Alex Rossie
I build companies and I fly aircraft. I write here about AI, markets, and history.
- The model writes anything. That is exactly why your stack matters more.
The popular take says AI writes any language, so your stack stops mattering. It is precisely backwards: the moment writing code went nearly free, the axis flipped from easy-to-write to easy-to-prove, which is why static typing and opinionated frameworks win.
- An AI walked 67 people to the right answer for a month. Their own judgment came out no sharper.
MIT put an AI between 67 people and every call for a month. It fixed their answers and built no lasting skill. The human moat behaves less like a wall than a muscle: stop loading it and it fades.
- The keyboard was never the bottleneck
AI made developers write 180 percent more code and ship only 30 percent more software. The keyboard was never the constraint. Automate every layer and the residual is judgment.
- Distribution is the new moat: every company is an AI wrapper now
Lovable is worth $6.6 billion and owns no model. Strip out the exuberance and the price is for one thing, the demand. A lab can clone the product. It cannot inherit the customers.
- What the machines hand back
The looms took the weaving. They did not take the worth of cloth. Three hundred years of automation say the value does not evaporate, it moves, and it keeps moving to the same three places.