Archive - Cu(m^2)ulative

Platform vs. Product

Why platforms win, and what product startups can do about it

Jul 7 •

June 2025

Securing AI Agents: Lessons from microservices & Zero Trust

This post is a little different than my usual ones.

Jun 10 •

The end of (human) coding: What happens when AI writes all the code?

Over the past two weeks, I’ve been using OpenAI Codex extensively—and the experience has been nothing short of profound.

Jun 2 •

April 2025

Shipping fast and staying clean: How to tame tech debt in a high-growth startup?

There’s a moment in every startup’s life when the code starts creaking.

Apr 21 •

March 2025

Battle of the LLMs Part 2: Can they code and judge themselves?

In the first experiment, I tested whether LLMs could act as code reviewers, asking them to define a rubric for high-quality code and then critique a…

Mar 18 •

Battle of the LLMs: Evaluating LLMs as code reviewers

A year ago, GitHub Copilot was the best AI-powered assistant a developer could get.

Mar 12 •

January 2025

Scaling engineering teams: Building career ladders

One of the most common challenges engineering leaders face as their organization grows is creating a clear, fair, and scalable career ladder.

Jan 27 •

December 2024

Why did Microsoft give GitHub Copilot away for free?

AI-powered code completion tools like Github Copilot, Tabnine, Amazon Q, cursor and codeium have been all the rage over the past year or so.

Dec 26, 2024 •

November 2024

What does it mean to be "Enterprise Ready"

In the early startup days, the first customers are often friends, family, or close professional contacts willing to take a chance on an untested…

Nov 18, 2024 •

Messiness can be a huge moat

If you are able to control and simplify it

Nov 12, 2024 •

October 2024

State of AI Agents: Not autonomous (yet)

Last week I attended the IA 2024 Summit which witnessed a lot of excitement around AI Agents, amongst other AI topics.

Oct 8, 2024 •

September 2024

AI: Feature or Product?

AI has undergone a meteoric rise, especially since the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT and the rise of large language models (LLMs).

Sep 23, 2024 •

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