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How to Hire an Engineer Who Can Out-Reason the Agent
The skill you used to interview for is now the cheapest thing on your team. Here's the one question that separates an engineer who thinks from one who…
Jul 16
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Irwan Setiawan
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Why I Built perchd for the Agentic Era
Agentic coding gave me eight branches at once. It couldn't give me a second pair of eyes. So I built the tool for that, and left out the feature…
Jul 1
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Irwan Setiawan
June 2026
The Door Was Open. The Room Wasn't.
A few weeks ago I said accounting's AI wedge was wide open. Then a company walked through it and shut down. Here's what open doesn't buy you.
Jun 22
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Irwan Setiawan
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May 2026
Accounting Just Got Its Copilot Moment
86% of tax professionals already use AI weekly. The shape change that hit software engineering just reached accounting.
May 29
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Irwan Setiawan
2
The smartest MVP I've seen this year had no backend. Everything was hardcoded.
Customers don't buy your backend. They buy the experience.
May 12
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Irwan Setiawan
89% of Enterprise AI Agents Never Reach Production. Here's the 11% Playbook.
Stanford just released the number. The four big AI labs just shipped runtimes to fix it. Better infrastructure isn't the answer.
May 4
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Irwan Setiawan
April 2026
The Million-User Tax
I audited a startup's AWS stack. $2,300/month. 200 users. Here's what it cost them, and how to stop paying it
Apr 20
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Irwan Setiawan
They Vibe-Coded an Enterprise App. It Lasted Five Minutes.
AI built the product. Nobody checked if it would survive deployment.
Apr 9
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Irwan Setiawan
The Struggle Was the Point
You weren't built by the answers. You were built by the search.
Apr 7
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Irwan Setiawan
1
You're Renting AI. Here's How to Own It.
Most people only know one way to pay for AI. There's another — and it changes everything.
Apr 1
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Irwan Setiawan
March 2026
93% of Engineers Use AI. Productivity Went Up 10%. Something Doesn't Add Up.
Everyone's diagnosing why AI only gives 10%. Nobody's explaining why the top quartile gets 2x.
Mar 19
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Irwan Setiawan
2
Do It Anyways
Three words that built every startup, survived every failure, and got me through every 2AM decision
Mar 12
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Irwan Setiawan
1
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