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Julien Simon

Julien Simon

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May 22

Lobby, Levy, Legislate

How Mistral is trying to convert a perishable contact list into permanent law.

Lobby, Levy, Legislate

Julien Simon

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Apr 14

The Quiet Tax on Parallel AI Coding Work — and Why I Built Canopy

Claude Code wants you to do one thing at a time. Real engineering doesn’t work that way.

The Quiet Tax on Parallel AI Coding Work — and Why I Built Canopy

Julien Simon

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Apr 9

Open From Both Sides

Chinese proliferation, trivial alignment removal, and the week the safety moat didn’t hold.

Open From Both Sides

Julien Simon

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Apr 3

What to Buy for Local LLMs (April 2026)

A practitioner’s guide to inference and training, why they’re not the same machine, and why you may still need cloud

What to Buy for Local LLMs (April 2026)

Julien Simon

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Mar 28

Reverse-Engineering The Apollo 11 Code with AI

I used Claude to crack 40,000 lines of 1960s assembly for a computer with 4 KB of RAM. No code is too old for AI.

Reverse-Engineering The Apollo 11 Code with AI

Julien Simon

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Mar 16

Still Missing Critical Pieces

Perplexity, Cloudflare, and Y Combinator just confirmed the enterprise gaps I identified last summer. The roadmap hasn’t caught up.

Still Missing Critical Pieces

Julien Simon

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Mar 13

Open Source, Closed Orbit

The Hardware Monopolist’s Guide to Owning Open Source

Open Source, Closed Orbit

Julien Simon

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Mar 7

Access, Disable, Destroy

Every layer of your AI infrastructure has an off switch. No existing risk framework addresses any of them.

Access, Disable, Destroy

Julien Simon

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Feb 26

Two Sovereign Clouds, One Legal Wall

They chose opposite architectures. They arrived at the same legal endpoint.

Two Sovereign Clouds, One Legal Wall

Julien Simon

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Feb 14

Alphabet’s 100-Year Bond: A Bet on Immortality

That’s not a financial instrument. That’s a statement of faith.

Alphabet’s 100-Year Bond: A Bet on Immortality

Julien Simon

Julien Simon

AI Operating Partner @ Fortino Capital (www.fortinocapital.com) - Ex-Arcee AI, Hugging Face, AWS - Tech, Cloud, AI, VC, PE, Investing - https://www.airealist.ai

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