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Antoine Buteau

Antoine Buteau

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AI Inference Gateways and Control Planes — Industry Deep Dive

Executive summary AI inference gateways are the control plane for multi-model AI. The simple version is a proxy: one API that routes requests to many model providers. The more important version is a management layer for model traffic: policy, fallback, spend, privacy, observability, audit, billing, and provider choice. The
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Developer Infrastructure After the Diff — Industry Deep Dive

Executive Summary AI raises the stakes for the post-diff layer of software development. If code gets cheaper to generate, the scarce resource shifts to proving that the code is safe, deployable, observable, compliant, and repairable. That is the real market behind “developer infrastructure after the diff.” It starts when
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Product Engineering Work Graph — Industry Deep Dive

Executive summary Every software company has some version of the same messy path. A customer asks for SSO in a support ticket. A sales rep repeats the ask in Slack. A PM hears the same thing on a renewal call. Someone adds it to a feedback board. A researcher tags
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Vibe Coding — Industry Deep Dive

Executive summary The interesting question in vibe coding is no longer whether AI can write code. It can. The harder question is who owns the app after the code exists. Vibe coding is the shift from writing software line by line to steering software agents with intent and feedback. The
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Lessons from Amanda Askell

Lessons from Amanda Askell Amanda Askell is a philosopher who transitioned from researching the ethics of infinity to leading personality alignment at...
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Private Connectivity Layer — Industry Deep Dive

Executive summary The corporate VPN is dying slowly, and not because the world found a prettier VPN client. It is dying because the thing it used to represent, private access to internal systems, has split into too many jobs for one blunt network tunnel. A laptop needs to reach a
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Daily Digest - 2026-06-12

1. Systems of Record Won the SaaS Era Clearinghouses Will Win the Agents Era — Clouded Judgement by Jamin Ball Why read: Explains the ultimate strategic...
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Lessons from Gwynne Shotwell

Gwynne Shotwell is the President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX, where she bridges the gap between ambitious concepts and daily manufacturing...
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