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 …

Python CVS Woes

I wasted time this morning learning that the csv module defaults to \r\n line endings regardless of platform. This is clear enough in the …

Moats and AI

How will the rise of AI capability affect the ability of startup companies to build moats? What moats are defensible in an AI-enabled world? …

Richard Epstein at Civitas

Yesterday I discovered that Richard Epstein is now affiliated with Civitas. I knew that John Yoo was, having seen him at one of their …

Meetup Attendees

The Austin CTO Club is now organized on Meetup. When I attempted to use the Pro Dashboard to download a list of my attendees, the file …

Wrapping jq select

In working with large and deeply nested json structures, I had to extract or delete selected elements from the structure based on variable …