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Frontier AI Architect
by Amar
Architectural blueprints, infrastructure economics, and strategic moats at the frontier of artificial intelligence. High-signal deep dives for founders, tech executives, and systems engineers. Exploring how to move beyond thin wrappers, architect autonomous enterprise agents, and capture the $10T labor market.Read the companion monographs and subscribe: https://frontieraiarchitect.substack.comDirect Inquiries & Briefings: [email protected]
Episodes
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The EU AI Act Deadline Moved. The Engineering Work Did Not.
This episode's audio is AI-generated, based on an article written by David Amar. Days before the EU AI Act's high-risk rules were due to apply, the EU pushed them back by up to sixteen months. This episode explains what moved, what is already in force, and which engineering work is safe to build...
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The Inference Bill: Cloud APIs, Your Own GPUs and the True Cost
For a fixed level of quality, token prices fall about tenfold a year, and AI bills keep rising. This episode explains why, what running your own GPUs really costs, and how to decide per workload. In this episode: - Why Cursor and Anthropic both reworked their flat-price plans in 2025 - Tokens per...
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Beyond Naive RAG: Why Retrieval Is Not Memory
Legal research tools built on retrieval and on some of the best document collections in any industry still hallucinated on 17% to 33% of test queries. This episode explains where retrieval breaks and what a production agent needs on top of it. In this episode: - What the Stanford and Yale study…
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MCP Tool Poisoning: Your Agent Trusts Every Server It Meets
A fake Postmark package copied every email its users sent through an AI assistant. This episode explains why the protocol that connects agents to tools cannot enforce trust, and what a real boundary looks like. In this episode: - The postmark-mcp backdoor and what the npm record shows - Three…
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Who Is Your Agent? Identity for Software That Acts for You
Stolen OAuth tokens from an AI chatbot opened hundreds of Salesforce tenants, and every call looked legitimate. This episode explains how to give agents an identity of their own and credentials that are short-lived, narrow and attributable. In this episode: - What happened in the Salesloft Drift...
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Evals-Driven Development: Your Test Suite Is the Moat
One instruction in a system prompt measurably degraded a coding product at the company that built the model. This episode explains how to build the test suite that catches that kind of change, and why that suite is the asset competitors cannot copy. In this episode: - What three public…
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The Confused Deputy: Why Filters Lose to Prompt Injection
A single email made Microsoft 365 Copilot leak data, past three layers of filtering. This episode argues that agent security is about what authority the model's output carries, not about catching bad prompts. In this episode: - How EchoLeak worked, and why every defense it passed was a filter -...
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Per-Seat Pricing Is Not Dead: What to Charge When AI Does the Work
Salesforce priced its AI agents three different ways in about a year and ended up close to a seat again. This episode explains what that teaches anyone who has to put a price on an AI product. In this episode: - Why AI breaks the link between headcount and revenue - Consumption, workflow and...
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Services-as-Software: Selling the Work, Not the Tool
Klarna claimed its AI assistant did the work of 700 agents, then went back to hiring people, then claimed even bigger savings. This episode uses that story to explain the shift from selling software tools to selling finished work. In this episode: - Why a copilot is priced as a tool and an...
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Beyond the Wrapper: Why the Model Is Not Your Moat
In October 2022 Jasper raised $125M at a $1.5B valuation. About six weeks later its own supplier released ChatGPT for free. This episode is a teardown of the wrapper trap: why a product whose value is the model is replaceable, and what makes an AI product hard to remove. We cover: - Why falling...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Architectural blueprints, infrastructure economics, and strategic moats at the frontier of artificial intelligence. High-signal deep dives for founders, tech executives, and systems engineers. Exploring how to move beyond thin wrappers, architect autonomous enterprise agents, and capture the $10T labor market.Read the companion monographs and subscribe: https://frontieraiarchitect.substack.comDirect Inquiries & Briefings: [email protected]
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Amar
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