Tag: Systems of Execution

Sep 16
The Death of Thin Wrappers: Why Defensibility Lies in Workflow Orchestration

During the explosive opening chapter of the generative artificial intelligence boom, a wave of software startups achieved historic user acquisition velocity by building what the industry quickly termed Thin Wrappers. The engineering playbook was straightforward: register an API account with a foundation model provider, author a clever system prompt, wrap the model’s conversational text stream […]