Pejman Golkar

Essays

• The next project manager isn't software you use. It's software you hire. — Apr 2026

  Agentic AI is the biggest shift in software since the cloud. Construction is where it plays out first — and it's why I'm building Alfred.

• Agentic AI Is Eating Construction Project Management Software — Apr 2026

  Harvey ate legal research. Claude Code ate junior developers. Construction is next.

• I have 27 subs building a 500MW AI data center. None of them know what the other 26 are doing — Mar 2026

  27 subcontractors, 27 independent schedules, zero cross-reference — and the most expensive problem on a hyperscale build is invisible.

• The purchase order is a lie — Jan 2026

  Microsoft reserved transformer capacity in 2023. You sent a PO in 2025. You're not competing — you're waiting.

• The Gantt chart is dead — Jan 2026

  The Gantt chart has been the standard since 1910. AI infrastructure just broke the assumptions underneath it.

• Construction management software is dead — Jan 2026

  Primavera and Procore were built to track what happened. AI infrastructure needs a system that predicts what's coming.

• The 18-month data center build is dead — Jan 2026

  Microsoft is building data centers in 12 months instead of 18. Here's the speed-of-light formula.

• Build-to-spec data centers are dead — Dec 2025

  The spec never stays finished. Microsoft's 'cell' model shows how to build for a chip that doesn't exist yet.

• The 19-inch rack is dead — Dec 2025

  AI compute just killed the 100-year-old metal box every data center was built around.

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