Articles on product management, applied AI, and platform delivery.https://pastinica.com/https://pastinica.com/articles/anthropics-killer-product-is-the-meter/https://pastinica.com/articles/anthropics-killer-product-is-the-meter/Anthropic's vertical launches aren't an invasion of the industries they disrupt. They're load building - electric irons for the token meter underneath.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pastinica.com/articles/mpp-agents-can-pay/https://pastinica.com/articles/mpp-agents-can-pay/The Machine Payments Protocol elegantly solves payment mechanics for agents. The harder problem is everything around the payment: trust, judgment, identity, and compliance.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pastinica.com/articles/the-harness-frontier/https://pastinica.com/articles/the-harness-frontier/The jagged frontier has a twin baked in by product design: the same model hits a completely different capability boundary depending on the harness it runs in.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pastinica.com/articles/the-rise-of-the-fragile-expert/https://pastinica.com/articles/the-rise-of-the-fragile-expert/LLMs let a tool-savvy person perform close to an expert's output. The gap between output and retained understanding is fragility - and it's the cost of speed.Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pastinica.com/articles/claude-how-is-my-driving/https://pastinica.com/articles/claude-how-is-my-driving/A Claude Skill that reviews ceremony transcripts against Scrum.org's 8 Stances - a facilitation code review for Scrum Masters.Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pastinica.com/articles/smoke-testing-with-claude-and-playwright/https://pastinica.com/articles/smoke-testing-with-claude-and-playwright/From a browser recording to CI-integrated Playwright smoke tests in roughly two hours - no QA team required.Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pastinica.com/articles/the-radical-acceleration-of-human-capital/https://pastinica.com/articles/the-radical-acceleration-of-human-capital/AI lets employees leapfrog learning curves almost overnight. Companies that stay structurally blind to that multiplier will lose their best people.Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pastinica.com/articles/thrown-into-the-machine/https://pastinica.com/articles/thrown-into-the-machine/AI has made decades of inherited practice suddenly negotiable. That's not only a problem to solve - it's a rare window to think from first principles.Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pastinica.com/articles/the-doordash-problem/https://pastinica.com/articles/the-doordash-problem/AI agents are coming between platforms and their customers. Who survives depends on whether the moat is execution excellence or interface control.Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pastinica.com/articles/four-hours-to-a-custom-standup-dashboard/https://pastinica.com/articles/four-hours-to-a-custom-standup-dashboard/Building an internal standup tool with Claude Code and Streamlit: a meeting timer, auto-loaded action items, and the burndown chart Jira couldn't draw.Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT