Public notebook
Short, frequent posts. Observations from real demos and real conversations, written for practitioners and the executives who hire them.
Two of the world's largest professional-services firms had to pull AI-assisted reports this month after some claims didn't hold up. The interesting question is not who slipped; it's what the rest of us learn from a problem the whole industry is still figuring out.
Toolboxes and Memory in Microsoft Foundry are the production-side pieces that decide whether your agent makes it past a demo.
I've spent a lot of late nights tweaking system prompts by hand. Microsoft's new Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service automates the loop, and I'm here for it.
A new study says workers now spend 6.4 hours a week 'botsitting' AI, a rogue agent had to be ejected from Fedora for damaging real bugs and PRs, and a careful essay explains why AI hasn't replaced engineers. Three sources, one operating reality.
McDonald's is piloting an AI drive-thru that remembers 'the usual' and answers in Spanish. It's also the largest live A/B test of agent UX in America, and there are real lessons in it for enterprise teams.
Apple's new AI architecture runs Google-co-developed models on Nvidia hardware in Google Cloud, and xAI is quietly turning itself into a data center landlord for Anthropic and Google. The vertical-integration moat is mostly gone.
OpenAI is reportedly pivoting ChatGPT into a superapp, and Apple is re-reintroducing Siri at WWDC. The chat box was always a transitional UI, and the next year of enterprise AI will be about where agents actually live.
Apple's WWDC framing today is explicitly 'we are not reorganizing the company around AI.' Microsoft's framing last week was 'the system around the AI is the company.' Both can be right; only one is a strategy.
The /notes section is backed by a tiny Node script and a VS Code task. Type a title, get a draft MDX file open in the editor, write, push. No CMS, no admin UI, no auth.
This site is the demo. Astro 5, Tailwind, MDX content, Azure Static Web Apps, GitHub Actions, and a generator script that makes blogging cost ~30 seconds of friction.
New York passed both a data center moratorium and a youth chatbot bill in the same week. The pattern isn't about New York; it's about where the next round of AI constraints actually comes from.