Archive - Software Synthesis

The Future Of Software Engineering with Anthropic

With Ash from Anthropic and Sivesh from Balderton Capital

Mar 16

Vertical Integration: Model vs Product Companies

The False Dichotomy of Model Vs App Layer

Dec 16, 2024 • Akash Bajwa

Second-order effects of AI in Vertical SaaS

How AI affects founders in vertical SaaS markets

May 15, 2023 • Akash Bajwa

The Evolution Of Enterprise Software

Systems Of Records And Action Give Way To Agentic Systems

May 26, 2025 • Akash Bajwa

Forward Deployed Engineers: A Means To An End For AI Startups

Capturing Business Logic And Expert Reasoning

Feb 3, 2025 • Akash Bajwa

The Post-R1 World

AI Economics Have Irreversibly Changed

Jan 27, 2025 • Akash Bajwa

Implications Of Agent Pricing

Nov 4, 2024 • Akash Bajwa

Application Software Is Dead, Again

Data Fabrics, Agent Labs, Moving Up And Down The Stack

Nov 17, 2025 • Akash Bajwa

The Founder GTM Handbook

How Databricks, Stripe, Notion and more built their GTM engine

Dec 24, 2024 • Akash Bajwa

Breakneck, Five-Year Plans and Bubbles

Sep 8, 2025 • Akash Bajwa

Systems Of Record in the AI age: ServiceNow, SAP and Workday

Goal: AI Operating System Of The Enterprise

May 12, 2025 • Akash Bajwa

The State Of MCP

July 2025 Pulse Check

Jul 1, 2025 • Akash Bajwa

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