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Slowing AI Down Won’t Be Enough
A security perspective on pacing the frontier, the systems we trust to contain AI, and the human oversight we risk losing.
Sep 15
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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The AI Score Answers the Wrong Question
AI can help with prose. The author still has to supply the judgment and own the result.
Jul 28
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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The PR Shipped. Did the Engineer Grow?
AI can improve engineering output while weakening the signals managers use to evaluate growth.
Jul 21
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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When AI-First Becomes a Loyalty Test
Adoption pressure can teach engineers to perform belief instead of improving the work.
Jul 7
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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Markdown Is Becoming the Application Layer of AI Apps
Why AI apps are moving from framework-heavy orchestration to harnesses plus Markdown.
Jun 29
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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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.
Jun 23
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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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.
Jun 16
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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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.
Jun 12
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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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.
Jun 9
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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The GTM for Developer Tools Is Breaking in Two Places at Once
Two shifts hit dev-tool go-to-market at once. The funnel was built for neither.
May 15
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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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.
May 5
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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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.
Apr 28
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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