Simon Eskildsen runs a database company, turbopuffer, that lives entirely on CPUs rather than GPUs. Asked recently by Gergely Orosz how easy it still is to get CPU capacity from AWS, GCP or Azure, his …
Your AI Governance Policy Is Written for the Wrong Unit
Many organisations start their AI governance policy with a list of approved models. That list would not have stopped the July attack on Hugging Face, which came from people running software …
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The AI Acceleration Trap: When Output Outruns Absorption
Your teams can now produce more than your organisation can take in, and the numbers leadership watches reward them for it. That is the AI acceleration trap: the signal that says faster is the same one …
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AI Outsourcing: Why Rented Developers Are Being Repriced
The question for AI outsourcing is price. Every contract is a bet that you cannot hire capacity as fast as you can rent it. AI changes what that bet costs. The question and the mandate Gergely Orosz …
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The Open-Weight Default
For two years the model question had one answer: use the best available. That was the correct answer when the gap between the frontier and everything else was wide, and when most of what people asked …
Prompt Debt Is the New Technical Debt
A system I worked with once had a system prompt that repeated the same instruction four separate times, in four different sections, with escalating language. First a polite request. Then a firm one. …
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