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No. 18 · Sep 23, 2026 · AI-native company
My warning to other AI-native operators: AI amplifies both your strengths and weaknesses
The same AI lifted the strongest small businesses 15% and cut the weakest 8%. Product.ai founder Michael Quoc on the Amplification Paradox.
No. 17 · Aug 25, 2026 · Trust and verification
Why you ask AI for product recommendations and spend hours researching anyway
AI product recommendations hallucinate, contradict themselves, and lean on seller-supplied data. Here’s why, and what to check before you buy.
No. 16 · Jul 22, 2026 · AI-native company
Loop engineering is the meme. Outcome engineering is the job.
Anyone can run an AI agent loop. Trusting the results takes outcome engineering: written outcomes, limits, tie-breakers, and outside verification.
No. 15 · Jul 1, 2026 · AI-native companyAI automation is bad for business. That’s why I’m building my company around AI.
AI layoffs are at record highs but don’t improve ROI. Product.ai founder Michael Quoc on running his company on AI without cutting jobs.
No. 14 · May 7, 2026 · Product designDesigners aren't becoming engineers. They're becoming systems thinkers.
What's actually happening in design at frontier AI firms, and what we're doing about it at Product.ai.
No. 13 · Apr 8, 2026 · Model landscapeClaude Mythos proves that AI safety is an offensive weapon, not a constraint.
What Anthropic's mechanistic interpretability infrastructure revealed about Claude Mythos.
No. 12 · Mar 24, 2026 · Context engineeringWhy does ChatGPT give you generic answers instead of insight?
The structural reason AI output feels shallow - and how to get past the surface.
No. 11 · Mar 5, 2026 · Trust and verification60% of promo codes are dead. You pasted one at checkout last week.
Publishing codes is free. Adjudicating which ones actually work took fifteen years.
No. 10 · Feb 17, 2026 · Trust and verificationAxiomatic Intelligence: When the AI cannot afford to guess.
AI agents are about to make decisions on your behalf. They read the same polluted web you already distrust.
No. 9 · Feb 2, 2026 · Trust and verificationThe fiduciary diode: Engineering neutrality in the age of slop.
Better prompts. More sources. Stronger policies. Every obvious fix fails for the same reason.
No. 8 · Jan 17, 2026 · Trust and verificationThe beige singularity: How the web poisoned AI—and AI is poisoning it back.
The internet promised to make shopping easier. It made it into a part-time job.
No. 7 · Dec 8, 2025 · Model landscapeFrom benchmarks to reality: Decoding the new Gemini 3, Claude 4.5, GPT 5.1 - what's really changed?
Why "vibes" are just downstream effects of hardware topology.
No. 6 · Dec 1, 2025 · Trust and verificationThe glass box mandate: why the future of AI is "ugly."
Moving from the "Black Box" era to the "Audit" era of design.
No. 5 · Nov 18, 2025 · Context engineeringThe 10 immutable laws of context engineering.
Why 99% of AI projects fail at the prompt layer, and the architectural physics of the ones that win.
No. 4 · Nov 17, 2025 · AI-native companyThe operating system for AI-native companies: Building in public.
Proof-of-Work systems and Proof-of-Thesis frameworks for architecting AI-native companies
No. 3 · Nov 5, 2025 · Context engineeringStop prompting. Start architecting.
Why the "Prompt" is a Mirage and How to Build a True AI-Native Operating System
No. 2 · Nov 3, 2025 · Product designThe age of agents is here. Stop designing chatbots.
The deterministic GUI is dead. The new job of AI product design is to stop designing screens and start architecting trust.
No. 1 · Oct 27, 2025 · Trust and verificationAI is a relevance engine, not a truth oracle.
Deconstructing the "pure automation" myth and the game-theoretic architecture of our "Human Compute Moat."