David Landes

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The question that kept nagging me was not about the technology. It was about the room.

I stood in Trivandrum watching twenty engineers transform their output with Claude Code. Twenty-fold productivity. The number was real. The energy was real. But something kept pulling at me in the weeks after, a question I could not articulate until I found David Landes.

The question was: Why this room?

Not why this tool — I understood the tool. Not why this moment — I understood the moment. Why these particular engineers, with these particular habits of mind, producing these particular results? Because the tool was identical everywhere. The same Claude Code available in Trivandrum was available in a hundred other cities. The model did not care about geography. It did