- 07 What if the Binance hacker wasn't a person?
Everyone's blaming North Korea for the $6.3bn Binance heist, and they're probably right. But it's worth asking what a rogue AI would do for money.
- 06 Is the 10x engineer still a thing?
A CTO friend can no longer pick out the 10x engineers on his team, because agentic coding has turned every capable engineer into one.
- 05 Does every CTO need a skunkworks?
With agentic teams, two hackers can spin up five MVPs while a normal team ships one feature. The case for keeping a skunkworks in your back pocket.
- 04 Containment beats permission
Coding agents should run unsupervised, but inside a dev environment that's safe to be wrong in. The agent boundary is the wrong line to defend.
- 03 Reselling tokens isn't a business
OpenAI is reportedly burning $1.69 for every dollar earned, and Anthropic is already raising prices. If your AI business is mostly API markup, the price floor is coming for you.
- 02 Multi-token prediction, on a small laptop
Google shipped multi-token prediction for Gemma 4. The headline 3x speedup is for big GPUs, but the edge-model drafters quietly target laptops like mine.
- 01 Vibe coding isn't engineering
Engineers treat coding agents as smart junior devs. Vibe coders treat them as their CTO. The gap matters more than the AI hype suggests.