Which Way Will Models Go

The so-called foundation models grab all of the headlines at present. And small wonder. They progress at a dizzying pace. The major …

Spontaneous Order, Lunchtime Edition

At a recent conference the organizers set up the food tables in a hallway. The layout was the familiar one: a long set of tables with access …

MCP and Firecracker

Widespread adoption of MCP seems to be happening. There are already thousands of MCP servers available for download and easy incorporation …

Does Art Make the Cut

After my recent post about defensible moats in an AI-powered world, a friend responded to the question of what categories I overlooked, …

Leavings of Many Deaths

If a more poetic description of …

Summary and Audience

This week I participated in a discussion about newsletters. Specific topics ranged broadly: audience focus, free versus subscription at …

Listening Is Underrated

Many years ago a friend pointed out to me that the more the other party talks in a meeting, the better they tend to think it went. People do …

Step CLI

Looking to set up ssl connections to PostgreSQL with pgbouncer, I found Step CLI. It’s an open-source certificate management tool for …

Training Intuition

Last night someone told me about Hubert Dreyfus, and specifically his books What Computers Can’t Do and What Computers Still …

Evolutionary Reordering

Natural organisms have evolved to fuel themselves from their environments, from photosynthesis, to grazing, to scavenging, to predation, to …