Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race - ”Open source, publishing papers, in fact, do not cost us anything. For technical talent, having others follow your innovation gives a great sense of accomplishment. In fact, open source is more of a cultural behavior than a commercial one, and contributing to it earns us respect. There is also a cultural attraction for a company to do this.”
The Product Model Solves For Tech Debt - ”Forrester does not recommend ROI as a criteria for deciding to rectify technical debt, which should be seen more as essential maintenance spend.” // If you risk rail company they shouldn’t spend money on train maintenance, they’d tell you would kill the business (and people). Software is the same, executives just need to get that through the head. The ROI of reducing and limiting of limiting tech debt is the ability to function after 12 to 24 months.
Ignore the Grifters - AI Isn’t Going to Kill the Software Industry — Dustin Ewers - “we’ll eventually allocate our scarce AI resources towards the things they are best at, which leaves plenty of things for humans to do."
A free, powerful Chinese AI model just dropped — but don’t ask it about Tiananmen Square - Great, now the AIs are getting political.
Return to PaaS: Building the Platform of Our Dreams - The New Stack - It’s a tough slog.
Practical agentic AI without all the mysticism
Catch-up: what we learn from Sonos and OpenTofu, how I use AI at work, Bluesky is getting pretty good.
Found by fuzzyghost.Agentic AII’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the Tanzu point of view on AI and the stack we have (Spring AI and the VMware Tanzu AI Solutions). There’s a lot mysticism around agentic AI, but when you reduce it down to an API, you can simplify it.
Share of teens using ChatGPT for schoolwork doubled from 2023 to 2024 - It’s great for all your education needs.
How pointy shoes created a moral panic in medieval London - It’s good to remember that hundreds of years later, and prohibition against fashion makes the probities look like idiots with too much time on their hands. // Also, Dutch businessmen don’t seem to have stopped wearing them.
Best Prompt for Academic Papers Summary/Analysis - “Explain this paper to me using the Feynman technique, considering yourself as the author”