The big idea: what do we really mean by free speech? - What “freedom of speech” means to the asshats: “what they actually want is freedom from the consequences of broadcasting their views."
Paul Millerd on AI and writing - This is the response a very pragmatic writer had to AI.
"Working People"
🤖 “Working people” is a politically charged term in the U.S. that denotes support for economic populism and labor concerns without the rigid implications of “working class.”
5 Questions to Help Your Team Make Better Decisions - (1) What Would Happen if We Did Nothing? (2) What Could Make Us Regret This Decision? (3) What Alternatives Did We Overlook? (4) How Will We Know If This Was the Right Decision? (5) Is This Decision Reversible?
AI Essentials for Tech Executives – O’Reilly - Good tables translating AI-tech-speak to business outcomes.
Are AI Development Frameworks The Foundation Of The Agentic World? - This is a really good overview AI middleware, all the stuff you need to surround model access to. As you see, it is A LOT. And still, it doesn’t include the runtime and operations stuff - day two. // Side-note: when you hear the phrase “agentic AI,” just think “using AI in apps."
Software Sourcing in the Age of AI - More B2B slop. // “The average software sourcing process involves 28 stakeholders and takes six months. That’s six months of manual research, vendor meetings, demos, internal debates, and ultimately, a decision that still may not be fully informed."
Lack of AI-Ready Data Puts AI Projects at Risk - If you’ve let your data lakes turn into data swamps your AI projects are going to go poorly. // “Gartner predicts that through 2026, organizations will abandon 60% of AI projects unsupported by AI-ready data."
What AI is good at, or, please don't fuck up my job and ETFs
I’m clearly a big fan of AI and believe it’s helpful in many ways.
I feel comfortable with that because I’ve used it for over two years now and rely on it daily for a wide variety of tasks, both work- and personal-related. That means I know exactly what it’s capable of, what it’s good at, and what it’s not good at. Me and the robot have a good relationship: we know how to work with each other.