Schlep Blindness Is the Only Moat Agents Can’t Cross
Paul Graham’s schlep blindness, updated for 2026: agents made the fun half of your product free to copy, so the tedious half is the only part left worth owning.
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What Four Months of Embedded AI Engineering Ships
What a sixteen-week embedded AI engineering rotation ships, month by month, from the first merge to the handoff artifacts that let it end.
Jose Valim Is Right: Anthropic's Incentive Problem
José Valim says Anthropic hasn't separated its security case from its commercial interest. He's right, and it's every frontier lab's problem.
What a 96% Security Benchmark Actually Measures
Microsoft's security system hit 96% on a benchmark this week. Here's what that score actually measures, and how to read any vendor's benchmark claim.
What Reverse Acqui-Hires Actually Diligence
What a buyer's technical reviewer checks in a reverse acqui-hire when the code isn't the asset: key-person risk, IP scope, and contribution forensics.
What Together AI's $800M Round Says About Elixir
Together AI raised $800M at an $8.3B valuation. A since-removed job posting showed Elixir/Phoenix on the BEAM running its auth and access control.
Why We'd Pick Elixir for an AI Startup Backend
A founder-readable case for Elixir as an AI startup's backend: what the BEAM gets right for agents, streaming, and durable jobs, and when to skip it.
What Cyber Insurance Underwriters Ask AI Startups
The cyber insurance application is a security audit in disguise. What underwriters check in 2026, the AI exclusions creeping in, and when coverage is real.
Why Auto-Filled Security Questionnaires Kill AI Deals
Why auto-filling an enterprise security questionnaire backfires on an AI startup: the answers that kill deals, and the questions your SOC 2 won't cover.
Prompt Injection Defense for a 5-Person AI Startup
Prompt injection defense a five-person team can ship in a week: trust boundaries, least-privilege tools, approval gates, and what not to build yet.
Surviving Technical Due Diligence as an AI Founder
What the investor's technical reviewer opens first, the AI-specific flags that re-price rounds in 2026, and the gaps you should deliberately leave alone.
AI Made Tokens Cheap. It's Making Hardware Costly.
Apple raised prices on Mac, iPad, and HomePod, blaming an AI-driven memory shortage. The cost of intelligence is falling; the hardware to run it isn't.