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 …
The North Star Metric That Tells You to Remove Things
Ask what your north star metric would have to show before it told you to delete a feature. For most teams the answer is nothing, because the metric only points one way. Sessions, active users, …
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Don’t Leave React Native Just Because Shopify Did
Shopify has decided to leave React Native, and much of the industry has treated that as a verdict on React Native. It is a decision by one company, for its own reasons. What Shopify said In its …
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What Happens When Distributed Teams Share a Room for Two Weeks
Some of my teams have spent a week in the same room for the first time. Distributed teams like these normally work across continents, with the product managers and some of the designers on one side …
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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 …
When Your Internal AI Coding Platform Stops Being Shadow IT
A year ago, the AI coding decision was which subscription to expense. Cursor or Copilot, seat count, done. Now a handful of companies, including mine, write most of their code with agents they built …
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