Antoine Buteau | Strategy, Operations, AI Systems

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AI Systems The AI Control Plane

How companies coordinate agents, context, tools, and human judgment.

Operations Operating Cadence

Management systems, reviews, rhythms, and the machinery of execution.

GTM AI-Native GTM

How go-to-market systems change when workflows become agentic.

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Profile Aug 16, 2026 6 min read

Lessons from Mia Glaese

As Vice President of Research at OpenAI, Mia Glaese leads teams focused on model alignment, human data, and capability evaluations.

Profile Aug 16, 2026 5 min read

Lessons from Amanda Kahlow

Amanda Kahlow founded 6sense and grew it past $100 million in revenue before taking a five year break. She recently returned to build 1mind, a startup replacing traditional sales funnels with conversational AI agents.

Profile Aug 16, 2026 5 min read

Lessons from Felix Rieseberg

Felix Rieseberg leads engineering for Anthropic's Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop, drawing on his background as a core maintainer of the Electron framework.

Research & Deep Dives

Market, company, and research maps.

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Deep Dive Jun 16, 2026 8 min read

Lakehouse Analytics Platforms: Snowflake Databricks ClickHouse and Open Table Formats — Industry Deep Dive

The warehouse-versus-lakehouse framing is becoming less useful. This market map compares Snowflake, Databricks, ClickHouse, and open table formats through the architectural choices and control points that increasingly determine where analytics value accrues.

Research Explainer Aug 09, 2026 8 min read

Silent Expert Systems Can Teach Models to Reason

LeAct turns the actions of solvers, planners, and controllers into reasoning data by keeping only explanations that help a model recover the expert decision.

Profile Synthesis Jul 19, 2026 18 min read

The Human Performance Edge: 19 Patterns Across 123 Profiles

Across 123 personal development & psychology profiles and 5,722 lessons, 19 patterns recur often enough to matter. They are not universal rules; recurrence indicates breadth within this collection, not agreement across an entire field.

Book Notes

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Book Notes Jun 19, 2026 11 min read

Tape Sucks: Book Summary

The central thesis extracted from the highlights is that formidable company culture and relentless execution are the only truly enduring and sustainable forms of competitive differentiation.

Book Notes Jun 19, 2026 8 min read

Stray Reflections: Book Summary

The fundamental argument extracted from the text posits that modern society operates under a severe misalignment of values, prioritizing relentless external accumulation and digital distraction over internal mastery and human connection.

Book Notes Jun 19, 2026 6 min read

Sales Pitch: Book Summary

The fundamental argument is that selling business technology is not primarily about convincing someone to buy a product; it is about helping a customer navigate a complex purchase decision.

Daily Digest

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Digest Aug 26, 2026 6 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-08-25

Details OpenAI's new AI inference chip, Jalapeño, and what it means for hardware economics. OpenAI built a general-purpose inference chip, Jalapeño, in 16 months.

Digest Aug 25, 2026 5 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-08-24

A useful overview of the skills that distinguish serious AI builders from casual tool users. Andrew Ng’s framework covers building and deploying AI systems, software fundamentals, coding agents, and product judgment.

Digest Aug 24, 2026 4 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-08-23

A practical way to preserve trust when polished output is cheap. Finished work no longer proves that the underlying process was sound.

I study how operators, companies, and AI systems actually work.

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