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When the bubble pops, what do you actually own?
What a bursting AI bubble would do to your company, and what survives it. By Kristian Kabashi The tide always goes out. What it leaves behind is the whole game. Here is the deal th…
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Nobody Has a Number
A field guide to what your AI budget actually buys, and how to make the meter answer to you. By Kristian Kabashi Nobody has a number. Fifty million dollars, and nobody has a number…
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AI Grew a Mind’s Workspace on Its Own. The Chair Is Still Empty.
“The machine grew a mind. The chair is still empty,” by Kristian Kabashi. Give a machine a test built to make it misbehave, then read what it thinks before it speaks. Anthropic ran…
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Stop Prompting. Start Looping.
Prompt engineering was last year’s skill. The people getting the most out of AI now barely prompt. They build loops. Here is the whole idea, from beginner to pro, and how to run yo…
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Human Capital, Meet Token Capital
Every company is about to be in the business of building two kinds of capital. The surprising part is that the cheaper machine intelligence gets, the more your people are worth, no…
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SpaceX Didn’t Buy a Code Editor
It paid $60 billion for the front door to an AI-first ecosystem, the kind that could one day rival Apple, and maybe end with a phone that has no apps at all. By Kristian Kabashi Sp…
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If I Were Starting Over, I’d Learn These Three Jobs
Product owner, UX designer, project manager. Fold them into one person and you get the role AI cannot do, because it is the role that runs the AI. By Kristian Kabashi If I were sta…
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Stop Renting Your Company’s Brain
The strongest open models now run on a box that fits on your desk, and they are nearly as good as the giants. The contrarian move in 2026 is to own the workhorse and rent the geniu…
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