Do Startups Need a CTO or a CPTO in the Age of AI?
A rigorous framework for deciding whether your startup needs a traditional CTO, a separate CPO, or unified CPTO leadership as AI compresses build speed and amplifies decision risk.
Product Strategy
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Edge AI and Model Lightweighting: Taiwan's Best Shot at Durable Differentiation
Cloud-scale AI will keep growing, but Taiwan's strongest software opportunity may be edge-first systems that combine local chips, lightweight models, and workflow-specific reliability.
The Duolingo Lesson: AI Is Powerful, But Full Replacement Is Still a Bad Operating Model
What Duolingo's last two years reveal about AI-first strategy: massive upside in speed and scale, but real downside when execution looks like replacement instead of augmentation.
The Latency Lie: Why 'An Hour Is Fine' Usually Means Five Minutes
When customers say they can wait an hour, what they usually mean is they can tolerate about five minutes before trust starts decaying. The gap between stated and revealed tolerance is where AI products quietly fail.