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AI Product · Apr 2026 · 5 min read
Claude Buddy Was Not a Joke
Claude Buddy was not an April Fools joke. Anthropic shipped a terminal pet inside Claude Code, developers named it and grew attached, then it vanished eight days later with no notice. The lesson: delight is the moat most AI companies keep ignoring, not a consumer-app luxury.
AI Product · Mar 2026 · 4 min read
Human-in-the-Loop Is Not Enough
Human-in-the-loop is not oversight when a person rubber-stamps 200 AI outputs an hour in four seconds each. That is an alibi, not a safeguard. Real human control is an architecture: confidence-tiered routing, explanation as the primary interface, one-click overrides, and overrides fed back as training signal.
AI Product · Feb 2026 · 5 min read
The Best AI Products Go Unnoticed
The best AI products disappear. No chatbot, no "powered by AI" badge, no prompt box. They make the decisions a user would have made, at the moment they would have made them, without asking. The intelligence lives in what does not happen. Calm software wins because it reduces cognitive load instead of adding it.
AI Product · Feb 2026 · 3 min read
AI Will Commoditize Everything Except Taste
Taste becomes the only competitive advantage. Within eighteen months, every team has the same AI models, APIs, and infrastructure. Capability converges to commodity. When that happens, the experience is the sole differentiator, and the experience is shaped by taste. At Taxa, that judgment secured $113M against incumbents with more data.
AI Product · Feb 2026 · 5 min read
Building AI-Native Apps with Taste
Most AI products are capable. That is precisely the problem. Taste is what turns capability into something people trust.
AI Product · Feb 2026 · 2 min read
Most AI Products Are Just Bad Software
Most AI products are bad software with a chatbot bolted on. AI-native does not mean adding a chat panel or summary button. It means rebuilding the system so intelligence changes the work itself. You remove steps, move complexity into the system, and increase control instead of decorating the UI.