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Cheap to Build, Expensive to Keep
The new economics of software in an age of effortless creation.
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Matt Trifiro
Organized Panic, Standardized Systems
How a nineteenth-century kitchen offers a blueprint for modern software
Jul 16
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Matt Trifiro
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Decoding the AI Cost Curve
A framework for understanding what actually drives spend once automation reaches millions of users.
Jul 13
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Matt Trifiro
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The AI Cost Black Box
Why most companies have no idea what their AI spend is actually buying.
Jul 11
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Matt Trifiro
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Jevons Was Right About Your Token Bill
How cheaper models manufacture demand you didn't plan for.
Jul 10
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Matt Trifiro
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Model Arbitrage
Once model routing becomes table stakes, the advantage shifts to knowing the cheapest execution path that reliably clears each task’s quality, latency…
Jul 9
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Matt Trifiro
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Pricing the Prompt
AI broke the assumption that cost lives in the infrastructure layer
Jul 8
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Matt Trifiro
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You Were the Scheduler
The next productivity leap comes from designing loops, not juggling workers.
Jul 3
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Matt Trifiro
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June 2026
Build the Product an Agent Can Operate
Why the next great software products will be built for machines that act, not humans who click
Jun 30
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Matt Trifiro
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Model Arbitrage: The New AI Margin Game
The durable advantage is knowing, task by task, how far down the model stack you can go before quality breaks.
Jun 30
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Matt Trifiro
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Why Every Lab Is Building a Coding Agent (And None of It Is About Code)
Frontier labs are betting on code as a proxy for general computer use, aiming to automate all knowledge work, not just programming.
Jun 29
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Matt Trifiro
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Nobody Reads the Code Anymore
Code review was the last human checkpoint before production. Now, it's a bottleneck that can't scale.
Jun 21
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Matt Trifiro
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