AI Decoded
What's actually happening in AI.
Editorial commentary on AI launches, conferences, and tools, plus what PMs, marketers, founders, and operators should do about them. No hype. No fluff. Just the moves worth making.
- Business Model
The Margin Problem: Why AI is Not SaaS
Read the decoded take - Strategy
The MVP is Dead: How AI Raised the Baseline of Software
Read the decoded take - Careers
Prompt Engineering Was Never a Job. Here's the Skill That Outlasted It
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The Death of Horizontal AI: Why Vertical Workflows Will Win
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How Enterprise AI Procurement Actually Works Now (And How to Survive It)
Read the decoded take - Tooling
RAG Isn't Dead. The Lazy Way You're Doing It Is
Read the decoded take - Agents
Agent Washing: How to Tell a Real AI Agent From a Glorified Workflow
Read the decoded take - Models
Small Models Are Eating the Frontier's Lunch (For Most Jobs)
Read the decoded take - Tooling
Evals Are the New Unit Tests (And Most Teams Are Doing Them Wrong)
Read the decoded take - Search & SEO
The Traditional SEO Funnel Is Dead. Here's What Replaced It
Read the decoded take - Strategy
Token Economics: Why AI Pricing Is Quietly Breaking Your SaaS Margins
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Apple Intelligence — The Year of the Flop
Read the decoded take - Careers
'AI Engineer' Is the New Job Category — And It's Not What People Think
Read the decoded take - Strategy
The AI-Native Startup Playbook: Six Operating Decisions That Compound
Read the decoded take - Agents
OpenAI Operator, One Year In: What Worked, What Didn't, What Should Ship Next
Read the decoded take - Models
Sora 2 vs Veo 3 vs Runway Gen 4: AI Video for Marketers, Not Researchers
Read the decoded take - Strategy
Anthropic vs OpenAI: Who's Actually Winning Enterprise in 2026
Read the decoded take - Tooling
Google Antigravity 2: Google's Real Answer to Cursor and Claude Code
Read the decoded take - Standards
MCP Is Becoming the New HTTP: What Every PM Should Know in 2026
Read the decoded take - Tooling
Why Cursor Won the AI IDE War (And What GitHub Copilot Got Wrong)
Read the decoded take - Models
Claude 4.7 vs GPT-5 for Builders: What I Actually Use Each For
Read the decoded take - Agents
The Agentic Browser Wars: Operator vs Comet vs Dia vs Arc Browse
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AI Agents Just Crossed the Adoption Tipping Point: A 2026 Field Guide
Read the decoded take - AI Launches
Google I/O 2026 Decoded: 5 AI Announcements PMs Cannot Ignore
Read the decoded take - Tooling
The 2026 PM Tool Stack: What Changed When AI Got Embedded Everywhere
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Vibe Coding is Real: How Non-Engineer PMs Are Shipping Solo in 2026
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