🚴‍♀️ I Was Playing a Game I Was Guaranteed to Lose. Here's What I Learned

On the tyranny of the Builder archetype, and finding my moat as an Architect.

Last Monday, I thought I had it figured out.

I’d written a whole piece about the AI hype train going the wrong way. My thesis was pragmatic:

SaaS is the skeleton. AI is the muscle. Build a boring, profitable workflow first. Solve bleeding, not annoyance. Don’t raise to survive.

It was sensible. It was also incomplete.

That pragmatic theory was the product o…