Long Game / Pawel Dolega

The Road or the Hairball
The walls came down. Pave the road, or live in the sprawl
Jul 22 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾
Good Riddance to the Grind
We're mourning the wrong part of the job
Jul 9 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾
The AI hype is only part of the EU energy story
AI is the accelerant, but the fire was already burning
Jul 1 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

June 2026

Sovereignty Has a Power Bill
The part where Europe gets the invoice
Jun 25 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾
The Kill Switch
What a letter to Anthropic taught Europe about its own AI
Jun 17 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾
Everyone Is a Builder Now
The shadow IT deluge
Jun 11 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

May 2026

On the Inversion of Practices
How Software Industry Inverts Every Good Idea
May 27 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾
The Triad Coordination Tax
Engineering is collapsing into product. So is design, so is middle management. The coordination tax between them is shrinking.
May 22 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾
Play it again, Sam
Cloud didn’t kill the database administrator function. AI isn’t killing software engineering.
May 14 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾
The Floor Is Falling
When the software industry enters Extremistan
May 6 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

April 2026

AI subscriptions are on borrowed time
Token prices are falling but your AI bill won't
Apr 26 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾
It’s Just Semantics
Agreement on things nobody defined
Apr 15 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾
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