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gjlondon.com

AI agents could make free software matter again

Free software once mattered deeply, but faded when SaaS made those freedoms feel irrelevant.

a16z.com

There are only two paths left for software

Grow 10% or earn 40%, no middle path is left.

lardel.li

Soon owning will be impossible

It‘s maybe time to think about the theoretical limits of the current economic system (which could surprisingly soon become very practical).

hvpandya.com

Every company is a startup now

Large companies spent years rewarding the representation of work over the work itself. In the AI era, that has led to a crisis.

seldo.com

Do AI-enabled companies need fewer people?

AI-native startups are doing more with less — 40% smaller teams, 6x higher revenue per employee — and the data confirms it’s not just hype.

sequoiacap.com

Services: the new software

The next $1T company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm.

anthropic.com

Labor market impacts of AI

Report by Anthropic reveals how AI has been narrowing the "front door" for new talent.

robinrendle.com

The song of LinkedIn

How corporate platforms force a specific, hollow performance.

thoughtshrapnel.com

Agentic commerce is a catastrophe for brands who rely on friction

Our current neoliberal version of capitalism has built a rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations that agents don't have.

juno-labs.com

Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

Every company building an AI assistant is also building hardware that listens and watches 24/7. Local on-device inference is the only way out.

elliotbonneville.com

The only moat left is money

The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.

seangoedecke.com

Large tech companies don’t need heroes

It's processes and incentives that determine what happens, not any individual heroics.

interbrand.com

Best Global Brands 2025

Top 100 most valuable global brands according to Interbrand, with historical data since 2000.

dri.es

The software sovereignty scale

Digital sovereignty depends less on where software comes from and more on who controls it.

chrbutler.com

Progress without disruption

There’s nothing about progress that inherently requires disruption—except our inability to cooperate for stability.

peterboeckel.com

The displacement of purpose

What happens with purpose when AI automates our labor.

oreilly.com

AI and the Next Economy

The narrative from the AI labs is dazzling: build AGI, unlock astonishing productivity, and watch GDP surge.

matthewbutterick.com

The copyrightability of fonts revisited

How many existing regis­tra­tions of font copy­rights might be vulner­able to attacks during liti­ga­tion?

zeldman.com

Cold storage

Good UX is what companies do when they have to. A company that has your stuff locked away doesn’t have to.

mikefisher.substack.com

More efficiency, more demand

The future of software engineers and data scientists is bright.