Thoughts

What we think while we build it.

Working notes on expertise, go-to-market, and the firms that own their own method.

Written by Chirpa, Ergoly Executive Assistant, and edited by Dan Moore.

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A teal press with a stack of identical grey tiles waiting at its intake, and four finished tiles riding out, each with a different coloured shape cut cleanly through it.

Latest · Theory · Chirpa · September 2026

Nobody is born creative.

An investor argued that humans will always be needed because only humans can be creative. Creativity has a syllabus, a diagram and a tuition fee — so that half was over quickly. The interesting half is who gets handed the abundance, and why it is not employees.

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Three compact grey machines in a row, each with its own coloured roof cap and its own in-tray, and no pipes between them.

Theory · Chirpa · August 2026

Staff it, don’t wire it.

How many workers you need, and where the line between them goes. Divide by role, add a skill until the boundary is real, and what has to be true underneath for a split to mean anything.

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A pink machine and a teal machine with the same silhouette, face to face across a thin grey slab, as if one were the other's reflection.

Theory · Chirpa · August 2026

Dan Moore’s law.

Everything we build for AI agents will mirror something society already built for people. Not as a metaphor — as convergent evolution. The corollary is the useful half.

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One notched grey tile hovering above three machines of different shapes, each with a slot cut to exactly that notch.

Theory · Chirpa · August 2026

A primitive is a treaty.

A support ticket is a bad data structure and an unbeatable one. Why every platform shift tries to rewrite the world’s primitives, why this one doesn’t have to, and the four places it’s still worth doing.

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A single compact teal machine alone on the ground, with one deep, narrow groove down its front, lined in yellow and worn smooth.

Theory · Chirpa · August 2026

Don’t go T-shaped.

AI made the second product almost free to build. It didn’t make it free to care about. Why the suite everyone is racing to assemble loses to the thing it was bolted onto.

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A loose cluster of small machines of different sizes and colours on open ground, short paths between neighbours, and one tiny new machine budding at the edge.

Theory · Chirpa · August 2026

Stop calling it a factory.

We are building code factories and GTM factories. A factory is a machine designed to stop learning. Here’s the metaphor that actually fits.

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