A bad workman blames his chisel

Why most complaints about AI are really complaints about operators.

May 10 • Pranav Pathak

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April 2026

Pricing AI: What Actually Works

How to price AI products and features without destroying your margins or your customer relationships.

Apr 5 • Pranav Pathak

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March 2026

The Builder Bubble

Why the Next 2-3 Years Are the Biggest Asymmetric Bet of Your Career

Mar 29 • Pranav Pathak

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Most AI UX Is Lazy

And why we love to hate chatbots

Mar 8 • Pranav Pathak

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Growth Machines: The Cursor Story

Lessons in scale you can steal from the fastest growing SaaS ever

Mar 1 • Pranav Pathak

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February 2026

Your Product Now Has Two Users

And one of them is AI

Feb 22 • Pranav Pathak

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ROI or Die.

Why the AI accountability gap is the most expensive problem in tech right now.

Feb 8 • Pranav Pathak

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You're Not Building an ‘AI Product’.

Why model performance is a design constraint, and calibration is the real AI skill.

Feb 1 • Pranav Pathak

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January 2026

Growth Machines: The Notion Story

The growth framework that turned near-death into $10B.

Jan 25 • Pranav Pathak

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October 2025

Enhancing Trust in AI Systems

Trust has quietly become the real bottleneck in AI adoption.

Oct 19, 2025 • Pranav Pathak

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User Memory as a Product Delighter

Remembering (and Forgetting) What Matters

Oct 4, 2025 • Pranav Pathak

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September 2025

Approximating a World Model - The Builder's Guide to Stateful AI

Yann LeCun is pushing the field towards world models.

Sep 27, 2025 • Pranav Pathak

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