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Essays, briefs, comparisons and letters from George Pu. Original publication dates determine the order; a correction or a newly added web copy does not make older writing new.
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Newest original writing first. Editorial notes remain with each article.
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I'm Afraid to Take a Vacation
Start with the gap between owning a company and having the freedom to step away from it.
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My Coding Agent Shouldn't Have a Boss
Claude Code is one of the best products I use. That is exactly why realizing how little of it I controlled became uncomfortable.
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I didn't want to do this
Read the letter and its editorial context.
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The parts of AI I could no longer delegate
Then consider what a founder needs to understand before trusting work delegated to AI.
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I am not afraid of failure. I am afraid of becoming irrelevant.
Failure feels survivable. The harder fear is spending an important period in history building something that doesn't matter - and not knowing whether that…
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I have stopped knowing what a productive day feels like
A personal account of producing more while finding it harder to know when the day’s work is enough.
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The company is moving faster than I am
Vinci didn't exist 30 days ago. The company has already changed shape several times. I'm not sure I've processed any of it.
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30 Days, Six Products, Two Dead Models, and the Part That Didn't Work
On July 9 we shipped a model my engineering lead trained. On July 12 I took it off the product. Six products in 30 days is the headline. That decision is…
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What a 3-Person Team Actually Pays for AI: July 2026
In the first week of July I spent over $5,000 coding through one company's API and couldn't tell you what I got for it. Here's what we actually pay now -…
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The Week I Found Out We Have No Moat
Read the letter and its editorial context.
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Six Months After My Post-AI Manifesto
A July look back at George’s post-AI manifesto and how his work changed.
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The Day I Killed Our Product Strategy
A July letter introducing George’s decision to change the company’s product strategy.