Scaling and Standardization

At the most recent Lean Coffee Austin event we had an interesting discussion around the topic of scaling engineering teams. The introduction …

Moats and AI Revisited

What business models and positioning are defensible in an AI-powered world? What moats will remain as AI grows more capable? Over the past …

Linuxulator for the Win

Last month I wrote up an approach to working with two operating systems with a single-boot system. This approach consisted of invoking Linux …

Fragments for llm

Simon Willison added “fragments” to his llm program. See the announcement and documentation. This radically extends the facility …

Dual OS Single Boot

It’s increasingly common to run into programs that are not portable. One mild version is people who assume Bash is available without …

Solo Unicorn

The idea of a solo unicorn has made the rounds lately in the AI fantasy realm. And don’t take “fantasy realm” as a …

Upside Potential

No new hire walks in the door knowing what they need to know in order to do well on the job. From outside the company, they cannot possibly …

The Data Moat

In two prior posts, here and here I listed moats that I think are defensible in an AI-powered world. One more is truly proprietary data.

Why …

Multiple Llamafiles With llm

In playing with llamafile under llm I initially used the llm-llamafile plugin. This plugin makes initial setup trivial. But soon I wanted to …

More Moats and AI

In a recent post I speculated as to what business positioning and models would be defensible in an AI-powered world. Since then I’ve …