Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar

The prevailing narrative in tech assumes AI is making software engineers dramatically more productive. That may hold true if you only measure code generation, but it falls apart when you look at software delivery. We are confusing the speed of typing code with actual system velocity. For commodity, CRUD-heavy work where “good enough” truly suffices,Continue reading “The Verification Era: What Happens When Code Becomes Abundant”

When the Industry Reorganizes Around Your Choices Every advantage built across this book, permission, control surface, synchronization, context loop, still operates inside a market whose rules were written by someone else. The final move available to a company holding all of that is to stop playing inside the existing rules and start becoming the referenceContinue reading “The Architectural Default”

How Strategic Advantage Compounds After Architecture Gets Copied Two companies can identify the same binding constraint, build the same permission architecture, and synchronize their clocks at the same speed. One still pulls away over time while the other becomes a commodity. The defining trait of a context loop is that operating the business changes theContinue reading “The Context Loop”