Enterprise Architecture
4 posts on this topic — practical guidance from Shawn Livermore on fractional CTO, AI, and technology leadership.
Enterprise Software Testing When AI Writes Most of the Code
When AI generates a significant portion of the codebase, traditional testing assumptions need updating — not because testing gets easier, but because the failure modes change.
Read post →Frontier AI Access Is Becoming Rationed. Your Vendor Decision Just Changed.
Tom Tunguz's August 31 analysis of the Salesforce-Anthropic deal and government model rationing identifies a structural shift: at the frontier, access is now the scarce resource, not price. The enterprise vendor evaluation process hasn't caught up.
Read post →Stripe Bought the AI Router. Enterprise Architecture Just Got More Complex.
Stripe's $7 billion acquisition of OpenRouter puts AI model routing inside financial services infrastructure. For enterprises using both products, that's a vendor concentration question worth examining before it becomes a compliance audit.
Read post →Enterprise Software Strategy in the AI Era: What Changes and What Stays the Same
AI changes the economics of building, buying, and extending software. The decisions at the top of the portfolio — what to invest in, what to buy, what to automate — are more consequential in the AI era, not less.
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