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Arguments, Dead Ideas, and Signals in one stream. Three formats, one question: what breaks when software starts doing the work?

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ArgumentSeptember 8, 2026Software

The Screen Can Shrink. Governance Cannot.

The strongest objection to the disappearing application is also the reason the execution layer becomes valuable.

ArgumentSeptember 1, 2026Software

The Workflow Escaped the Application

Once intelligence can coordinate across systems, the boundaries of the application stop being the boundaries of the work.

Dead Idea #005August 25, 2026Software

The application owns the user.

The most valuable enterprise application may become invisible to the person using it.

Signal #002August 18, 2026Work

The SDLC Is Becoming Agent-Executed

Coding agents are not simply making developers type faster. They are changing what software engineering work looks like.

ArgumentAugust 4, 2026Software

Software Is Becoming the Work

The important shift is not that software got smarter. It is that software can increasingly act.

Dead Idea #004July 21, 2026Work

Productivity is the goal.

Saving ten hours is useful. Removing ten days from the path between decision and outcome is different.

Signal #001July 7, 2026Software

AI Is Moving From Assist to Execute

The language around enterprise AI is changing because the capability boundary is changing.

Dead Idea #003May 19, 2026Organization

An AI strategy is enough.

Most companies do not have an AI problem. They have an operating-model problem that AI is exposing.

Dead Idea #002May 5, 2026Services

Headcount is scale.

For services businesses in particular, this assumption is about to get expensive.

Dead Idea #001April 21, 2026Software

AI is a feature.

If your AI strategy ends with adding AI to the product, you may be improving yesterday’s architecture.

ArgumentApril 7, 2026Economics

A Violent Repricing of Tech Has Started

AI is attacking the two economic assumptions that powered technology for the last twenty years: expensive labor and differentiated features.

ArgumentMarch 10, 2026Software

The Execution Layer Is Where the Value Moves

Everyone is focused on better models. I think the bigger shift is happening one layer lower, where decisions become actions.