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AI is making coding faster. Why isn’t software shipping faster?

Cursor recently released an iPad version of its coding product.

Aug 11 • Karim Fanous

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June 2026

AI & the democratization of information

Why lowering the cost of assembling information increases the importance of decision quality.

Jun 23 • Karim Fanous

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Software’s AI leverage: Small teams, strong anchors

Why AI agents amplify the judgment, product sense, and technical taste of an anchor engineer.

Jun 4 • Karim Fanous

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May 2026

Agents write at GPU speed, yet we ship at human speed.

Validation is the last bottleneck between autonomous code and autonomous delivery

May 11 • Karim Fanous

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April 2026

Five years, one acquisition, three lessons

Reflections on talent density, focusing on what you can control, and perseverance.

Apr 11 • Karim Fanous

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February 2026

Preparing for a world where humans don’t write code

Lessons from StrongDM's Software Factory: disposable code, explicit intent, and validation

Feb 9 • Karim Fanous

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Will AI kill SaaS? The case for and against disruption

Cheaper software and lower workflow costs meet switching costs, accountability, and data gravity

Feb 3 • Karim Fanous

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January 2026

AI Agents are here. Security isn’t ready.

Discovery, identity, observability, and continuous authorization for autonomous software

Jan 20 • Karim Fanous

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December 2025

AI made us faster. That’s not the same as better.

About a year and a half ago, the AI coding landscape was a very different place.

Dec 24, 2025 • Karim Fanous

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November 2025

The age of the human bottleneck is ending. The age of human intent is beginning

Prologue

Nov 27, 2025 • Karim Fanous

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October 2025

The Conversational Platform: The new human-computing platform

AI turns conversation into the new interface and agents into the new apps

Oct 13, 2025 • Karim Fanous

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Software’s Cambrian explosion: How AI might flood the software world

When software creation becomes abundant, discovery grows harder and shared infrastructure concentrates power.

Oct 9, 2025 • Karim Fanous

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