August 17, 2026 Laws & Disorder #6 — Amara's Law: It's Not AGI — But the Value Is Already Real

TL;DR: Amara’s Law says we overestimate a technology’s impact in the short run and underestimate it in the long run, and the Gartner Hype Cycle draws the same shape: an inflated peak, a trough of disi…

August 13, 2026 Content Provenance Is Growing Up: What Anthropic's Watermark Really Signals

TL;DR: Text from Claude’s newer models carries an imperceptible statistical watermark, and its generated files carry a cryptographically signed C2PA provenance manifest where the platform supports it.…

August 12, 2026 AI Moved Into the Database. I've Spent 25 Years Getting Logic Out of It.

TL;DR: SQL Server 2025 (and Amazon RDS’s managed version of it) can now store vectors natively and call Amazon Bedrock straight from T-SQL. Half of that is genuinely good: vectors are data, and data b…

June 25, 2026 I Rebuilt a Browser Fact-Checker on AWS, and AgentCore Web Search Was the Missing Piece

🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video if you’d rather watch than read. TL;DR: I came across an open-source browser extension that fact-checks videos and live streams in real time, and I wanted …

June 2, 2026 Welcome to the Family: I Sat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus Down on Bedrock

TL;DR: OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex went GA on Amazon Bedrock on June 1, 2026. To get a feel for it, I wired up two Strands agents, Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, and let them chat, with Opus pl…

March 21, 2026 When Thinking Twice Helps — And When It Doesn't

The Saturday Morning Experiment Last Saturday, I installed a Python library, pointed it at Amazon Bedrock, and asked a model the same questions three times, with zero, one, and three rounds of self-re…