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Reported features at length. Features at Frontier Bylines combine on-the-ground reporting with structural argument. They are longer than a profile and broader in subject than an essay.

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The Twenty-One-Year-Old Exit

A feature on the cohort of operators who exited their first companies before twenty-five — what they did with the money, what they did with the years, and why the second company is usually the one that matters.

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The Karpathy Year

He left OpenAI a second time, founded an education company, coined the word that defined a million new developers, wrote the year's most-cited critique of the agent industry, and then — eighteen months later — joined Anthropic to run pretraining. The most-quoted individual in AI made a choice. The choice was the year's loudest signal.

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From Utah to Chiang Mai — a Founder's Geography

A new visa, an old moat, and a generation of founders who decided not to wait for permission. The Chiang Mai cluster is small. The forces that built it are not. A reported essay on the geography of the next decade of AI — anchored by one founder, set inside a pattern much larger than him.