One or two essays a month on the agentic web, real enterprise AI data, and what it takes to scale engineering organizations — written by a CTO who has been building AI systems for twenty years. No filler, no link dumps.
What you’ll read first
The APILama Tech Manifesto — the spine of everything here: automate the mundane, build pan-human infrastructure, aim AI at understanding the universe.
From DeepGraphs to MCP — how my PhD research predicted the agentic web a decade early, and what it got wrong.
The AI ROI Reality Check — notes from a closed-door session with 45 global CIOs and CTOs on what enterprise AI actually returns.
The 20x Team Manifesto — why small, elite, AI-powered teams outperform organizations ten times their size.
Who writes this
I’m Michael Petychakis — CTO at Dialectica, where I lead AI transformation. Before that I spent a decade scaling ORFIUM from 5 people to 700. Stanford MBA, W3C contributor, TEDx speaker, 25+ research publications. I’ve been obsessed with what machines can do since before it was cool — and writing about it here since 2015.
Prefer the feed? I’m on LinkedIn and X — but email is where the full essays live. λ(0) → 700