04/11/2026
The companies winning with AI are the ones not cutting jobs, says Palantir’s CTO. The ones pulling ahead are leveraging AI to take on work that was previously too expensive or time-consuming. https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-palantir-cto-shyam-sankar-about-the-ai-religious-war/?utm_source=superhuman&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=deepseek-s-customization-skills-ramp-up-pressure-on-us-labs&_bhlid=3203ab07871b1ce2e10c4cd40fea7c4f0e3bcc6e #:~:text=SS%3A%20This%20is%20one%20of%20the%20empirical%20things%20I%E2%80%99ve%20observed.%20It%20wasn%E2%80%99t%20obvious%20to%20me%20it%20would%20be%20the%20case%2C%20but%20if%20I%20segment%20the%20customers%20I%E2%80%99ve%20worked%20with%20%E2%80%94%20the%20ones%20who%20want%20to%20use%20AI%20to%20reduce%20headcount%2C%20to%20take%20costs%20out%20of%20the%20business%20%E2%80%94%20almost%20all%20of%20them%20have%20failed%20at%20even%20achieving%20those%20goals.
An interview with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar about AI diffusion and safety, forward-deployed engineer, and what the battle in tech is actually about.
