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Links, news articles, clippings, etc. – classic blog-style.
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AI Bottlenecks
Things they slow down AI growth, or, why those tokens are so expensive. 🔗 AI Bottlenecks
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Bridging the IT Chasm: A Strategic Blueprint for Platform Engineering 2.0
Using VMware’s private cloud stack, VCF, to make a usable platform with Kubernetes. 🔗 Bridging the IT Chasm: A Strategic Blueprint for Platform Engineering 2.0
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Your coding agent got the onboarding your developers never did
before you tune the tone of your next prompt, look at the AGENTS.md file your team wrote this quarter, and ask why the onboarding doc for your newest hire still doesn’t exist. 🔗 Your coding agent got the onboarding your developers never did
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AI productivity gains aren’t translating to IT workload relief
Respondents said they have used AI in their work for an average of roughly 15 months. AI gains are materializing, but IT professionals say workload reductions aren’t keeping pace. Teams reported saving 2.7 to 3.3 hours weekly across core tasks, yet 71% of respondents said their overall workload has stayed the same or increased. Elusive Enterprise…
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or: I think that’s ugly.
Personalisation produces sameness rather than niches because minimising prediction error means hedging toward the conditional mean, and the resulting world then validates the prediction. Evidence from London high streets, Billboard lyrics, MovieTweetings concentration, and synthetic personas; the fix is a mandated exploration floor of about twenty percent, since a token discovery tab does nothing. Aesthetics…
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Americans don’t like AI
Today, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021. Another 9% are more excited than concerned and 37% say they’re equally excited and concerned, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted June 22-28, 2026. 🔗 Young US…
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when thought leaders get their voice wrong
Academic rigor and thought-leadership polish both edit the writer’s judgment out of the prose, and LLM text is that same absence with no one behind it. The proposed alternative opens with the conclusion, leaves the reader to close the gap, and keeps the author’s judgment visible throughout. 🔗 🤖 Practitioner Voice
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the programmer’s boss is not competition
Perhaps more intriguing is the makeup of that adoption, and how it appears to be blurring roles. Senior leaders are doing more of the hands-on IC work, adopting AI aggressively to help them do it, and non-engineers are committing code. The suggestion that everyone in an organization is becoming a “builder” seems to be directionally…
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lawyers prompt engineering
Beyond this being a highly interesting case on its own merits, it shows that ChatGPT transcripts can be obtained by opposing lawyers in discovery or during depositions. Moye said “every lawyer needs to make sure their own experts aren’t generating work product in a way that’s insincere, and then knowing you can subpoena the prompts…
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they were always trying to fina India
If we map it, again, you can see the two arms of White Empire stretching over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to draw resources and labor in. This was the point of colonialism, reaching the 50% of population that lives within the Valeriepieris circle. That’s why they kept discovering ‘Indians’ everywhere and never corrected themselves.…
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IDC White Paper: Self-Service Private Cloud as the Engine for In-House AI and Application Innovation
An IDC white paper making the case for self-service private cloud as the basis for in-house AI, reporting that 100% of organizations surveyed are building or planning generative or agentic AI applications. It identifies ticket-driven infrastructure provisioning as the operational bottleneck. Summarized by AI. 🔗 IDC White Paper: Self-Service Private Cloud as the Engine for…
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🤖 The AI Subsidy Window Is Closing: Oracle, SAP, and Workday Move to Metered Token Pricing
Enterprise software vendors subsidized GPU, inference, and token costs to drive AI adoption, creating false budget security while companies burned through annual AI budgets in months. Oracle, SAP, and Workday are now moving to metered pricing, which turns AI spending into an organizational design decision: model elasticity across the three uncontrollable pricing variables, retain core…
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The Epictetus method for task management
Epictetus’s productivity method starts with a filter: Is this mine? Original: Epictetus Ran a Better Productivity System Than Any App You’ve Bought by JA Westenberg. List extracted by AI. Separate what you control from what you don’t. Your judgments, choices, desires, and actions are yours. Other people’s decisions, opinions, deadlines, mistakes, markets, algorithms, and outcomes…
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house plants
George Gessert ornamental plants as a form of domestication. Under that framing, Gessert argues, humans have actually domesticated more species for aesthetic purposes than we have for eating… and “interesting” has been just as common an aesthetic aim as “beautiful” has been. Also: I have a hunch: kitsch discards “the interesting” as a desirable aesthetic…
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AI remove’s labor’s toil, capital doesn’t know what to do with AI – Elusive Enterprise ROI
Another way to say that is, AI has opened the door to humans spending more time making things instead of being crushed by meetings and process and bureaucracy. Also, from the same: Another way to say that is, AI has opened the door to humans spending more time making things instead of being crushed by…
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Make it easy to use AI with your apps to retain customers
Adobe hasn’t done well in the “AI era.” Perhaps the answer is this: people are happy to use Adobe, and if let them use it through AI too, they’ll keep using AI. In my experience, once you integrate with AI tools (through skills, MCP servers, or just having an API that agents can use), those…
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Once you realize AI is a great tool, you have a new great tool to use to get your work done better
The industry [used to be] far more apprehensive about AI tools than it is today, with a clearer understanding now of what uses might be appropriate — data collection and analysis, for example — and when it might not, such as in writing and editing stories in any format that might be considered for a…
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