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Alvar Laigna

Notes & essays

Writing.

Field notes on building companies, shipping technology and the messy human bits in between. No newsletter pop-ups — just text that respects your time.

Ai Jun 2026 · 10 min read

The AI-Ready Enterprise: Preparing Your Business for Autonomous Agents

AI-readiness is the practice of designing systems that AI agents can use autonomously, securely, and predictably. Learn how to prepare your business for autonomous agents.

AI Jun 2026 · 5 min read

How the EU Can Survive the US-China Tech Cold War

The era of open, global access to frontier AI models is ending. The question is no longer how the EU will regulate AI, but whether it will have any sovereign AI left to regulate.

AI Jun 2026 · 9 min read

AI Where It Belongs: The Riigihanked.eu Case Study

A case study on building Riigihanked.eu. Discover how we combine deterministic software with AI to help entrepreneurs, managers, and government officials navigate Estonian public procurement.

AI Jun 2026 · 27 min read

Stop Treating Claude Like a Chatbot: A Practical Field Guide to Agentic Software Work

A practical guide for developers, product builders, and solo entrepreneurs on using Claude Code, Claude Design, Gemini, Antigravity, Codex, Playwright, Gauge, Pydantic, Qlty, and disciplined agentic workflows to plan, build, review, secure, and ship software.

AI Jun 2026 · 20 min read

Vibe Coding Is Dead. Spec-Driven AI Engineering Is the Future.

AI agents can now write serious code, but mature engineering teams still need specifications, task boundaries, security review, tests, project memory, hooks, and human ownership.