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The following article originally appeared on Mike Amundsen’s Substack Signals from Our Futures Past and is being republished here with the author’s permission. There’s an old hotel on a windy corner in Chicago where the front doors shine like brass mirrors. Each morning, before guests even reach the step, a tall man in a gray coat […]
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The following article originally appeared on Mike Amundsen’s Substack Signals from Our Futures Past and is being republished here with the author’s permission. There’s an old hotel on a windy corner in Chicago where the front doors shine like brass mirrors. Each morning, before guests even reach the step, a tall man in a gray coat
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My father spent his career as an accountant for a major public utility. He didn’t talk about work much; when he engaged in shop talk, it was generally with other public utility accountants, and incomprehensible to those who weren’t. But I remember one story from work, and that story is relevant to our current engagement
In preparation for our upcoming Building SaaS Businesses with AI Superstream, I sat down with event chair Jason Gilmore to discuss the full lifecycle of an AI-powered SaaS product, from initial ideation all the way to a successful launch. Jason Gilmore is CTO of Adalo, a popular no-code mobile app builder. A technologist and software
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A performance reel. Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook accounts. A separate contact email for enquiries. All staples of an actor’s website. Except these all belong to Tilly Norwood, an AI “actor.” This creation represents one of the newer AI trends, which is AI “artists” that eerily represent real humans (which, according to their creators, is the
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Over the past two years, enterprises have moved rapidly to integrate large language models into core products and internal workflows. What began as experimentation has evolved into production systems that support customer interactions, decision-making, and operational automation. As these systems scale, a structural shift is becoming apparent. The limiting factor is no longer model capability
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There’s an open secret in the world of DevOps: Nobody trusts the CMDB. The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is supposed to be the “source of truth”—the central map of every server, service, and application in your enterprise. In theory, it’s the foundation for security audits, cost analysis, and incident response. In practice, it’s a work of
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The narrative from the AI labs is dazzling: build AGI, unlock astonishing productivity, and watch GDP surge. It’s a compelling story, especially if you’re the one building or investing in the new thought machines. But it skips the part that makes an economy an economy: circulation. An economy is not simply production. It is production
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The following article originally appeared on Block’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Lately, I’ve seen more developers online starting to side eye MCP. There was a tweet by Darren Shepherd that summed it up well: Most devs were introduced to MCP through coding agents (Cursor, VS Code) and most devs struggle to
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The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. There’s a fake confidence you can carry around when you’re learning a new technology. You watch a few videos, skim some docs, get a toy example working, and tell yourself, “Yeah, I’ve got this.” I’ve done that. It never lasts. A
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