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🤖 A stark analysis of how a withdrawing U.S., a resurgent Russia, and a coordinated China have placed Europe in existential danger, urging radical unification and rearmament.

🔗 Europe is under siege

Some product management maxims.

The job isn’t to ‘prioritize value,’ but to create the conditions where value can move. You don’t reveal value through prediction; you reveal it through flow. 🔗 Everything I Got Wrong About Product (So You Don’t Have To)

The options we pass to FFmpeg in a variety of cases is now so complicated that I can’t really understand or edit it without AI.

Just image all the sed and awk script, the regex’s we can now all write effortlessly.

🔗 Manton

Infrastructure self-harm

That wasn’t what we hoped would happen when nearly 10 years ago we and others came up with these new automated technologies around Kubernetes. We thought we would make things easier, more automated, safer, more compliant. And instead, people seem to be getting more and more stuck. And that’s partly because systems have grown. We’re the victims of our own success. …. A platform so easy to use that it needs another platform to make it usable…

”Extrapolating these results to the economy, current generation AI models could increase annual US labor productivity growth by 1.8% over the next decade. This would double the annual growth the US has seen since 2019, and places our estimate towards the upper end of recent estimates. ”

🔗 Estimating AI productivity gains, Anthropic

Make it so the robots can use your shit, or you might be irrelevant. At least, less so.

Platforms, tools or frameworks that are hard for large language models (LLMs) and agents to use will start feeling less powerful and require more manual intervention. In contrast, tools that are simple for agents to integrate with and well suited for the strengths and constraints of LLMs will quickly become vastly more capable, efficient and popular.

Do so by:

Is it simple for an Agent to get access to operating a platform on behalf of a user? Are there clean, well described APIs that agents can operate? Are there machine-ready documentation and context for LLMs and agents to properly use the available platform and SDKs? Addressing the distinct needs of agents through better AX, will improve their usefulness for the benefit of the human user.

🔗 Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters