Month: October 2026

By June 2026, I couldn’t open an app without being told I was falling behind. My Instagram saves were full of designers building agents over a weekend. LinkedIn was a steady stream of people who had “shipped it with Cursor.” And the job listings I was tailoring my resume to kept asking for things like …

Somewhere in this room is the one person who can tell if any of it is actually good. AI made everyone else look exactly like them. AI lets a solo founder produce a product, but it can’t help them understand whether that product is actually good…yet. That expertise, the hard-won judgment underneath it, has always been …

The switchboard operator’s job was automated out of existence. The work it became, the invisible systems that now connect every call, is worth more than the job ever was. AI is about to do the same thing to the app. The people buying AI are blunt about the fact that the future is intelligence that disappears …

A practical model for deciding what AI can do, what humans must still own, and where product teams should draw the boundary. Image created by the author with OpenAI image generation. An AI tool clusters hundreds of customer comments and names the largest theme “pricing friction”. The label sounds plausible, so the team asks it …