Jensen Huang ran Nvidia for thirty-three years as its sole founder-monarch with sixty direct reports and zero named successors. Then three reported affairs and a national security panic brought the house down.
The Air Force wants military satellites near the Moon by 2029. The orbital mechanics work, but the mission and budget remain ungrounded.
An ongoing job search, Raleigh’s startup community, and an open question about building a customer-funded company I’d want to work for.
At Agile RTP, Kevin Jenkins shared a year of AI development mistakes, smaller teams, and the work that still stands between faster code and useful software.
I’ve been experimenting with other post types on Hugo. You may have seen the addition of a photo gallery and just musings about the weather. I’m trying to make fuller use of my site, so you may be seeing more posts like this in the future.
North Carolina has been delightfully cool for the past week or so. It’s nice to actually feel autumn here, however briefly it’s going to last.
Three scenes with Jean Phil.
If agents take on more implementation, the gain should be more than throughput. Here are the choices that could return judgment, learning, and time.
AI software factories now span human-reviewed agents and no-review designs. The hard question is who defines success, authority, and risk.
Software keeps getting ordered to act like a factory. Sixty years of hard lessons explain the values our practice should protect, whatever comes next.
Neuromorphic computing is leaving the lab. Chips that compute the way biology does are heading into consumer products, robotics, and smart homes, and they may be the only sustainable way to prevent AI infrastructure from devouring the electrical grid.
Ural survived eighty years of Soviet collapse, freezing mud, and bankruptcy, only to be strangled by Vladimir Putin’s imperial war. Its Chinese replacement misses the entire point.
The ADA interactive process was supposed to be an informal problem-solving dialogue. Instead, corporate America turned it into an immune response designed to isolate, paper over, and purge disabled workers.