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Over the last few months, I’ve been interviewing…

Over the last few months, I’ve been interviewing operators who are actually doing the work: not just talking about AI, but deploying it. When I sat down with leaders like Ben O’Donnell, Michael Ohayon and Jake Baron, I expected to hear about cutting-edge tech stacks. Instead, the most consistent theme was “pragmatism”. The most consistent …

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Since yesterday I’ve been digging into Gemini 3 and why…

Since yesterday I’ve been digging into Gemini 3 and why everyone is going crazy over it. My takeaway: this is a real divergence in capability that should make us rethink how we architect applications.Here are the key implications for enterprise architects and developers: đź§  System 2 reasoning & “thinking tokens” Latency is no longer a …

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What a morning.

What a morning. Thanks to the Cloudflare outage, Alhena’s engineering team has been up since 3:30am keeping things steady. When X/Twitter, ChatGPT, and a big chunk of the internet go down, it’s a good reminder of how interconnected everything really is. The hardest part isn’t the outage itself, it’s the cleanup afterward:– webhooks silently auto-disabling …

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