Strategy
Plan for the Model Being Down
Claude, ChatGPT and Grok all went offline at roughly the same time. If AI sits at the core of your product, availability is a design problem, not a vendor problem.
Topic
AI Strategy
8 articles tagged “AI Strategy”.
Research
You Are Probably Paying for the Wrong AI Model
We split building a product into eleven jobs and tested free and paid models against each one. For most of them, the free model is good enough. Here is where paying is worth it, and where it never is.
Cloud Architecture
Orbital Data Centres: SpaceX's Big Bet Still Has an Economics Problem
This week's AI Briefing: an Altman, Musk exchange about SpaceX being worth more than the planet turned into the more interesting question underneath it, can you actually run AI inference in orbit, and does the maths close? Not yet, and here's why.
Engineering
How Do I Get Better LLM Uptime? A Reliability Playbook for AI in Production
Most LLM outages are not caused by the model. They are caused by the pipeline around the model. The retries, the routing, the fallbacks, the rate limits, the observability. A concrete playbook for hitting three-nines on an LLM-powered product.
Strategy
AWS Summit DC: The AI Tag Isn't a Strategy
Two days at AWS Summit in Washington, DC, big, well attended, informative, and underwhelming. In the rush to bolt an LLM onto everything, a lot of vendors forgot to do anything novel. Notes on what impressed, what didn't, and why it's still the data that decides the outcome.
Strategy
AI Won't Replace Your Engineers. But It Will Expose Your Lack of Engineering Leadership.
Every week there's a new headline about AI replacing software engineers. The data tells a different story, and the real gap it's exposing isn't in code production, it's in engineering leadership.
Strategy
Not All AI Is Created Equal: Three Questions That Separate Signal from Noise
Every product now has an 'AI' badge, but slapping a label on a fridge doesn't make it intelligent. Three critical questions separate leaders who understand AI from everyone else buying stickers.
Strategy
Anthropic's Bun Acquisition: Why AI Giants Are Moving Down the Stack
Anthropic's acquisition of Bun isn't just another dev tool purchase, it's a signal that AI companies are done relying on external infrastructure. When you own the model, the dev tools, and the runtime, you control the entire coding experience.