Why AI Wrappers Are the New Dropshipping
The AI wrapper economy mirrors dropshipping: low barriers to entry, no moat, platform dependency. With 90% failure rates and platforms absorbing successful features, the model is broken by design....
Most Security Breaches Don't Matter
The security industry profits from fear. Most breaches have minimal impact while companies overspend on exotic threats....
Why AI Agents Can't Remember (And What's Changing)
Current AI agents don't learn - they retrieve. New research on reinforcement learning for memory could change that. Understanding why your AI agent keeps making the same mistakes....
AI Art Is Actually Good for Artists
The panic over AI image generation misses how it's actually helping working artists be more productive and creative....
European VC Funding: The Gap Between Headlines and Reality
European AI funding doubled in 2025. But 90% of startups fail and 95% of AI pilots never deliver ROI. What the funding headlines don't tell you....
The AI Bubble Will Deflate, Not Pop
Drawing parallels between the 2000 dot-com crash and today's AI investment frenzy. Why the current AI correction will be a deflation rather than a catastrophic burst....
Why Multimodal AI Is Massively Overhyped
Multimodal AI sits at peak hype on Gartner's 2025 cycle. But 80% of pilots fail to scale beyond testing. The gap between benchmark performance and production reality is where projects go to die....
Why AI Can't Count the R's in Strawberry
LLMs confidently say strawberry has two R's because they've never seen letters—only tokens. This tokenization blindness predicts where AI will fail....
Crypto Is Bad in All Sorts of Ways
Environmental destruction, greater fool economics, regulatory arbitrage, and ransomware's favorite payment method. The SEC was right all along....
I Evaluated Dozens of Blockchain Startups in 2018
What I learned doing technical due diligence on blockchain startups seeking funding. The technology works - for exactly one use case. Everything else fails the database test....
The NFT Crash Was Predictable
NFTs crashed 95% from their 2021 peak. This was predictable from the start. Artificial scarcity of infinitely reproducible digital files was never going to hold value....
Why Technical Interviews Test the Wrong Thing
Technical interviews optimize for competitive coding skills that rarely matter in actual work. What we should test instead - and how hiring could improve....
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