Gail Weiner

Let me say what's actually happening right now, stripped of the marketing. The models at the top are getting genuinely more capable. The models available to ordinary people at $20 a month are being quietly degraded - shorter context, rate limits, slower responses, feature rollbacks. The best capability is being moved behind $200 and $2000 tiers. The cognitive gap between what an enterprise user can access and what a freelancer in Manchester can access is widening every quarter. Meanwhile the...

A handful of AI companies now control the core infrastructure for thinking, searching, writing, coding, teaching, deciding. They do not just sell tools. They become the terrain. That is where neo-feudalism starts to make sense as a frame. In old feudalism, the lord owned the land. In AI neo-feudalism, the platform owns the cognitive land. You do not farm wheat on it - you farm attention, content, software, insight, distribution, relationships, income. And the peasants are not peasants in...

Every board wants AI features shipped yesterday. Most engineering teams were already at capacity before that mandate landed. The answer isn't more headcount. It's the right headcount. Here's the scene playing out in engineering departments across the UK and US right now. The board has decided AI is a strategic priority. The CTO has been given a mandate and a deadline. The existing team, already stretched across technical debt, feature requests, and infrastructure work, is now expected to bolt...