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The Unspoken Cost Shift of AI
Companies are laying off developers and replacing them with "cheap" AI tools - but those tools are actually subsidized by VCs. A look at the hidden cost shift coming when AI pricing moves from market capture to profit extraction.

Ray Alner
7 days ago3 min read


Can AI Reason? A Cool Experience I Had with Claude
Can AI Reason? I recently connected Claude up to Notion and there was an error. I asked Claude to decipher the error and come up with some solutions. All the while, it would test those solutions against the Notion page to see if it would work.

Ray Alner
Jul 84 min read


Fostering AI Adoption
A reflection on why AI feels overwhelming, why people give up too soon, and how employers can take the smarter path by empowering their team to work with AI.

Ray Alner
Jun 242 min read


AI and the Last 10 Percent
Businesses are turning to AI to cut costs and boost productivity. But what about the bugs, tech debt, and unfinished features that frustrate users every day? This post explores how AI can help us fix what we’ve left behind.

Ray Alner
Jun 233 min read


How AI’s Trajectory Mirrors the CGI Revolution
We’ve had experience with revolutionary tech. Remember CGI? We are following similar paths with AI as we did with CGI. Massive adoption, over-adoption, then settling into a balanced approach. Here’s how I think it will pan out.

Ray Alner
Jun 103 min read


Current Operating Systems are Dead in a Post AI World
The operating system we know and love today will not be sustainable in a post AI world. These OS’s are designed for offline first workloads, with much of the work we do on a day to day basis done in a browser. What would a post-AI OS look like?

Ray Alner
May 276 min read


Rethinking Software: From Features to Outcomes. Part 2
A look at how AI could shift software pricing from user licenses to feature-level value, encouraging leaner, outcome-driven tools over bloated all-in-one platforms.

Ray Alner
May 153 min read


Rethinking Apps: From Features to Outcomes. Part 1
A breakdown of how AI could simplify cluttered software interfaces by surfacing just-in-time features, improving usability, and shifting the way we think about how we use apps.

Ray Alner
May 153 min read


Stop Building Another AI Feature. Build a Better Integration.
Companies are all in on AI, but they’re doing it wrong. The future of apps will not be adding AI to their apps, but creating integrations.

Ray Alner
Mar 304 min read


What is Agentic AI?
So the question is: What is Agentic AI and why should you care about it? Well the answer is…

Ray Alner
Mar 55 min read


DeepSeeks Wild Ride
DeepSeek shot up to number 1, then got torn down by the rest of the AI industry, bringing the market with it. Was the reaction warranted?

Ray Alner
Feb 42 min read


Application Tracking System Scanning vs. GenAI “Interviews”
I wanted to see if generative AI can compete with ATS scanners. Here's what I learned.

Ray Alner
Oct 16, 202424 min read


AI Will Cause an Informational Dark Age
Advertising runs the internet. AI runs the future. We need to come up with a method to mesh the two together to where webpage ads can contin

Ray Alner
Jun 2, 20243 min read
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