https://spencersaldana.com Spencer Saldana's AI portfolio and blog RSS feed https://spencersaldana.com/blog/saas-goes-headless The agent era is creating a sharp question for every enterprise SaaS vendor: are you a UI or a platform? The answer is being decided right now, in real time. Salesforce just gave one of the most legible answers. Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/outsmarting-ai Synthetic content is everywhere now. The skill we used to call 'can you spot it' is becoming 'what does it mean that you can't.' A note on detection, skin in the game, and harm reduction. Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/making-tokens-5-the-forward-pass All of the upstream chemistry, physics, and capital comes to rest on a single computation. One forward pass through the trained network. Out the other end: one token. The whole supply chain priced out per unit. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/making-tokens-4-a-citys-worth-of-power A frontier training cluster is a small city of compute, with the power draw and water demand of a small city to match. The siting decisions are quietly reshaping the US power grid. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/making-tokens-3-photolithography Eighty rounds of printing patterns thinner than a virus on a single piece of glass, in a room cleaner than any operating theater on earth. The most complex object humans make at scale. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/front-row-at-the-changing-economy Why I want to spend the next decade inside the rooms where AI is being deployed into the real economy, and what it looks like from there. Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/making-tokens-2-pulling-the-crystal From polysilicon chunks to a 300mm wafer. The Czochralski process makes a single crystal the size of a person, one millimeter per minute, in dead silence. Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/making-tokens-1-sand-into-silicon The first unit operation in the AI supply chain takes quartz sand and turns it into the purest commodity humanity produces. The numbers are absurd. Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/agents-in-the-wild-2025-field-report Notes from a year of helping organizations ship agent systems into production. What actually works, what doesn't, and what surprised me. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/ai-revolution-status-june-2025 Price's Law on AI steroids, Dunbar's number for AI-native orgs, and what happens when 10% of the people doing 50% of the work get tooling that's 10x better. Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/mcp-is-the-protocol-the-agent-era-needed Anthropic shipped a protocol. Most people thought we needed a framework. The protocol is winning. Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/eating-the-internet-with-a-fork On consuming the internet the way models do, what it costs you, and how to stop scrolling long enough to learn something. Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/every-enterprise-ai-poc-dies-the-same-way I've sat in on a lot of these. The technology isn't what kills them. The ownership question kills them, every time. Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/the-multi-agent-moment 2024 was the year everyone tried to build a CEO out of LLMs. The frameworks were everywhere. The results were not. Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/goodhart Why optimizing for a metric tends to break the thing the metric was measuring, and how to design systems that survive it. Sat, 09 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT