The Draw Boy - Remove a bottleneck (usually humans), and supply can meet demand. New demand is created, people but more, new things are invented, people but those. New roles are often created to handle the new businesses. It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines - Weird. The off-shoring jobs angle is ponderous. The top 1,000 Roblox creators earned an average of $1.
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If everyone can ship software, what will distinguish the successful companies from the apps that are lost in the noise? It’s no longer enough to just spend more time coding, or to be the first with a good idea.
I think it’s going to become even more important to grow other aspects of running a software business:
- Marketing
- Customer support
- Documentation
- Building trust
- Servers (speed)
Of course I’ll be writing a lot of code too, adding features, fixing bugs. But that’s the bare minimum now.
Large enterprises continue to run a hybrid model for the foreseeable future. After more than 15 years of cloud migration, just over 54% of production workloads have been moved to the public cloud." IDC, November 2025 survey
🔗 Enterprises Continue to Leverage Both Private and Public Cloud as Data Grows
Relative to your interests, Friday
Enterprise AI reality checks everywhere: no more free lunches, Copilot productivity gaps, agent sprawl, usage control, and OSS maintainers drowning in AI slop. Also: Kubernetes + Greenplum, MCP auth that finally works, EA’s quiet resurgence, AI prompts-as-infra, propaganda via images, and yes, a Chicken McNugget futures market.
Building your own internal developer platform is a trap. Buy it instead. // My talk at cfgmgmtcamp 2026. This is the live stream recording, it starts at 5 hours 38 minutes.
Two leading thinkers of the 18th century, the French philosopher Montesquieu and the Scottish political economist Adam Smith, argued that world trade promoted peace and harmony because it advanced mutual interest and interdependency.
Yes, but:
Beckert emphasizes how capitalism has depended at every stage of its development on the military power of the modern state and frequently on practices of extreme violence, such as the outright terror required to build the Atlantic system of slavery.
one of the values of Pair Programming is that you have to regularly explain things to your pair. This is an important part of learning - for the person doing the explaining. After all one of the best ways to learn something is to try to teach it.
Relative to your interests, Tuesday
OpenAI’s Codex taking aim at Claude Code, plus growing global pushback against U.S. tech - with Europe flirting with the kill switch. And a spicy take on AWS’s future: when developers don’t choose the cloud, AI tools do.
This is how the new announcement economy works. You declare a massive number. The headlines write themselves. The stock moves. Mission accomplished." Whether the deal actually closes becomes almost irrelevant. The momentum already happened." As a generalized marketing strategy: “my doctrine is that velocity has replaced authority as the organizing principle of information. What and who moves fastest wins. Truth and facts are optional and get lost in the race to dominate attention.
The real problem is that developers don’t choose AWS anymore (because honestly, given a choice between AWS and a vendor who thinks deeply about developer experience, who would?). They choose Vercel, or Netlify, or whatever their AI coding assistant suggests when they type “deploy this.”
Some charts/survey/data would be nice to see here. Still, I hear this sentiment a lot. If it gets into the chatter, true or not, it will have negative consequences for AWS.