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113: Anyone with an API key can copy your AI strategy, with Ritavan

AI adoption is getting easier for everyone. The harder question is whether you're using it to optimise the game you're already in, or to build a position that changes the game.

Ritavan, author of The System Gambit and Data Impact, returns to The CTO Playbook after his first appearance on episode 30.

A System Gambit is a deliberate sacrifice that builds a structural advantage that compounds. Rather than optimising within the system you're already in, it changes the system so competitors can't simply buy or copy their way to your position.

Ritavan explains the difference between a System Gambit…

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