Building with AI isn't enough — the moat is what you build

Daniela Pereira writes about the trap that's catching everyone right now. The new companies are all using the same models, the same APIs, the same tools. The ones who'll actually last are the ones who figured out the craft — the parts that aren't about which model you pick, but how you put it to work.

This is the kind of piece that lands because it's about the work itself, not a vendor pitch. The moat isn't a better model. It's the recipe — the way you've learned to make things that work, the ones you can't just copy.

Why this matters for us: the craft we've been building with our own hands — the routing, the loops, the small decisions no one else is writing down — that's the real moat, not the models we're paying for.