The Marginal Hire
AI's impact on employment won't appear as mass layoffs. Instead, companies will simply stop hiring the marginal employee they planned to bring on.
AI's impact on employment won't appear as mass layoffs. Instead, companies will simply stop hiring the marginal employee they planned to bring on.
Boris Cherny ships 20-30 PRs per day. A traditional engineer ships 3 per week. The difference isn't talent — it's communication overhead. Here's why AI-enabled startups are pulling ahead.
Emails now begin 'Hi Tomasz or Tomasz's agent.' What does it mean to write to someone when you expect a machine to answer? The polite thing now is to assume the robot.
Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B matches December's frontier models & runs locally on 12GB RAM. A $5K laptop pays for itself in weeks at heavy usage.
The more I use AI, the more I return to paper. Strategic planning upstream unlocks autonomous execution downstream.
DeepSeek V3 matches GPT-5.2 on most benchmarks. It costs 90% less. AI has its generic drug moment.
Databricks has overtaken Snowflake in revenue. AI turned unstructured data from liability to asset, flipping the data warehouse market.
Analysis of 14 production agent workflows reveals the optimal balance between deterministic code & LLM inference. 65% of nodes run as pure code, saving tokens & improving reliability.
Theory Ventures leads Koah's $20.5M Series A to build the monetization layer for AI applications. Every interface shift finds its answer in advertising.
Practical lessons from a year building AI agent systems : prototype with frontier models, fine-tune for stable tasks, use static typing, & run competing agents as critics.