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№ 058 Jul 2026

DeepSeek Did Not Make Local AI Inevitable

Open weights made cheaper AI possible. They did not make hybrid AI easy. The missing product is the routing and operations layer that lets an ordinary enterprise use more than one model safely.

Local AIOpen ModelsModel RoutingAI Economics
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№ 057 Jul 2026

One User Can Spend Your AI Budget

The moment one employee can consume half a team's AI allocation in a day, AI stops being a productivity subscription and becomes infrastructure that needs governance.

AI GovernanceToken CostsDeveloper ToolsAI Adoption
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№ 056 Jul 2026

What AI Companies Can Learn From the Auto Industry

Frontier labs do not need one model for every job. They need a product ladder that gives customers Toyota economics, Porsche capability, and Koenigsegg performance when the work earns it.

AI EconomicsModel ProvidersToken CostsModel Routing
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№ 055 Jul 2026

The Prediction Is Already Becoming Testable

Eighteen days after I predicted Anthropic would be the first major frontier-model provider to fail, the mechanism behind that prediction has started to become testable.

ComputeModel ProvidersAI Market
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№ 046 Jun 2026

The Mainframe Era of AI Is Ending

AI began in centralized data centers, but hardware, local models, and enterprise sovereignty are starting to move inference closer to the user.

Local AIAI HardwareModel RoutingCloud AI
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№ 043 Jun 2026

Anthropic Will Be the First Major AI Company to Fail

Anthropic leads the business AI coding market. I predict that its lack of control over compute will also make it the first frontier-model provider to fall.

ComputeModel ProvidersAI Market
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№ 033 May 2026

The Harness Wars Have Started. We've Seen This Before.

Claude has already won. Copilot is dead in the water. Cursor is Elon's fantasy play. Every one of those takes is pontification dressed in the robes of an oracle.

HarnessesModel SwitchingInteroperability
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№ 013 Apr 2026

All Your (Code)Bases Belong to Us

AI companies are scraping public repos and shipping community innovations as features. If your code enhances an agentic platform, think twice before going public.

Open SourceAI PlatformsRisk
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