Cheap Tools, Scarce Judgment · Why Outside Expertise Has Never Been More Valuable
AI tools get cheaper every quarter. The experience to use them well does not. Why outside expertise is worth the most right now, and how to start small.

AI tools get cheaper every quarter. The experience to use them well does not. Why outside expertise is worth the most right now, and how to start small.
Every fall the same document shows up. Last year's technology budget, rolled forward, with a percentage on top. For most of the past twenty years that was a defensible act.…
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Anthropic just published the receipts. The capability that rebuilt its own company is now sitting on the shelf at roughly the price of electricity, and the only open variable is…