# Lucas Dickey

> Product leader and serial founder. Currently a Product Manager on Stripe Atlas.
> Previously founder/CEO of DeepCast, co-founder & CPTO of Fernish, CPO of Azibo,
> and an early PM on Amazon's digital music business. Writes and builds at the
> intersection of AI agents, developer surfaces, and company formation.

This site publishes Markdown alongside every HTML page so that agents can read it
directly. Append `.md` to a blog post URL to get its source.

Pages render in one of two presentations, selectable per-request with a query
parameter: `?theme=terminal` or `?theme=marketer`. The syllabus additionally
takes `?view=graph` or `?view=list`. The content is identical either way.

## Core

- [Full CV (Markdown)](https://www.lucasdickey.com/cv.md): Complete professional history, projects, writing, and public work.
- [Homepage](https://www.lucasdickey.com): Terminal-styled index of everything below.
- [Writing index (Markdown)](https://www.lucasdickey.com/blog.md): All published posts with excerpts.
- [AI & Civilization syllabus (Markdown)](https://www.lucasdickey.com/syllabus.md): The full reading syllabus, with every reading, its status, and the graph structure behind it.

## Writing

- [Staying Close to the Metal: Why I Build (and Rebuild) Everything](https://www.lucasdickey.com/blog/staying-close-to-metal-why-i-build.md): Why spend personal time rebuilding functionality that already exists? Staying close to the metal—putting on every stakeholder's hat—keeps technical intuition sharp and first-principles thinking alive.
- [AI will collapse the talent stack](https://www.lucasdickey.com/blog/ai-will-collapse-the-talent-stack.md): Claire Vo's insight from Lenny & Friends Summit is finally here: AI will collapse the traditional talent stack, letting polymaths rise and enabling individuals to do work that once required specialized teams.
- [Expanding My Aperture: Learning Through Doing in the Agentic Coding Era](https://www.lucasdickey.com/blog/expanding-aperture-agentic-coding-era.md): Exploring software development across different environments, frameworks, and modalities through the lens of agentic coding and continuous learning.
- [Capital Destruction or Value Creation? A Friday Thought on AI](https://www.lucasdickey.com/blog/capital-destruction-or-value-creation.md): Peak bubble? Real value? We're in a moment where AI valuations are soaring while veterans from OpenAI can't answer basic questions. A collaborative human+AI exploration of whether we're building scaffolding or just burning capital.
- [The Stasis Problem: Why Companies Stop Right-Sizing After Growth](https://www.lucasdickey.com/blog/the-stasis-problem.md): Why do mature organizations maintain bloated headcount even after products reach peak innovation? Exploring the organizational inertia that prevents right-sizing and how AI might finally provide the catalyst for change.
- [Beyond Your Network: How LLMs Can Expand Your Job Search Horizons](https://www.lucasdickey.com/blog/ai-assisted-job-search-beyond-network-bias.md): After 7 years in founder roles, I turned to ChatGPT to help identify career opportunities outside my usual network. Here's what happened when I asked AI to map unexplored sectors and companies.
- [Domain-Specific Foundation Models vs. Frontier LLMs: Where's the Enterprise ROI?](https://www.lucasdickey.com/blog/dsfms-vs-frontier-llms-enterprise-roi.md): What returns more enterprise value over the next 2-3 years: massive frontier LLMs or purpose-built domain-specific foundation models? The math on medical DSFMs might surprise you.

## Optional

- [Reading list](https://www.lucasdickey.com/books): Books read and queued.
- [Toys](https://www.lucasdickey.com/toys): Small interactive experiments.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/lucasdickey): Source for the projects listed in the CV.