you’re invisible.
- Win the Default, Win the Decade The products that shape behavior aren’t the loudest... they’re the ones already chosen.