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AI and the Economics of Product
AI Agents Are Repeating the Microservices Trap
Splitting work into smaller pieces makes the system look cleaner, but the real complexity needs to be in the handoffs
7 hrs ago
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Ari Franklin
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Conviction versus Confidence
AI Can Create Confidence Easily. But It sahouldn't build Conviction.
Jul 10
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Ari Franklin
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AI makes the First Yes cheaper
AI lowers the cost of beginning things, but it does not remove the cost of owning what begins
Jul 8
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Ari Franklin
AI Will Not Save You From Your Operating Model
AI adoption will fail when organizations try to scale it as a fixed methodology. It will work better when they spread disciplined adaptation
Jun 30
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Ari Franklin
The Wrong ROI Question for AI
Evaluating AI with throughput accounting vs cost accounting principles
Jun 24
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Ari Franklin
AI Strategy Is a Blotto Game, Not a Factory Problem
AI makes execution cheaper, but that does not make strategy easier
Jun 17
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Ari Franklin
AI is eating the “keep things moving” work
Coordination gets cheaper, and the value of product work moves closer to what hasn't been decided yet
Apr 13
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Ari Franklin
Why AI Skills Exist and Most Teams Will Struggle With Them
From prompt engineering to decision engineering: why the future of AI is infrastructure, not content.
Apr 3
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Ari Franklin
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Skulto: Making AI Skills Resusable
I’m excited to announce Skulto: an open source app for discovering, inspecting, installing, and managing agent skills across different AI agents.
Jan 29
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Ari Franklin
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AI Coding for individuals vs teams
Great for "me," but not for "we"...?
Jan 12
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Ari Franklin
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