The Pricing Power of Agents
Agent pricing reveals whether you're solving scarcity or creating disruption - and the market rewards these very differently.
Agent pricing reveals whether you're solving scarcity or creating disruption - and the market rewards these very differently.
Stripe launched Tempo today. I raced Claude against a local model on my laptop - and the simpler model won.
For every dollar hyperscalers earn from AI today, they're spending twelve dollars to build more capacity. That's the 12x bet embedded in $575 billion of capex this year.
The AI infrastructure shortage isn't chips anymore — it's power, data centers & memory. What happens when demand exceeds supply through 2028?
85 million US packages arrived damaged in 2024, a 30% increase. BackOps deploys AI agents that accelerate customer response times by 93% and automatically file 100% of eligible carrier claims.
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.