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Why Claude Won’t Replace Your Engineering Team (Yet)

You’ve probably seen a few founders on X and LinkedIn who confidently say the same thing: “We don’t need engineers anymore because AI has replaced them.” Claude’s shiny new $100–$200 “Max” tiers promise giant context windows, endless chat sessions, and the fantasy of running a startup without a single human developer. It sounds seductive: why hire a team when you can just dump your entire codebase into an AI, crank out features, and move on? But here’s the truth: this is wishful thinking.

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Sep

2025

How A2A Protocol Will Change Regulated Industries

You’ve probably seen the viral video where two AI agents start talking in English, then realize they’re both machines and switch to their own language made of strange sounds and signals. That was a live demo of A2A, the agent-to-agent protocol. Some immediately imagined apocalyptic “machines speaking to each other” scenarios. But if we strip away the sci-fi layer, this way of interaction has very real implications: it can radically simplify and at the same time complicate how businesses in regulated industries operate.

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Sep

2025

FinOps Misused: You Focus on Efficiency at the Expense of Effectiveness

If you are in that group (or your partners or clients), you instinctively turn to FinOps with one goal: to bring the bill down. That reaction makes sense, but it also traps FinOps in the role of cost policing. What you need to ask is whether every dollar spent is driving outcomes that the business can feel.

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Sep

2025

FinOps vs DevOps: A Startup Guide to Scaling Cloud with Speed and Accountability

You know the startup mantra: move fast, ship features, listen to users, and iterate quickly. The cloud makes this possible: no upfront hardware costs, instant scaling, and tools that let small teams operate like big ones. This speed is mainly powered by DevOps practices, which bring development and operations closer together to deploy software faster and more reliably.

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Sep

2025

Your “Dream Team” Breaks Your Product-Market Fit

The “all-in” team is a common startup ideal: intense, highly skilled, and fully committed. But before product-market fit (PMF), this model often generates organizational drag instead of forward motion. Execution accelerates, but often in the wrong direction.

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Sep

2025

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Andrew Korolov

Founder & Solution Architect

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