The Links
Gartner Research Reveals CFOs’ Budget Plans Prioritize Growth Functions, Technology and AI in 2026 - More spending on tech, less on people.
The Supreme Court doesn’t care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art - I think this means you can’t copyright stuff made by AI? In the US, at least. How about programming code? That’d be a big shift!
What AX can do to deliver cohesion and uniformity to AI agents - 🤖: Agents amplify whatever structure - or chaos - already exists. If your systems are ambiguous, undocumented, or inconsistent, agents will surface that immediately. If your systems are structured, explicit, and governed, agents become powerful operators rather than confused scrapers.
Wastebook
“six-page narratives in seconds.” This changes everything.
“Stick with ‘meh’ because it’s safe.” WIP.
I asked Nano Banana to make a slide for me, and it made the slide, but as if it were a photograph I’d taken at a talk. It included being framed poorly, cutting off half the title and crooked. Amazing!
“a hotel-led, mixed use transformation.” He got a leaflet.
That moment when you’re watching some streaming service show and you’re like “fuck, I’m two seasons in and I just realized this is just a well produced soap opera.”
Some people survive by embracing the absurdity of the BigCo, sort of as a TV show they watch from time to time. Doing that would make you cynical, but the other part is working on what you think matters in the meantime.
Logoff
I’ve had a hodgepodge of things to do of late, during the day and the evening. It’s most satisfying to do one thing, a big unit of work. But, thankfully, the hodgepodge is usually just due to me not arranging my time well. Productivity gas-lighting!
On second thought, moving the newsletter to micro.blog isn’t exactly what I want to do.