Field Notes
Field Notes
Occasional reports from the shop floor. Longer reads, real sources, no fluff.
Field Report · MIT NANDA "GenAI Divide" · State of AI in Business 2025
Everyone adopted AI. Almost nobody got paid.
MIT's Project NANDA studied 300+ enterprise AI deployments. The few who saw returns started in the back office.
Read the report Field Report · Market Consolidation · 2015–2026The quiet death of small software
Independent software didn't lose on product. It lost to a playbook: subsidize, absorb, strip, extract.
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