Frontier Notes.
Field notes from the AI frontier, for the people who run companies. Each one reads what just changed, then asks the only question that matters: what should a business do about it? New to the ideas? Start with the glossary or our Perspectives.
The Apex Predator Arrived Last Week
Three real incidents. One emerging pattern. And a new reality for every business that builds or buys software.
WorkThe Engineer Who Stays
AI made custom software cheap to build. It did not make it cheap to keep. Inside the rise of the forward deployed engineer, the job that keeps AI-built…
StrategyThe Last Company to Adopt AI
It’s 2032. AI is so ordinary that nobody says the word anymore, except at the companies that waited. A forecast of how enterprise AI travels from today’s…
WorkBorn Fluent, Hired Last
Gen Z is the first generation to grow up with AI, and the first to find it standing in the doorway of their first job. A forecast of how AI reshapes job…
WorkThe Code Writes Itself. The Job Doesn’t.
AI now writes most of the new code at some of the world’s biggest software companies. The software job is not disappearing. It is splitting into three: the…
JudgementNot a Rubber Stamp
Every AI vendor and every new AI law promises a “human in the loop”. In practice, people approve 97% of what an AI agent asks them to. What the phrase…
OrganisationsThe Team You Can’t See
In 2020, “hybrid” meant working from home on Fridays. By 2032, it will mean something much bigger: a workforce of people and AI agents, planned, managed and…
SecurityThe Cat and Mouse Between Good and Bad
For decades, the defenders had the money, the talent and each other. Attackers had to be lucky. In one week this October, AI showed how much of that…
SecurityIs Bitcoin Really Going to $0?
Chamath Palihapitiya says Bitcoin will be capped, then hacked, then worthless. Quantum computers are part of his case. Here is what he actually said and…
StrategyFrontier vs Micro: The Enterprise War
The giant frontier models want every enterprise request. Small models trained on a company’s own data want most of them. Satya Nadella says no company…
StrategyThe Enterprise Brain: How Far Away Are We?
Every company already has a brain. It is just scattered across policies nobody reads, procedures nobody follows exactly, and the heads of people who might…
StrategyThe Forgetting Machine: Can AI Learn to Remember?
Today’s AI can draft a contract in seconds and forget your company by the next conversation. A famous MIT study blamed that forgetting for failed AI…
OrganisationsWho Decides? The AI Decision Matrix and the Hybrid Organisation
MIT has published a simple map for one of the hardest questions in business today: which decisions should AI make alone, which should it share, and which…
We read the frontier so you can run the business.
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