AI is reshaping what technical leaders are for. Six patterns of response — buyer, vibe builder, depth-seeker, evangelist, governor, abstainer — each delegating the thinking somewhere different. The trap is not AI. It is the certainty.
Are we asking the wrong question about AI and work? Three concepts from Indian philosophy — what holds, what dissolves, and what you actually do — reframe everything.
Sequoia argues hierarchy is just information routing. They're right — but hierarchy carries five other things that AI can't replace. Here's what the winners will do differently.
Everyone's asking where the moats are when AI tooling is everywhere. One answer is becoming clear: codified organisational knowledge that can be acted upon at machine speed.
We're moving toward production code that no human ever reads. The bottleneck isn't trusting the code — it's building the human capacity to design trustworthy systems.
What's happening to listed SaaS companies is exactly what happened to translation companies in 2021. Markets don't fear AI — they fear the collapse of their predictive frameworks.
Leadership in the AI age isn't about having answers. It's about translation — converting overwhelming complexity into actionable clarity for different audiences.
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