The sales industry is obsessed with building robots that can send email. That is impressive in roughly the same way an automatic nail gun is impressive when nobody has checked whether you are building the right house. f you’ve been on Twitter or LinkedIn lately,...
The $100,000 Cron Job
If you have spent any time around enterprise software, you have probably seen some version of this story. A company has data sitting in an ERP, a PostgreSQL database, a pile of spreadsheets, or, more likely, all three. Every Monday morning, somebody exports a few CSV...
Anthropic’s New CMO, The Feds
If you listen to Coder Radio, you already know the deal. I’ve spent a lot of time analyzing the push and pull between cutting-edge tech and heavy-handed government intervention on the tech-sector and on software development in particular. Yesterday, Anthropic got hit...
Molbot is an Android – Don’t Trust It On Your Mac Mini
If you just unboxed an M4 Mac Mini, you aren't looking at a desktop computer; you’re looking at the most power-efficient AI "silo" on the planet. With 38 TOPS on the Neural Engine and unified memory, it’s the perfect hardware to run Moltbot (the artist formerly known...
Introducing PG Lake Make
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know I have a bit of a mantra: keep it boring. We live in an era where "Modern Data Stack" usually translates to "six different SAAS subscriptions and a mortgage payment in cloud credits." Everyone wants a Data...
AI Coding Tools & Expensive Saws
You can't throw a virtual stone in the dev world these days without hitting a hot take on AI coding tools. On one side, the hype machine is in overdrive, practically writing our obituaries as programmers. On the other, you've got the doom-and-gloom crowd painting a...
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