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All posts tagged with "scaling".

Jun 14, 2026

Why a Longer Context Window Won't Fix Your AI Agent

Simon Du (Chief Scientist, Apodex) explains why decomposition — not a bigger context window — is what lets agents solve problems that burn 10M+ tokens.

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May 18, 2026

Why Infrastructure Is the New Moat in MarTech

Kashish Gupta (Co-CEO, Hightouch) argues that AI has made building UIs trivial — the real competitive advantage in marketing technology is now infrastructure.

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infrastructure startups scaling enterprise

May 17, 2026

Content Assembly vs Content Generation: Why the Distinction Matters for AI Marketing

Kashish Gupta (Co-CEO, Hightouch) explains why assembling marketing content from existing brand assets beats generating it from scratch — and how it guarantees brand determinism.

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automation production enterprise scaling

May 17, 2026

Can a $100M Company Run Finance With One Person?

Deepak Bapat (CTO, Tabs) predicts AI agents will let a $100M ARR company run its entire finance operation with a single person — here's the architecture that makes it possible.

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agents automation enterprise scaling

May 12, 2026

How a 10-Person Startup Built Enterprise-Grade Biometric Security

VeryAI has 3 engineers, 10 patents, and one of the largest palm datasets in the world. CEO Zach Meltzer explains why the Swiss army knife hiring model works for AI-era startups.

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startups hiring scaling infrastructure

May 10, 2026

Expensive AI Models Overthink — When Cheaper Models Win

Nicole Königstein (CEO, Quantmate) shares research showing state-of-the-art AI models burn multiples of tokens compared to smaller open-source models, with worse results on some tasks.

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models evaluation production scaling

May 7, 2026

Why Vibe Coding a Multi-Agent System Will Burn Your Budget

Nicole Königstein (CEO, Quantmate) explains why vibe-coded agent systems pass tests but hemorrhage tokens in production — and why you can't outsource the thinking.

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agents production tools scaling

May 4, 2026

Why More AI Agents Won't Fix Your System

Nicole Königstein (CEO, Quantmate) explains why adding agents to a multi-agent system creates the same coordination overhead as adding engineers to a late software project.

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agents architecture production scaling

Apr 27, 2026

Why Monitoring Agents Demand Custom Models: The For-Loop Cost Problem

Understanding the economic layer of web agents and why in-house models became necessary.

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economics models cost optimization scaling

Apr 26, 2026

Screenshots Beat HTML: Why Web Agents Need to See Like Humans

The counterintuitive technical decision that makes general-purpose web automation possible at scale.

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web agents technical architecture visual language models scaling

Apr 24, 2026

How to Scale Web Agents Without Drowning in Context

Why a single agent with 100 tools doesn't work — and how hierarchical architecture fixes it.

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agents architecture scaling context windows

Apr 20, 2026

How ClickUp Uses Merkle Trees to Build AI Agent Memory

Jay Hack (Head of AI, ClickUp) explains the Bitcoin-inspired architecture behind ClickUp's organizational memory system for AI agents.

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infrastructure agents RAG scaling

Apr 14, 2026

How to Scale Expert Data Labeling Without a Sweatshop

Ahmed Rashad (CEO, Perle.ai) on the four-pillar framework for scaling expert annotators — and why paying labelers more produces lower TCO than the cheap-labor model.

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data labeling operations scaling human-in-the-loop

Apr 13, 2026

Building a Knowledge-Based Network: How Experts Scale Without Replacing Themselves

Dara Ladjevardian (CEO, Delphi) on why knowledge networks are fundamentally different from professional networks—and how they enable true expertise scaling.

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networking expertise scaling communities

Apr 7, 2026

Why Vertical Integration Is the Only Way Deep Tech Actually Works

Jorge Colindres (Radical AI) explains why materials companies must own their entire value chain — from discovery through manufacturing — or watch their breakthroughs die at the handoff.

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deep tech materials science vertical integration manufacturing scaling

Apr 5, 2026

Why Book Licensing Is Harder Than Anyone Thought

Trip Adler breaks down the multi-rights complexity that makes AI licensing books fundamentally different from licensing any other media.

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business-operations rights-management scaling publishing

Mar 27, 2026

Why Scaling a Company Gets Harder, Not Easier

John Kim (CEO, Paraform) debunks the founder myth that early-stage is the hardest part. He explains why the real difficulty hits after you've already proven product-market fit.

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founders scaling company-building leadership

Mar 19, 2026

Why Most AI Wrappers Die — And What Survivors Do Differently

Gil Feig (CTO, Merge) explains the infrastructure decisions that separate AI startups that scale from those that don't.

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infrastructure startups scaling AI wrappers

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