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Industry Analyst and Enterprise SaaS CxO | AI Platforms and Cybersecurity | Ex-Google, SAP, Oracle | Faculty | Blogger | Design Thinker | Lifelong Learner

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I don't disagree. What hypothesis to test and what sources to analyze are all part of critical thinking, but collecting and analyzing them (manually so far) are not. We humans add value in instructing machines and connecting dots to advance a goal and not doing the work that machines should be doing

13.03.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who spends time in academia and in the private sector, I would argue differently. Just like in engineering, coding is a means to solve the problem, in PhD, data collection, analysis, researching sources. etc. are means to a larger goal. If tech helps accelerate that why not use it?

13.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Extra points if you used Pine

12.03.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The discussion went like:
"What do people want?"
"They want to get drunk..but wait they also want to get jacked"
"But we are Buffalo Wild Wings"
"So, let's add that in, too"

10.03.2026 22:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a slightly different take. As one ages, atrophy goes up, increasing time to get back into physical things you routinely don't do. But the above average fitness brings one back into that at the same level of intensity after some effort. Younger folks can switch on and off without any impact.

09.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

CSAT for EV customers is through the roof and yet most American car manufacturers can't seem to figure out how to make a good EV. It's a generational opportunity to innovate and take a lead and yet here we are.

06.03.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What a stellar founding team! Data sovereignty is foundational to business sovereignty which is becoming increasingly important as geopolitical situation continues to get worse.

05.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Add this to the fast-food CEO job description: demonstrated ability to take an absurdly large bite of a burger.

04.03.2026 03:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's also an early evidence on teams seeing much better results when they use LLM from the beginning for new things they build versus partially fixing old things because LLM tends to capture the "working context" of people as opposed to inferring arbitrary things from reading an old code base.

25.02.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They absolutely do just like anyone who writes code without an LLM. The feedback that I am hearing is that instead of focusing on which method might result into more debt, people are looking at containment (and remedial) to leverage LLM-driven acceleration.

24.02.2026 23:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They are very intentional about not generating something they can't replace.

24.02.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For new code, they have taken an approach of containment. Instead of using LLMs everywhere, they are generating new code for specific products. That helps them measure how well they are doing with "new potential tech debt" and maintenability in general.

24.02.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

A couple of teams I spoke to rewrote their old code (debt) by generating new code. They wouldn't have resources to prioritize this without an LLM. It's in production for a year and according to them their debt is down and overall code quality has improved.

24.02.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Has the percentage traffic from social media materially changed for Techdirt in the last few years? For many folks, LinkedIn and LLMs have boosted traffic.

23.02.2026 06:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not necessarily defending their decision but sometimes forcing folks to use and report issues is a much faster way to "catch up." There are also optics issues - AWS can't really ask their customers to use Kiro in good faith if they themselves aren't using it.

20.02.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Google gets a flak for being monopolistic but it's very hard to build products for the mass audience. It requires maniacal focus, patience, sticking to a super boring process, and a lot of money.

20.02.2026 01:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Going forward, one of the most important assets for an organization would be a digital knowledge-base of "what good looks like." Transferring institutional knowledge that experienced folks hold in their heads to what new hires need would be a pre-req to effectively use AI.

19.02.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, I do know that. In the US, laws vary, but generally speaking, not seriously enforced.
My question was more about perceived and real safety of autonomous vehicles. You did answer my question. Thank you! if you're willing I have a follow-up: how about safety of other cars?

17.02.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not for or against anything but curious to understand your perspective. With regards to jaywalking (NOT at lights whether lights are green or not), in your view, would driverless cars be less, equal, or more dangerous to people crossing, compared to cars with a human driver?

16.02.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If I don't understand how it works it must be insecure.

16.02.2026 18:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

15.02.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 5107 πŸ” 630 πŸ’¬ 126 πŸ“Œ 111

people who don't already understand the value of testing will generate a lot more bad software. people who know when and how to test are already doing victory laps

14.02.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

For one of these ice breakers, once I took ice cubes from our office kitchen and broke them into small pieces. My teammates were thrilled but the moderator wasn't.

11.02.2026 04:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes....but also πŸ˜‚https://bsky.app/profile/chrislhayes.bsky.social/post/3mdgx4veshk2u

08.02.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Best thing since Vegemite

08.02.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What's the UK IKEA version of a $1.50 hot dog that IKEA sells in the US?

07.02.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It feels really bad when we are in it but I have faith in humanity to adopt and adapt. I wasn't there in the workforce for the early paper to computer automation which drove profitability but since the 80s productivity gains haven't gone up. It feels like we are in another cycle and we will adapt.

07.02.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting....has this changed the way you construct your phases or is it natural for you to complete them under 200k with compaction off?

07.02.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I met James Lindenbaum in 2009 and Salesforce acquired Heroku in 2010. As Salesforce "sunsets" Heroku, here's a blog post that I wrote in 2010 cloudcomputing.blogspot.com/2010/12/sale...

06.02.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

2b. Do you see AI training and generation as more analogous to the β€˜search engine/fair use’ fights of the past, or is music different enough that we need new doctrine? What’s the most overlooked distinction?

02.02.2026 22:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0