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AI engineeringSeptember 2026
6 landmark AI papers you must read
The transformer, GPT-3, chain-of-thought, RAG, Chinchilla and the Bitter Lesson, read in the original, with the caveats lost in the retelling.
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AI engineeringSeptember 2026
System 1 AI is here: Jev decides in milliseconds
How TypeSafe's Jev decides in milliseconds, where it matches general models and where it trails them, and how to route on its confidence score.
3 posts
SaaSSeptember 2026
SaaS growth flattening? 5 talks on the levers that work
Why SaaS growth stalls near $1M, why cutting the price makes it worse, how to find the price people will pay, and what buyers now check.
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AI engineering
The Bitter Lesson, explained in 4 minutes
Rich Sutton's 1,100-word case that methods which scale with computation eventually beat hand-built human knowledge. What it claims, and what it leaves out.
23 Sept 20265 min read4 min listen
AI engineering
Routing AI decisions on a confidence score you can trust
A calibrated model that reports 0.8 should be right 8 times in 10. How that turns an AI step into a threshold your code can actually branch on.
22 Sept 20266 min read5 min listen
AI engineering
Chinchilla: why parameter counts stopped being the headline
A 70B model beat a 280B one by reading 4 times more text. What compute-optimal training changed, and the transferable idea sitting under the ratio.
21 Sept 20268 min read6 min listen
SaaS
Adding AI to your SaaS without shipping a sparkle button
If your AI feature saves a user 2 minutes it is decoration. The 15-minute bar, the 6 patterns worth building, and what eBay got wrong with its listings.
21 Sept 20269 min read9 min listen
AI engineering
Jev vs general-purpose LLMs: what 75x cheaper actually buys
Jev matches a general model that costs 75 times as much, and trails the strongest by 6 points. How to decide whether that trade fits your workflow.
20 Sept 20266 min read5 min listen
SaaS
What SaaS buyers want in 2026: 5 moats that survive AI
Great metrics got one company more than 20 meetings with private equity buyers and not one offer. The question they now ask, and 5 moats that answer it.
20 Sept 20268 min read7 min listen
AI engineering
The RAG paper: what retrieval actually buys you
Human judges called the retrieval-backed model more factual 42.7% of the time against 7.1% for the plain one. The original is more careful than its descendants.
19 Sept 20267 min read7 min listen
SaaS
How to find the price people will actually pay
A survey method from the 1970s that maps 4 price thresholds in your buyers' heads, and why moving up-market usually means less hassle.
19 Sept 20267 min read6 min listen
AI engineering
What is Jev? The fast model that answers in JSON
Jev is a System 1 model built for classification. What it does, where it is far faster, and the 4 jobs it is wrong for.
18 Sept 20267 min read7 min listen
AI engineering
Chain-of-thought prompting, and when it backfires
Asking for step-by-step reasoning only helps above a model-size threshold. Below it, results often get worse. Why that matters more on cheap models now.
17 Sept 202610 min read8 min listen
SaaS
Why lowering your SaaS price can shrink lifetime value 10x
One founder dropped a $99 plan to $19 and watched lifetime value fall from $683 to $68. What a price actually filters for, and why cheap buyers churn.
17 Sept 20267 min read7 min listen
AI engineering
The GPT-3 paper: where prompting came from
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners is why you put examples in your prompts. What in-context learning claimed, and the caveats it admitted.
16 Sept 20269 min read7 min listen
SaaS
6 reasons SaaS founders stall at $1M, and how to get past it
The traits that get a founder to a million are the ones that hold them there. A time audit, a sequencing rule, and the identity shift nobody warns you about.
15 Sept 20267 min read7 min listen
AI engineering
Attention Is All You Need: what the paper actually says
The 2017 paper behind every model you use. What the Transformer replaced, why attention is quadratic, and which of its choices you are still paying for.
15 Sept 202611 min read10 min listen

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6 landmark AI papers you must read

System 1 AI is here: Jev decides in milliseconds

SaaS growth flattening? 5 talks on the levers that work

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