For a long time I foolishly scorned George Orwell. I think the prejudice is common among people of my generation (well among people of my generation who care about such things). Orwell is viewed as a fetish of boomer columnists – the types of people who sit in their houses in Hampstead being paid six figures by broadsheet newspapers not really trying with their prose and fondly imagining they are working in plain Orwellian sentences and fearlessly speaking truth to power."
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SaaS businesses not looking good now:
Traditional estimates for this scope of work: Method Estimate COCOMO (lines-based) ~20,000 hours Feature decomposition ~9,000-12,000 hours Industry benchmark 5-6 years solo, 12-15 months with 5 junior engineers Traditional cost $750,000 – $1,500,000
What I spent: $1,800. That’s a 99.8% cost reduction. It’s also not a fair comparison—traditional development wouldn’t produce identical output. But the delta is large enough that precision doesn’t matter.
🔗 On Running a Startup of Claude Code Agents: What You Get For a Billion Tokens a Month
Be well known around the company, do some personal marketing, “have an impact” on other teams and make sure people know about it. // When there’s blood on the boardroom floor, there is no “I” in team.
🔗 Microsofts Ex-VP of HR Shares How to Avoid the ‘Underperformer’ Label
Yes: “about what benefits AI is actually providing today, 66 percent said it’s improving productivity and efficiency.” But: “How that works when only 20 percent report revenue growth is left unanswered.” // And: “Currently, 25 percent of organizations say they’ve shifted 40 percent or more of their AI experiments into live use. That number is expected to reach 54 percent of organizations within the next three to six months.” // Meanwhile, here’s an accounting of executive hopes and dreams.
🔗 Deloitte sees enterprises adopting AI without revenue lift
Discounts for VMware and Tanzu software:
Under this new agreement, [US] agencies can purchase select Broadcom software solutions at a 64% discount off the list price. These offers are valid until May 2027 across the portfollo”
Stack Overflow said 84% of respondents are using or planning to use AI tools in their development process, up from 76% a year earlier. In the AI section, 47.1% of respondents said they use AI tools daily, and another 17.7% use them weekly. Yet developers’ trust has not kept pace. Stack Overflow’s analysis said trust in AI accuracy fell to 29% from 40% in prior years, and “positive favorability” dropped to 60% from 72% year over year.
🔗 Developers Lean on AI More, But Report Growing Doubts About Accuracy, Stack Overflow Survey Says
Nearly 9 in 10 executives plan to increase AI investments in the coming year and 46% said they would do so even if a potential AI bubble were to burst, the report found. More than two-thirds of C-suite respondents used AI tools daily in their work, an eight-percentage point uptick from a similar survey fielded in March.
🔗 Executives shrug off AI bubble concerns, move forward with adoption plans
To have full sovereign IT, you need to build the software from the ground up.
The #1 in a market doesn’t have to give up customer control to Apple:
Walmart doesn’t support Apple Pay because they want to control the customer transaction directly, and they’re big enough, and their customers are loyal enough, that they can resist supporting Apple Pay. Netflix doesn’t support TV app integration because they want to control the customer viewing experience directly, and they’re big enough, and their customers are loyal enough, that they can resist supporting Apple’s TV app.