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you're being lied to (opens the original)
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Hey there! I'm Robert. Welcome to a free edition of my newsletter. Every week, I share my story of building my AI startup in public, focused on hyper-personalized AI. These newsletters include my reflections on the journey, and topics such as AI, personal growth, CEO-ing, leadership, product, engineering, communication, and more. Subscribe today to follow along.because fear is doing the thinking for youOctober 27, 1962.BOOM.Or almost.American depth charges are going off around the hull of a Sovi
the 6 NEW rules of context engineering (opens the original)
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Hey there! I'm Robert. Welcome to a free edition of my newsletter. Every week, I share my story of building my AI startup in public, focused on hyper-personalized AI. These newsletters include my reflections on the journey, and topics such as AI, personal growth, CEO-ing, leadership, product, engineering, communication, and more. Subscribe today to follow along.If you have a CLAUDE.md file, it is probably working against you right now.I can say that with confidence because last week Anthropic de
AI native orgs in 2036 do this... (opens the original)
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If you're a tech leader walking into H2 planning, you already feel it:Product wants tokens, Engineering wants tokens, Design wants tokens.And Meta is openly saying an engineer's burn rate may soon equal their salary.Six weeks ago I gave you five habits for controlling AI spend. But habits don't survive hundreds or thousands of engineers at scale. Systems do. And policy needs somewhere to live.So this week Jonathan and I did the homework so you don’t have to.We went through everything the leading
how AI changes PM, eng, design (opens the original)
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Hey there! I'm Robert, CEO and co-founder of Clarity. Every week I share signal from the noise on AI, building, and becoming.I sat in a room with an enterprise customer who has 2,000+ engineers, designers, and product managers.One of them asked the question everyone was thinking."Am I training my replacement?"That fear is not paranoia.Cloudflare just cut 1,100 people and called them "measurers." But the fear clouds
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