Six weeks is all you get in the age of post-processable velocity
TL;DR
An Axios column argues that the pace of AI change has collapsed the reliable planning horizon to roughly six weeks. The writer recounts telling the Axios board that six-month planning discussions now feel like fantasy, and that a strong year could reverse inside a month. The piece calls this condition post-processable velocity: change moving faster than any individual, company, market or government can absorb and respond to in real time.
Nauti's Take
The diagnosis lands: twelve month roadmaps are mostly fiction right now, and short cycles are a real advantage for small teams competing against slow incumbents. The limit is that six week thinking also works as an excuse for having no strategy at all, and without a stable foundation it turns into pure reaction.
A workable split is direction on a yearly horizon and execution in weeks. Anyone hiring or investing still needs assumptions that survive longer than six weeks.
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