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AI Agents are here. Security isn’t ready.

AI is no longer just answering questions.

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

For decades, the music and entertainment industries were shaped by scarcity.

Oct 9, 2025 • Karim Fanous

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September 2025

The vanishing first rung: How AI is hollowing out entry-level jobs

For generations, careers have begun the same way.

Sep 15, 2025 • Karim Fanous

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August 2025

Competing in a world of AI abundance: How to win when code has no value?

Economics begins with scarcity.

Aug 28, 2025 • Karim Fanous

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The first generation of programming directors

When I wrote about the last generation of programmers, I ended with a thought:

Aug 18, 2025 • Karim Fanous

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The last generation of programmers

At the dawn of the industrial loom, few weavers realized they were witnessing the end of their world.

Aug 4, 2025 • Karim Fanous

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July 2025

Platform vs. Product

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

Jul 7, 2025 • Karim Fanous

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June 2025

Securing AI Agents: Lessons from microservices & Zero Trust

This post is a little different than my usual ones.

Jun 10, 2025 • Karim Fanous

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, 2025 • Karim Fanous

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