I was listening to a recent episode of The AI Daily Brief — “The AI Subsidy Era Is Over” — and my thoughts started spinning. Not because the argument was new, but because it connected dots I’d been se…
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Is the AI Subsidy Era Ending? And Why That Might Be a Good Thing
Hackathon Gamification: A Real-Time Leaderboard You Can Deploy in 5 Minutes
Lisbon, 6 AM, Rising Sun Lisbon at dawn — the best way to start a hackathon day Three days in Lisbon. Not for sightseeing, though the city makes that hard to resist. I’m here for an AI hackathon — tea…
The Agent Security Stack Nobody Is Building
The Scenario Nobody Planned For It’s 11 PM. Your customer support agent, the AI one, is processing a refund request. It queries the order database, pulls the customer’s payment history, and calls the …
The 732-Byte Wake-Up Call
Security is not a phase you pass through on the way to production. It is a permanent condition. On April 29, 2026, a security research team published a vulnerability that works on every Linux distribu…
The Bottleneck Moved: What 10 Studies Say About AI Developer Productivity
The Pattern I Keep Seeing Every few weeks, a customer asks me the same question: “We rolled out AI coding tools to 500 engineers. Why aren’t we shipping faster?” I wrote about this a month ago. The da…
The Book That Made Me Build My Own Website
A Gift to Humanity In 1993, Tim Berners-Lee made a decision that shaped the modern world: he gave the World Wide Web away for free. No patents, no licensing fees, no royalties. CERN released the techn…
The AI Track at AWS Summit Hamburg 2026: From Demo to Deployment
Last year, I wrote about the dedicated Gen AI track at AWS Summit Hamburg 2025. The response was overwhelming — the track was packed, conversations spilled into the hallways, and the Fischbrötchen at …
Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever
The Talk That Confirmed What I’ve Been Seeing Matt Pocock stood on stage at the AI Engineer Summit and said something that most of the audience needed to hear: the developers who succeed with AI codin…
MCP Sampling & Elicitation: When Servers Talk Back
From Request-Response to Collaboration When I wrote about the CLI vs MCP debate [1], I focused on the infrastructure patterns underneath. But MCP itself has been evolving, and the latest additions cha…
Nvidia's Real Moat: What Jensen Huang Told Dwarkesh Patel
Electrons In, Tokens Out Long weekend drive, sunny weather, and nearly two hours of Jensen Huang arguing with Dwarkesh Patel about whether Nvidia’s moat will hold. As far as podcast entertainment goes…