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Analysis and commentary on trends, changes, and developments in the technology sector, including company strategies, market dynamics, and industry evolution.

6acfb9bdadd9d896333e5789 2026-10-14

Crawling Down the Stack

With AI maintaining it, I can run my site on a bare server instead of paying a platform to make hosting easy. Middlemen from hosting platforms to Airtable sell that ease. Agents deliver it for cents, eventually for free, so their customers shrink to people who haven't heard about AI yet.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753bd 2025-11-12

My Agent is Making the Buying Decisions

Choosing tech based on what accelerates my agentic workflow means I focus on what to build and why, not how to navigate dashboards. When Claude Code can use Vapi's CLI but struggles with ElevenLabs' UI, the decision makes itself.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753af 2025-04-04

Current AI Data Privacy Landscape

A comparison of data privacy practices across major AI providers—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and DeepSeek—covering training data usage, retention, HIPAA compliance, and user controls.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753ae 2025-03-31

The AI Reckoning Is Here: Our Careers and Companies Need an Immediate Reset

AI is transforming work from team execution to individual AI orchestration. This shift arrives in sudden leaps with each model update, not gradually. Adapt immediately by mastering these tools, or risk being left behind as companies restructure and traditional roles disappear.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753a9 2025-02-26

Claude is the best all around AI experience for regular people

Monday, Feb 24th, Anthropic launched Claude 3.7 Sonnet, their latest and greatest AI model making their product even better. It combines the ability to provide immediate responses with the ability to reason longer on more complex subjects. This launch does provide an improvement in performance and expands the boundaries

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d75397 2024-09-02

Can Google and Gemini Catch Up to Their Own Potential?

AI: Where the Big Fish Might Just Get Bigger Many people predict that AI will be a space where the rich get richer. Incumbents have the data and the capital to do the expensive work of training models. They also have the applications that AI can be applied to. Startups

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d7538d 2024-08-31

Bridging the Physical-Digital Divide

In 2022, while tech giants poured billions into artificial intelligence and cloud computing, the construction industry spent a mere 1.5% of its revenue on technology—a figure that has remained virtually unchanged for decades. This isn't unique to construction. Many of our most physically intensive industries seem

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d75387 2024-08-29

Never been a better time to build

Greg Isenberg shared this post on linkedin today saying everyone is now a startup founder. There are tools everywhere that allow a person or small team to compete like only big companies could before. It's exactly what I've been feeling but not everyone wants to put

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d7538a 2024-08-28

AI-Powered Job Hunting: Robot vs. Robot?

I just stumbled upon this new AI tool that's a job-hunting supercharger. It is pretty cool and maybe a little scary. Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai Somebody uses an AI Bot to AUTOMATICALLY apply to 1000 JOBS in 24h and get 50 INTERVIEWS! And the Bot's

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d7539a 2024-08-19

LLMs: Powerful, But Not Magic

I can't imagine there is anyone in the tech world that hasn't heard of ChatGPT at this point. "AI" and "LLMs" are buzzwords that have touched everyone at least as far as sharing the exploits of their usage gone wrong. These are