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The AI Productivity Bill Comes Due in Production
AI makes code cheaper. It does not make weak ideas useful or production work free.
 • Juan Cruz Martinez
The Hiring Signal Is Moving Out of the Code
AI did not make technical interviews less technical. It changed what the interview has to prove.
 • Juan Cruz Martinez
The Token Budget Is Becoming Engineering Policy
AI coding is moving from personal workflow to metered infrastructure, and the next fight is over budgets, incentives, and who gets to spend.
 • Juan Cruz Martinez
The Sign-Off Layer Is Becoming the Real Engineering System
AI made code generation cheaper. The part that still matters is whether a human can understand, verify, and own what the agent produced.
 • Juan Cruz Martinez
The GTM for Developer Tools Is Breaking in Two Places at Once
A product manager opens Cursor on a Tuesday afternoon.
 • Juan Cruz Martinez
I Didn't Know How Much I'd Handed Over to AI
The drift from skeptical user to autopilot, and the discipline I built to fight it.
 • Juan Cruz Martinez
The Appearance of Safety Is Not Safety
A Cursor agent deleted PocketOS's production database in nine seconds. The data came back. The structural problem didn't.
 • Juan Cruz Martinez
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