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. How to reason about per-token energy and cost without hiding the assumptions. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/making-tokens-4-a-citys-worth-of-power Power, cooling, and capital around a training cluster. An H100 scenario with the assumptions and units visible. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spencersaldana.com/blog/making-tokens-3-photolithography Repeatedly patterning circuits on silicon. The process control, resource accounting, and yield behind an AI accelerator. 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 single-crystal wafer. Seed growth, slicing, and the mass balance behind chip manufacturing. 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 a semiconductor feedstock with tightly controlled impurities. The purification is the product. 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