The briefing
Pace layers: why parts of AI move at different speeds
Some parts of the AI stack change every week. Others take a decade and billions of dollars to shift. Drew Breunig borrows the idea of pace layers to explain why that matters: the fast layers grab the headlines, but the slow layers set the constraints and often hold the durable value. A short keynote on telling the froth from the foundations, and on where in the stack lasting advantage is likely to settle.
About Drew Breunig
Drew Breunig is the CEO and co-founder of Cmpnd, where he works on DSPy and helps teams build reliable AI applications. He is editing The Context Engineering Handbook for O'Reilly Media, and advises the Overture Maps Foundation on its Global Entity Reference System, which makes it easy to join geospatial datasets. Previously he ran strategy, data science and strategic client projects at PlaceIQ (acquired by Precisely), and with Nicholas Felton co-founded Reporter, an award-winning app. He writes about AI, data, geo and culture at dbreunig.com.