Category: Will’s Take
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Behind the Ghost: How the Last Will’s Take Was Written and Why I Buried the Wink
A behind-the-scenes look at how Will Tygart used Claude as a ghost writer, why the wink was buried inside the piece, and what it means for the readers sharp enough to find it.
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The Diminishing Returns of Imagining Outcomes — and Why AI Changes the Math
There is a point where imagining outcomes stops paying off and execution takes over. Will Tygart on the 60% threshold, where planning becomes comfort-seeking, and how AI compresses the entire curve.
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The Hidden Tax in Agentic Commerce
Google, Shopify, AP2, Stripe — every node in the UCP stack monetizes the handshake. Will breaks down who’s collecting rent on each transaction and what the
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Cursor vs Claude Code: The Browser Wars Are Back
Cursor raised $2.3B at a $29.3B valuation. Claude Code went from zero to most-loved developer tool in eight months. But pricing and architecture tell a different story — and history suggests the free, autonomous option eventually wins.
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Checkout Gets Completely Reinvented
Stripe’s new agentic payment infrastructure removes the final friction point in ecommerce. When AI agents handle checkout instead of humans, conversion rates jump 4x and cart abandonment drops 15-30%. A $3-5 trillion market opportunity by 2030 is being built right now.
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Apple Intelligence Is Dead, and Nobody Cares
Apple’s AI strategy has collapsed. While ChatGPT doubled its user base and Claude captured enterprise AI, Apple shipped notification summaries and delayed Siri by 18 months. The gap between the promise and the product is strategic failure.
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When CEOs Kill Open Standards on Podcasts: The Perplexity-MCP Problem
Perplexity dropped MCP two weeks after launching products that do the exact same thing through a proprietary API. This is not a technical disagreement. It is a competitive maneuver. And it raises a question nobody in AI is asking: where is the line between a CEO sharing a technical opinion and a CEO strategically undermining…
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The Cowork Box: What Happens to the Power Grid When AI Moves to Your Desk
If the Cowork model wins, AI execution moves from data centers drawing 300-450 watts per GPU to edge devices drawing 15-65 watts. The grid math changes. So does the product opportunity — imagine industry-specific Cowork appliances shipping with pre-loaded skill packages for hospitals, law firms, and schools.
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Claude Cowork Is Anthropic’s Edge Computing Play — And It Changes the Entire Agent Stack
Anthropic moved the execution layer from their servers to your laptop. When you combine that architectural decision with MCP, Google’s UCP, OpenAI’s ACP, and the Agent SDK, you get the clearest picture yet of where agentic computing is heading.
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The Contractor Who Doesn’t Need a Website Anymore
UCP-enabled discovery means trades can be found and booked by AI agents without SEO or a modern website. For the restoration contractor who never cracked c