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Essays and notes on frontier AI, cloud infrastructure, and the founders building the companies that stand on top of it.
A funding round can close before a company has a path to customers or infrastructure it can scale on. We examine what an AI venture studio supplies beyond the round — and where equity and control enter.
Hohen Ventures8 min read
A coding agent can finish a product-write handler while the storefront access rule is still unresolved. A passing create-path test may leave a cross-tenant write unexamined.
Hohen Ventures9 min read
The primary reader of a commerce storefront is no longer reliably human. Agent-led discovery has outpaced agent-led purchasing — this update tracks where the gap is widest and what separates the businesses absorbing agent-driven demand from those still optimizing for a buyer who stepped back from the purchase loop.
Hohen Ventures12 min read
Einstein wanted to understand everything from the inside out. Bohr trusted what he could observe from the outside in. Their unfinished argument now sits at the center of how we govern autonomous AI: whether control comes from comprehending a system completely or from watching it closely and setting the right boundaries. The answer decides how much autonomy we can safely hand over, how wide the gap between intent and behavior grows, and why the future we're building needs both ways of knowing held in balance.
Hohen Ventures7 min read
Software development is becoming a production line, and the question that decides whether that helps you is where you keep the lights on. Agents can write, test, and ship code with a human reading what matters first, or with no one reading at all. The catch: your real constraint was never how fast you generate code, but how fast you can verify it.
Hohen Ventures10 min read