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The Engineering Software Apocalypse Was Inevitable

Six months of evidence on the question every infrastructure PM is half-asking: are we watching engineering software disappear into AI agents? Short read: not disappearing. Becoming a piece. The accountability moat says why.

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Building the Transportation AI Policy Tracker: the state DOT layer

48 of 52 state DOTs inherit their AI rule from somewhere else. Only 7 extend it to consultants.

AI singularity and construction infrastructure bottleneck

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The Smartest Revolution in History Can't Find Enough People to Build It

The story nobody is telling is how the construction industry will reshape AI.

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The proposal machine: From RAG to context engineering

Most firms responding to an RFP have done the work before. The ones that win are faster at proving it. This issue covers RAG, MCP, and context engineering — and what civil engineering firms can build right now to stop losing proposals they should have won.

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Anthropic launched Cowork. Microsoft quietly built it into M365 before most firms noticed

Infrastructure Catalyst Issue #8 | March 09, 2026 Anthropic launched Cowork on January 12, 2026 as a research preview. Software stocks dropped $285 billion the same day. Microsoft had their own version embedded inside Microsoft 365 57 days later. Most infrastructure firms have not caught up to either announcement yet. That

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I Built an AI Product for Infrastructure PMs in 6 Days. Ask These 5 Questions Before You Do.

Infrastructure Catalyst Issue #7 | February 24, 2026 In February, Anthropic and Cerebral Valley hosted Built with Opus 4.6, a global virtual hackathon marking one year since Claude Code launched. Over 13,000 people applied for 500 spots, putting the acceptance rate under 4%, roughly on par with Y Combinator.

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I Stopped Using ChatGPT. Here's Why.

ChatGPT's market share dropped 22 points in 12 months. I switched to Claude a year ago and haven't looked back. Here's what shifted in 2025 and why it matters for infrastructure PMs.