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AI is collapsing the cost of building software by two orders of magnitude — a quarter of YC startups now have 95% of their code written by AI, and some are hitting $10M in revenue with fewer than 10 people. The binding constraint has shifted upstream to energy: data centers are on track to consume 10% of US electricity by 2028, while Germany's nuclear phase-out stands as a live case study in what happens when policy treats reversible decisions as permanent. The next wave of competition is moving to AI memory architecture, with open-source projects racing to give agents persistent context across sessions.

AI Is In Its Gentleman Science Era
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AI Is In Its Gentleman Science Era

February 15, 2026 · 4 min read

AI research is wide open for builders with heretical ideas. The window won't last forever.

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AI Didn’t Kill Creativity. It Killed Your Excuses.
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AI Didn’t Kill Creativity. It Killed Your Excuses.

February 14, 2026 · 4 min read

The moment you can tell your work sucks is the moment most people quit. AI just makes it harder to hide there.

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SF Is Winning the AI Race. Politicians Want to Kill It.
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SF Is Winning the AI Race. Politicians Want to Kill It.

February 13, 2026 · 4 min read

San Francisco is the only tech hub in America with growing startup formation—and city hall is doing everything it can to drive companies out.

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Startup Exits Double Every Five Years
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Startup Exits Double Every Five Years

February 11, 2026 · 2 min read

Hard data proves the abundance machine is accelerating—while pessimists run scarcity scripts from an obsolete world.

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Boil the Ocean
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Boil the Ocean

February 07, 2026 · 4 min read

Artificial Superintelligence means it is time to stop playing it safe and raise our ambitions

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We Used to Build Things. What Happened?
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We Used to Build Things. What Happened?

February 04, 2026 · 8 min read

From the Panama Canal to parklet regulations—why it’s time for Americans to reclaim technology, growth, and the abundance that once defined it.

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