Tag: diy

  • why big companies build their own software, and hire consultants to do it

    But selling anything to big enterprises is hard. You are asked to meet with a dozen people in the organization, spending hours and hours trying to explain and persuade. Half the people you meet with are skeptics who are going to argue that your service won’t work. The other half are going to argue internally…

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  • A Successful AI Application

    But selling anything to big enterprises is hard. You are asked to meet with a dozen people in the organization, spending hours and hours trying to explain and persuade. Half the people you meet with are skeptics who are going to argue that your service won’t work. The other half are going to argue internally…

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  • Harness engineering is the new DevOps

    Are we going to see harness engineering teams? Yes: these are already emerging. It’s too early to say, but that feels wrong in the same way that DevOps teams were a misunderstanding of DevOps-the-movement. My belief is that while there is friction in having every team create their own harness, that friction is generative and…

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  • The Case Against Building Your Own Agent Platform

    Build-vs-buy for enterprise AI inverted in a single year because ‘agent platform’ is really four separate product bets – memory, governance, eval, orchestration – each underestimated and each with vendors 18 months ahead. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The Case Against Building Your Own Agent Platform

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  • Tatermaxxing

    We had the idea to make a Bodoni interpretation with potato stamps, so we bought 8kg of potatoes, some knifes and carved a long, long evening in the kitchen. When we finally had the full aphabet we stamped it on paper, made a font out of this and called it Bodedo. Maybe my new mindset…

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  • Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish

    Argues local models need focus and polish to reach the point where picking one in a coding agent feels competitive enough that you don’t switch back to a hosted API within five minutes. The stated motivation is avoiding locking everything to hosted providers this early. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Pushing Local Models With Focus And…

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  • The Port State of Platform Engineering in two surveys

    The Port State of Platform Engineering in two surveys

    When I look at recent platform engineering surveys, the results are positive: people see the value in platforms and platform groups. I’d say this is because platforms are helping speed up the app release cycle by automating a lot of the infrastructure work app developers would otherwise need to do, baking in/automating security and compliance,…

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  • Link: ‘Amazon-proof’ Home Depot builds on its DIY digital foundations

    “Versus prior year, our online sales grew 21% in the fourth quarter and 21.5% in fiscal 2017, now representing 6.7% of our total sales. While we are seeing significant growth in our online sales, these online shoppers see the relevance of our stores as approximately 46% of our online U.S. orders are picked up in…

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