Alex Rossie

I build companies and I fly aircraft. I write here about AI, markets, and history.

  • 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.

    Jul 15, 2026 / 844 words

  • 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.

    Jul 13, 2026 / 1,060 words

  • 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.

    Jun 21, 2026 / 720 words

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