IoT-AI cabbage, AI-fiddling cortisol, 100,000 CVEs, and more.
- “Weirdo AI CEO said a thing journalism.”
- “[Product management] hiring has held up the best (by far). And PM is the only one of the five core roles whose share of hiring grew (from 16% in 2021 to 21% today).”
- “I am aware that this is two square metres of cabbage.” // Messing around with AI-automating a garden to explore what making and using AI apps is like: the experience of product managing and developing them. Also, IoT. Great stuff!
- “Fiddling is fun for a lot of people. You enter a slightly different prompt and get a result that is slightly closer to what you want. For a lot of people–especially people who work in technology–that process is a happy one, even addictive, like a slot machine. For teachers–overworked and underresourced; class starting in an hour–I suspect that generative AI’s fiddly nature releases more cortisol than dopamine, more stress than relief.”
- “According to the CXO survey, nearly two-thirds (60% of organisations) lack a complete view of AI costs, and half of all respondents approve AI spending without adequate visibility into those costs. Just 12% say they can track most or all of AI’s costs and (significantly) also its value across the enterprise. That is not an encouraging figure, as it suggests that nearly 90% of enterprise users are unsure of AI’s value, or are unable to measure it.” // It’s hard to know ROI you don’t measure it.
- Related: yeah, if you think you’re spending too much, have you tried putting caps on AI usage?
- “The number of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) found and disclosed so far in 2026 surpassed 100,000 on Friday – more than double 2025’s total – and the reason can be summed up in two letters: AI.”
- “For the friend always talking about microplastics.”
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