Spent some free time today building an AI agent with persistent memory. Everything’s not working yet, and it reminds me how annoying out-of-date LLMs can be. Hard to get accurate advice on new technologies!
[blog] The common sense unit of work. Many things—how you plan, what you report, your approach to AI—depends on what you consider a unit of work.
[blog] The Agency Spectrum: An AI Risk Management Framework. This makes sense to me. What levers of governance do you have at your disposal when building an agent system?
[blog] Your employees are already AI-augmented. Your enterprise isn’t. Here’s why that matters. I’ve seen a few pieces on this, and observed this in real life. People are using whatever tools help them. That doesn’t always align with corporate initiatives or buying patterns.
[article] Legacy tech woes fuel IT upgrades as CIOs grapple with costs. Somewhat related to the previous entry. Most enterprise leaders are navigating dense portfolios, while employees figure out how to get today’s work done.
[article] Flow State to Free Fall: An AI Coding Cautionary Tale. Great analogy, and many of us who work with these tools understand the pain of climbing too fast with AI.
[blog] Everyone Wants To Grow — Few Want To Do The Work. You won’t advance—or see your team advance—without intentional investment. Many folks talk a good game, but not many put in the work.
[blog] What is “good taste” in software engineering? Great post. It takes time to develop “taste” and by the time you have the experience, you might be too stubborn about “best practices” to adapt!
[article] How do developers collaborate with AI agents when solving real-world software engineering problems? It’s probably confirmation bias, but this data affirms what I’ve been seeing and believing.
[blog] Building a Next-Generation Key-Value Store at Airbnb. You should buy versus build in about 96% of scenarios here, but it’s still cool to see what Airbnb built.
[article] The YouTube Tip of the Google Spear. Fascinating writeup of what’s still an under-valued service: YouTube.
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