Microsoft & Google commit $555B in cloud backlog & $232B in annualized capex, driving unprecedented AI infrastructure buildout despite spending 93-137% of cash reserves.
Between 2021 & 2024, classic software companies lost their product-market fit overnight. In the AI era, PMF is like United Miles—you must continuously re-earn it to maintain status.
Join us for an intimate conversation on building AI-native systems, maintaining velocity at scale, & the future of engineering with Calvin French-Owen, former CTO of Segment & OpenAI Codex leader.
Just as feature engineering defined success in classical ML, reward function design now determines which AI agents win. Today it's craft—tomorrow it may require entirely new architectures.
As AI agents handle more tasks, deployment location matters. Enterprises need their own cloud for control & compliance, while consumers benefit from client-side agents for privacy & speed.
As AI becomes our primary news source, are we returning to an era of ABC, NBC & CBS—where three or four major models filter & shape how we understand the world?
Google's AI token processing reaches 1.3 quadrillion monthly tokens in October 2025, but growth decelerates from 250T to 107T per month. What's driving the slowdown?
Comprehensive guide to implementing AI in startups. Strategy fundamentals, implementation approach, data requirements, team structure, & scaling AI capabilities.
OpenAI's Codex went from intern to senior engineer in 12 months. At 92% adoption & 72% more pull requests, the architect-implementer workflow proves AI has graduated beyond junior-level work.
Early adopters are testing productivity systems in hours instead of weeks. The signals suggest AI prompts will eventually subsume the $30 book market.
