Insights That Matter Today
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You Don’t Have an ML Model Problem, You Have a Feedback Loop Problem
Why this matters this week Most “production ML” incidents I’ve heard about in the past month weren’t about model quality at all. They were about: Silent regressions after a retrain Feature pipelines drifting away from their “as-trained” definitions Retrievers or ranking models getting more expensive than the value they create Monitoring dashboards that look healthy…
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From RPA Graveyards to Real AI Automation: What’s Actually Working
Why this matters this week Most teams that tried “AI agents” in 2024 ended up with: Demo-ware that only runs under babysitting Glue scripts wrapped around chat APIs Or a fancy UI in front of the same brittle RPA stack Meanwhile, some very boring companies are quietly putting AI automation into production and ripping out…
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Shipping With a Robot Pair: How AI Is Actually Changing Software Engineering This Quarter
Why this matters this week The hype cycle has moved on, but the production work is just starting. In the last 3–6 months, three very practical things have converged for AI + software engineering: Models are good enough at code to affect real SDLC economics. Tooling has matured from “chatbot in your editor” to “wired…
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Solid-State Batteries: What’s Real in 2026 and What’s Still Labware
Why this matters this week If you own or architect anything that depends on lithium-ion—EVs, stationary storage, or fleet charging—solid-state batteries (SSBs) have moved from “hand-wavy slideware” to “you should start modeling scenarios.” The critical shift is timeline compression: we’re no longer talking “post-2035.” Multiple vendors are now: Shipping pilot production cells to OEMs. Locking…
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Your LLM Privacy & Governance Is Probably Fake — Here’s How To Make It Real
Why this matters this week If you’ve shipped anything beyond a toy LLM feature, you’ve now discovered the awkward middle ground: Security wants SOC2/ISO-aligned controls. Legal wants provable data retention limits and DPIAs done. Product wants faster iteration on prompts, retrieval, and new use cases. Finance wants to know why the LLM bill doubled last…
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Stop Treating AWS Serverless as “Free Glue”: A Practical Guide to Cost-Aware, Observable Platforms
Why this matters this week AWS bills keep surprising teams that thought “serverless = cheap,” and platform groups are being asked two questions at the same time: “Can we go faster with serverless and managed services?” “Why is our bill unreadable, our cold-starts brutal, and our incident response dependent on that one staff engineer who…
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