GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. - “We have been fed a steady diet of bullshit for the last several years.” // He’s not a fan.
AI Reviews Aren't Very Good
Making AI Reviews More UsefulFrom Robert Brook, posted July, 2025.Reading all the ChatGPT 5 coverage confirms my feeling that no one knows how to review these models yet. It’s either those incomprehensible charts (and also, who cares how good they are at math? More: who understand what those tests even mean?) or people just saying “I really like it.”
It’s a classic IT/business alignment problem. Until you define the “business outcome” you want and how you can improve it, you’re vibe-ROI’ing.
Columbus, Ohio’s Revival: a Model for the Rust Belt - Update from IRL. Now, back to cyberspace.
At-Scale Management and Multi-Foundation Views with Tanzu Hub - If you’re running a platform - or platforms - inside a large organization, Tanzu’s got something for you.
Remembering Dominic Pannell: Dom’s Framework for Influencer Ecosystem Mapping - Managing the people who influence enterprise It buying.
Why AI Isn’t The Silver Bullet For Customer Service — Yet - A typical digital transformation problem: you change just one tool, but not everything else, especially how people work and the (now) old systems you integrate with.
Heroku brings app development to the AI era - One day I hope people stop focusing on build containers, and start focusing on to build apps.
In the world of podcasts, YouTube is now the elephant in the room — just like in TV - This is obviously a category error: if I can’t add it to Overcast with an RSS feed, it’s not a podcast. But, (1) old man yelling at clouds, it me! and, (2) aside from using the word “podcast,” good info. // “The elephant in the room of all of this upheaval is YouTube – the silly viral internet video giant that became a TV, music, advertising, and now podcast giant. Per an April survey by Cumulus Media and media research firm Signal Hill Insights, 39% of all weekly podcast consumers use YouTube as their primary platform, more than double the share from late 2019. The video platform estimated that more than a billion people a month are watching podcasts as of February."
The Reformist CTO’s Guide to Impact Intelligence - A good take on metrics and frameworks to show the “business value” or tech projects.