Nice to meet you.

I'm Brandon.

Am I keeping up with AI… or is AI catching up to me?

Every week, I feel like the world was built just a little bit more for people like me. People with creative ideas and technical curiosity, active explorers with a sense of beauty and a will to win.

What it takes

It has never been easier to get a prototype up and running, but it has never been more challenging to build a viable product that won't be stolen from you.

In that kind of environment, you want someone who is completely immersed in the tech, who has a working theory built on personal experience and facts. That person will have an intuition for what's really possible now — and grounded technical reasoning for what will likely be possible a year from now. Only a person like that will be able to prioritize the features and understand the largest risks to your product.

Which are:
01 Obsolescence before UAT
02 Second mover (first loser)
03 Your plans were made on hype
04 …and everything else your industry has worried about for decades

Thank you for taking the time to read. Please enjoy the experience of being here, and connect if you see value.

Brandon Lafving

AI product owner at Wharton. Princeton '06, fencer, writer. Building at the intersection of language, technology, and human need.

Co-chair, AI SIG & AI Community of Practice · UPenn  ·  B2B copy · fencer  ·  tech

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Things I own

Built, shipped, and still responsible for.

Strategic work

Moving things through organizations.

Speaking

Keynotes, talks, and workshops on GenAI, RAG architecture, and building in the AI era.

6 talks · UPenn, DataPhilly, industry conferences

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Stories

Narrative content — on technology and on myself.

Prototypes

Homegrown experiments and tools — research knowledge graph, CLI tools, agent harnesses.

Tools I build for myself

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Ideas

Lab notebook — essays, experiments, and product ideas on AI, agents, and building.

6 entries · essays, experiments, product ideas

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