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The top 10 posts of 2025 reveal a year dominated by AI infrastructure economics, falling cost curves & fundamental shifts in market structure.

Vercel replaced 9 of 10 inbound SDRs with an AI agent in six weeks, using one part-time GTM engineer. Conversion rates held flat while speed improved. The future sales leaders predicted at dinner has arrived.

AI startups are discovering PE-backed companies as their fastest path to market. With 14,300 portfolio companies seeking margin expansion & faster decision cycles, private equity has become the most efficient go-to-market channel in enterprise ...

The AI market is sizzling with innovation, but when will market share stabilize? An exploration of switching costs, model improvements, & the moment the fat congeals.

Gemini 3's release and Nvidia's earnings confirm that AI scaling laws are accelerating. Pre-training gains combined with massive infrastructure buildouts signal a new era of model performance.

Production AI is more mature & hybrid than expected : 70% use open source, agents connect to databases over chat, RLFT delivers 16-30% lift, & context remains the #1 unsolved problem.

We achieved 93% Claude parity in tool calling by distilling large model capabilities into GPT-OSS 20B using DSPy & GEPA prompt optimization with curated training data.

A developer's journey through hitting AI code generation limits & exploring alternatives like API billing, other vendors, & local models.

Datadog's platform transition drives remarkable consistency: 25% YoY growth for 12 straight quarters, 120% net dollar retention recovery, 84% multi-product adoption, & 15 AI native customers >$1M ARR as security suite accelerates to mid-50s% growth.

AI infrastructure spending hits $500B in 2024, ranking as the sixth-largest investment in US history. Projected to reach $983B by 2030, surpassing the New Deal but falling short of the railroad era's 6% of GDP peak.