- Why it was a Boston vacation.
- Europe set to treble sovereign cloud investment - “European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.” More context:
- Sovereign Computing, panel - This was a great panel, very detailed on topics and actually trying to figure out what to do, talking through hurdles, etc.
- Anthropic’s breakout moment: how Claude won business and shook markets - ‘Another OpenAI backer highlighted Anthropic’s modest market share: “Coding does not equal enterprise, it equals developers."’
- The dark side of AI meeting notes and AI notetakers - Don’t say dumb shit at work.
- 62% of enterprises now use Java to power AI apps - “62% of organizations polled now use Java to code AI functionality – up from 50% last year.”
- Will AI kill Indian IT? The $300B billable hour reality check - “As of now, experts said, junior roles that execute repetitive, standardized tasks are most vulnerable. Mid-level jobs with low specialization could also become redundant in the next decade. Workers who upskill will likely continue to earn good salaries. ‘AI should not be viewed as an existential risk to Indian IT, but as a filter,’ Biswas said.”
- Monopoly Round-Up: The $2 Trillion Collapse of Bitcoin and Terrible Software Companies - There’s very little pity for ERP software: “They charge junk fees, their products have bad looking interfaces, and their products are often crappy and extractive.” // These companies should be using AI to improve UX.
- Bafflement with Bezos - “The purpose of having f##k you money is to say f##k you, but it seems the purpose of f##k you money is to have more f##k you money.” // Unfolding vibe out there: sick of tech billionaires.
- Governments Are Using AI To Draft Legislation. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Answer: not much if you read and check the output. Of course, that depends on humans. And we know how that goes.
- Large Language Numbers - “knowing that Roblox has 350million monthly active users vs BlueSky’s ~30m is really useful when talking to Gen X and Millennials. As one has a big influence on culture), and the other is a text ghetto.”
- Skills Are the Most Underrated Feature in Agentic AI - “the key insight: skills let you encode workflows that are too complex to type out on demand but too specific to be built into the model. Every team has these. Your deployment checklist. Your code review standards. Your data migration process. Your onboarding documentation generator. These are all skills waiting to be written. The portability angle is worth noting too. Because skills are an open standard, a skill you write for Claude Code works in Copilot, Cursor, and Codex. You’re not locked into one vendor’s plugin system. You’re writing portable procedural knowledge.”