A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products – O’Reilly - Testing AI-driven software: you need to track errors and mistakes and tune the prompts to get the results you want. This is more like herding cats than the usual testing that is straightforward.
money dysmorphia - To individuals, the economy is everyday, re-occurring costs and income, not stonks. // “When people talk about ‘the economy’ usually that’s a proxy for wages versus housing costs, healthcare costs and student loan debt."
The average college student today - Us Gen-X’ers have fully entered the “you kids, get off my lawn” golden years…and I’m here for it!
Why Are All the Smart People So Bad at History? - “The structure of rationalist and technocratic thinking incentivizes a flattened historical consciousness. They favor systems over stories. They trust models over memories. They crave optimization, not interpretation."
JavaOne 2025 Highlights Developer Productivity, Language Modernization - A quick overview of the conference themes and Java-world happenings.
How agentic AI makes decisions and solves problems - ”In 2025, 25% of companies that use genAI will launch agentic AI pilots or proofs of concept, according to report by professional services firm Deloitte. In 2027, that number will grow to half of all companies.”
Google Cloud engineering chief: that Kubernetes dev experience? Sorry about that… - ‘”McCleod, possibly with at least part of his tongue in his cheek, said. “I also just wanted to kind of apologize for the developer experience in Kubernetes. I think when we open source all this wonderful technology, we also open source some of Google’s internal culture about the developer experience.” It’s not like Google was beating up on outside developers, he continued. Rather it reflected Google itself. “We’re not very nice to ourselves at Google. That’s an afterthought. I made this amazing like, engineering marvel, like, figure out how to use it.”'
IDC Predicts AI-driven Transformation By 2025 - “Key findings from the IDC report include a forecast that 67% of the projected $227 billion AI spending in 2025 will originate from enterprises integrating AI into their core operations.” And: “IDC warns that up to 30% of organizations may reevaluate their GenAI investments if these barriers remain unaddressed."