Thoughts on AI, engineering, and building
Practical writing on AI agents, automation, and the engineering behind them, for the people who run the business.
Hardware & Infrastructurenews-analysis
Intel, AMD and Qualcomm each announced new AI PC silicon at CES 2026. What the NPU figures mean, what is new at the edge, and how to evaluate it.
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Economics & Pricingexplainer
Most organizations use AI but few can show profit impact. A simple way to define a baseline, count real cost per task and decide what to scale.
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Enterprise Adoptionnews-analysis
A year-end read of sourced figures: how many companies use AI, how few see profit impact, what NVIDIA reported, how MCP grew and how prices moved.
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Economics & Pricingbrief
Anthropic cut Opus pricing by two thirds in November, and Google priced Gemini 3 Flash at $0.50 input on December 17. The published numbers side by side.
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Hardware & Infrastructurehardware-breakdown
Training happens once; serving happens every time someone asks. How Google's Ironwood, AWS Trainium3 and DeepSeek's sparse attention each attack serving cost.
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Harnesses & Toolingnews-analysis
On December 9 MCP, AGENTS.md and goose moved under a Linux Foundation fund. Why the harness around a model now matters as much as the model.
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Economics & Pricingbrief
Model APIs bill by the token, and long prompts repeated many times add up. A short guide to reading the price list and one way to cut it.
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Harnesses & Toolingexplainer
Three ways to make a language model work with your business knowledge, what each one changes, and a simple order in which to try them.
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Enterprise Adoptionchecklist
A practical checklist for assessing whether your data is ready for an AI project: inventory, quality, access, ownership, and measurement.
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Models & Benchmarksbrief
Vendors publish system cards and model cards with every major model. Here is which sections matter to a business buyer, and a short checklist for reading them.
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Models & Benchmarksexplainer
What a published invoice benchmark shows about LLM field-extraction accuracy, and how to measure it on your own documents before trusting the output.
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Security & Governancebrief
Anthropic reports an AI-orchestrated espionage campaign, and earlier data shows prompt injection still succeeds against browser agents. What to take from both.
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