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September 2, 2026 · 8 min read

How AI Companies Get Valued, and Acquired Without Being Acquired

Frontier labs are raising at twenty to thirty times revenue while Big Tech buys startup teams without buying the companies. A look at what those numbers and deal structures are actually signaling.

August 18, 2026 · 8 min read

I'm a VP of Engineering. Why Am I Still Writing Code?

Senior engineering leaders get asked this a lot. Here's why staying technically close matters, and the trap of turning that into being the team's principal engineer.

August 17, 2026 · 6 min read

Building Efficient AI Pods and Workstreams

How we structure small, focused AI pods and their workstreams to ship agentic systems without turning every team into an AI team.

August 17, 2026 · 7 min read

AI Assisted Development Without a Process Just Moves the Bottleneck

AI coding assistants make writing software faster, but without a process the bottleneck just relocates, first to testing, then to deployment. AI centered orchestration is what actually smooths the pipeline.