Appliances, Factories, Grids

Own the chips or the customers. Everything else is a footnote.

January 14, 2026 · 5 min · mercurialsolo

Model-Adjacent Products, Part 1: The Architecture

The physics of production AI: latency engineering that keeps humans in the loop. Token economics that don’t bankrupt you.

January 9, 2026 · 5 min · mercurialsolo

Model-Adjacent Products: A Builder's Guide

A 6-part series on building production AI systems. The foundation model is the CPU; your product is the computer you build around it.

January 9, 2026 · 2 min · mercurialsolo