Arriving at ‘Hello World’ in enterprise AI

Brendan Falk didn’t set out to become a cautionary tale. Three months after leaving AWS to build what he called an “AI-native Palantir,” he’s pivoting away from enterprise AI projects altogether. In a widely shared X thread, Falk offers some of the reasons: 18-month...

Risk management in the public cloud is your job

I was excited to speak at a regional cloud computing summit hosted by one of the major cloud providers. My presentation focused on the many opportunities of public cloud and the essential need for risk management. Just before the event, I received an email stating...

Developing JavaScript apps with AI agents

There is a phenomenon in low-code and 4GL systems called the inner platform effect. Essentially, you take a tool and build an abstraction on top designed to make it simpler and end up creating a less powerful version of the same underlying system. Artificial...