OpenAI Requires Identity Verification For Access To Its Latest Models - Not sure what to think about this, if anything.
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“Still Federating After All These Years”: The Realities Of EA Maturation - Letter from the enterprise architect club.
A Visit to Costco in France - I could feel my heart racing in excitement as I scrolled through this. Of course, I could see that tariffs would destroy this beautiful occurrence. They have a KitchenAid! For American expats, a coveted item in Europe.
Did we just make platform engineering much easier by shipping a cloud IDP? - Google Cloud’s take on a platform (IDP).
OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access - Ars Technica - Good overview from a sea of, as usual, weird coverage and company announced.
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."