AI might be a market bubble. It’s not a technology bubble. It’s entirely possible that OpenAI overextended financially, that the circular transactions between AI labs, NVidia, and tech giants like Oracle will end badly (some commentators argue Oracle is in trouble already and that’s the real reason behind the mass layoffs). It’s beyond doubt that […]

Lately I’ve been seeing more and more companies preparing to roll out AI tooling to their engineering organizations. Hundreds, sometimes thousands of programmers are about to be told: here are your new tools, here is your training, here are the metrics we’ll use to measure adoption. The usual playbook. I came across a job posting […]

I’ve always been delighted when I managed to learn something new or understand something I hadn’t grasped before. It didn’t matter whether it was about history, computers, technology more broadly, or management – the very fact that I knew more, understood more was always a source of joy for me. And it still is. But […]

Recently a colleague told me how he runs multiple instances of Claude Code in parallel. He was very excited about how this speeds up his product’s development. But I think this is a trap. The trap is twofold. The Technical Trap The first level is of course the huge potential for bad architecture and hard-to-find bugs. Despite […]

The MIT report showing that 95% of companies achieved no benefits from the billions spent on (mostly pilot) AI implementations continues to reverberate widely across the internet (and especially on antisocial media). Commenters typically treat it as proof that AI is just hype that won’t fundamentally change anything in the world. My opinion, however, is completely different. […]

HAL 9000 is now real. Not in some distant science fiction future, but right here, right now, as shown by the Anthropic’s latest research. The scenarios they tested in their new SHADE-Arena evaluation are remarkably similar to the dilemma HAL faced in 2001: A Space Odyssey, except they’re set in non-existent corporate environments instead of a spaceship […]