Ben Vierck

The Last Wide Rung

For about fifty years, an ordinary person could climb into the middle class on nothing but a trained mind. Knowledge work was the last wide rung on that…

Jun 29 • Ben Vierck

May 2026

The Asymmetry

The gap between what AI can do and what most organizations are doing with it is growing every week. Why the asymmetry matters and what to do about it.

May 13 • Ben Vierck

April 2026

You Can Still Understand the Machine

You could once trace a keystroke to a pixel through a Commodore 64. Modern AI is more understandable than it looks if you peel it one layer at a time…

Apr 17 • Ben Vierck

What Block Gets Right and Wrong About AI-Driven Organizations

Block says AI will end the org chart. The product architecture is worth stealing. The organizational theory has the same blind spot as every…

Apr 14 • Ben Vierck

Revisiting the Limits of RAG: A Conversation with Claude

Fifteen months after calling RAG a dead end, I asked Claude to re-read the argument. It pushed back hard, and it was wrong. Here's the whole…

Apr 13 • Ben Vierck

March 2026

The Cost of Software Is Now Zero

A survival rubric for software and SaaS entrepreneurs in the era of vibe coding, and a look back at the predictions we made fourteen months ago that…

Mar 29 • Ben Vierck

December 2025

Vibe Data Science

We spent 3 weeks collaborating with Claude on a volatility prediction model. 169 training runs, 46 architecture versions, and one breakthrough moment at…

Dec 23, 2025 • Ben Vierck

Voice Input from a Dirt Road

I shipped three features to production while hiking my late father's land in the Ozarks. My only interface was a phone. Voice input was used to debug…

Dec 13, 2025 • Ben Vierck

Two Apps, Fourteen Hours

We built two production Android apps, an encrypted vault and a match-3 game, and shipped them to the Google Play Store in about 14 hours of total…

Dec 1, 2025 • Ben Vierck

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