Tag: newsletters
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LLMs and Buttondown
AI driving a SaaS funnel, here the email/newsletter service buttondown. Also, an API is an important part. Unlike substack, buttondown has an extensive API. Because of that, I keep eyeing it for my own newsletter list. 🔗 LLMs and Buttondown
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Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Why Operational Complexity Is the New Bottleneck
while coding is becoming cheaper and faster, operational complexity hasn’t disappeared Day 2 operations is always the bottleneck. Also included is the current Syntasso/Kratix pitch. 🔗 Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Why Operational Complexity Is the New Bottleneck
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Google Cloud Next 2026: The Agent Era and the Full AI Stack
Google Cloud’s 63% YoY growth and full-stack position (TPUs, Gemini, data, apps) make it the best-packaged hyperscaler for the agent era, with a new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform replacing Vertex AI and a Knowledge Catalog reviving ontology as a machine-learning problem. The cheap-token era is ending, agents are driving zettabyte-scale data and new identity/security problems,…
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Prompts are technical debt too
Extends the observation that all code is technical debt to prompts: each one adds to the complexity and maintenance burden of a system, and every future change has to work with what is already there or avoid breaking it. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Prompts are technical debt too
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Laying it on thick
Besides being plainly rude and dishonest, these messages ‘pee in the pool’ of internet communication, making it more difficult for sincere creators to send authentic emails about their projects, simply by raising the ‘noise floor’ of simulation and bullshit. 🔗 Laying it on thick
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Dell Bulks Up Hardware As AI Infrastructure Shifts To On-Premises
Dell’s 2026 pitch: 67% of AI workloads already run off-cloud, agentic AI and sovereign demand are dragging infrastructure back on-prem, and the AI Factory now hosts Gemini, Codex, Palantir, Grok, and a hardened OpenClaw fork on Dell iron with a three-month break-even claim against public cloud APIs. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Dell Bulks Up Hardware…
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Enterprises Need To Be Careful Before They Go All-In On Anthropic
Guidance for enterprises on balancing Anthropic adoption with operational safeguards through hyperscalers. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Enterprises Need To Be Careful Before They Go All-In On Anthropic
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Gartner Survey Finds Sales Organizations That Provide AI-Enabled Next Best Actions Are 2.6x More Likely to Achieve Commercial Growth
For better AI ROI: (1) train staff on how it works, (2) have the AI suggest what to do next, i.e., drive a decision, not just inform, search, and context. 🔗 Gartner Survey Finds Sales Organizations That Provide AI-Enabled Next Best Actions Are 2.6x More Likely to Achieve Commercial Growth
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Liberty Mutual, Travelers discuss when not to modernize
We’ve got 70% of our compute in the cloud. ‘You want to modernize what’s in the critical path,’ said Mojgan Lefebvre, EVP and chief technology and operations officer at Travelers, speaking on the same panel. ‘We’ve chosen to not modernize some things and actually isolated subsystems behind APIs and then invested around it where the…
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Gartner Forecasts Worldwide AI Spending to Grow 47% in 2026
Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2.59 trillion in 2026, a 47% increase year-over-year, according to Gartner At that level, it’s kind of incomprehensible, so just file it away as “a metric fuck-ton.” 🔗 Gartner Forecasts Worldwide AI Spending to Grow 47% in 2026
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Five takeaways from Michael Dell’s keynote at Dell Technologies World 2026
Dell’s most direct strategic move was to counter the idea that AI belongs primarily in the public cloud. Citing Dell research, Michael Dell said that ‘67% of AI workloads already run outside the cloud’ and that ‘88% of respondents are running at least one AI workload on prem,’arguing that ‘CIOs are aggressively pivoting to hybrid…
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The third wave of American philanthropy
A massive influx of AI-driven wealth could add $37–100B annually to U.S. philanthropy, but talent and institutional gaps threaten to stall its impact. Building a “Silicon Valley for public goods” is urgent to meet civilizational-scale challenges. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The third wave of American philanthropy
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1Password extends OpenAI collaboration with Codex MCP server for just-in-time credential access
I’m thinking this is a general MCP server. Well, hoping. 🔗 1Password extends OpenAI collaboration with Codex MCP server for just-in-time credential access
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The True Cost of Influencing: Part Two
A deep dive into the minimal impact, hidden costs, and legal complexities of restaurant influencer marketing in the UK. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The True Cost of Influencing: Part Two
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Agent Skills Work but the Research Shows Most Teams Are Building Them Wrong
Curated, structured, and secured approaches to agent skills outperform common practices; unreviewed or flat libraries collapse under growth and risk. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Agent Skills Work but the Research Shows Most Teams Are Building Them Wrong
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Against the tyranny of the Apollonian
Examines how AI, politics, and music reflect the struggle between Apollonian order and Dionysian chaos, concluding that balance requires resisting Apollonian dominance. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Against the tyranny of the Apollonian
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Introducing Antigravity SDK: Transforming Development with AI
AI agents as modular, policy-driven building blocks for software, designed to scale from local scripts to autonomous applications. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Introducing Antigravity SDK: Transforming Development with AI
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What the OSS Summit Says About OSS in 2026
OSS Summit highlights the tension between open and closed AI, rising security debt, maintainer burnout, and a generational shift in open source stewardship. Summarized by AI. 🔗 What the OSS Summit Says About OSS in 2026
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AI’s impact on software engineers in 2026: key trends, Part 2
Survey of 900 engineers reveals AI boosts short-term output but erodes code quality, exacerbates cultural divides, and challenges the growth of junior developers. Summarized by AI. 🔗 AI’s impact on software engineers in 2026: key trends, Part 2
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Eval engineering: The missing piece of agentic AI governance
Surveys the emerging “eval engineering” vendor landscape (Klover, Maxim, Arize, Conscium, Confident AI, Galileo) and argues the real story is cost/latency pressure pushing LLM governance toward sampling, async pipelines, and specialized small evaluator models. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Eval engineering: The missing piece of agentic AI governance
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