Tomasz Tunguz

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   Thinking in Systems, Shipping in Loops

   24 Sept 2026 · tomtunguz.com

   AI has removed the typing from software engineering & left the system design. DHH told Rails World that writing code by hand is no longer economically productive ; Artemis engineers merged 16 pull requests per day by August, & Lauren Tan ships 2,000 a month. The craft of fitting code together by…

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   The Most Important Market in AI is the Middle

   23 Sept 2026 · tomtunguz.com

   AI prices are collapsing, but the competition is not at the frontier. Anthropic held the Opus line at $5 & $25 across five releases while OpenAI cut Luna 80% then 50% again, & open models now run a majority of token volume at an 86% discount to closed models. The most capable model, Fable 5.1…