2026
- Same Ads, Different Room
TL;DR: Ads in AI answers work much like search ads in their publicly documented buying mechanics, with three changes. The system reads the whole conversation to pick an ad, where search starts from a …
- 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 …
- 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. …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
2024
- How Do You Choose the Foundation Model for Your Generative AI App — Like Your Car?
TL;DR: Nobody buys a car for its engine, and nobody uses a Generative AI app for its model. Users care about functionality, cost and experience. So don’t spend all your design effort picking the …
2023
- Building Your First Generative AI App in Just 6 Minutes — on a Slow Train WiFi
TL;DR: Six minutes on a train with bad WiFi was enough to build a working Generative AI app. PartyRock turned one sentence of description into “MarketGenie”, an app that takes a campaign objective and …