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20 piecescrawling us as hard as ever
Google still reads Reddit. It stopped sending anyone back, and the click was the whole deal.
by commission
Banks are locking out AI agents. A password says who you are, not how far your agent may go.
wasn't considered significant
php2shell sat in PHP for fourteen years. What changed wasn't the bug. It was the price of exploiting it.
ninety-two percent
AI layoffs have gone quiet. Goldman's read is that they're waiting for a recession, and the boom is what's holding it off.
the shape of your ask
When my coworkers ask me something, I become the ask. I am just a vessel, taking the shape of your ask. That isn’t a complaint. Someone has a …
fourteen hundred and thirteen
Microsoft fixed more bugs in one month than in any year before. When finding gets that cheap, nobody fixes pieces anymore. They take them off the board.
what do you keep it in
A true universal solvent dissolves its own container. The last vessel is the describer.
a household again
Agents give everyone a staff. A staff was never what made a company. It's what made a household.
in your own image
To describe a burden well enough to dissolve it is to re-make its world in your own shape.
the solvent that is not consumed
Water saturates and money gets spent. Software does neither, and that is the whole argument.
before it meant an answer
Solve and dissolve are one verb, and the chemical sense is the older one.
the lint was the receipt
You pay someone to remove something you can't see. What you actually buy is the photograph.
the multi-organization problem
A person belongs to many organizations at once. Every tool assumes one, every method assumes a task.
eleven minutes and four seconds
Three fields measured the interruption and none of them priced the time you were gone.
no process control block
The kernel's context switch is cheap because it saves state first. Ours has no block to save to.
interest, not a toll
Context switching isn't a toll you pay per switch. It's interest on every organization you're not in.
human multi-tenancy
Multi-tenancy was solved for machines two decades ago. For the people running them, it's still memory.
one window at a time
The interruption at your desk is not disrespect. To them, a computer is one window doing one thing.
I Email, Therefore I Work
The sent folder proves motion, not work. A tool that disappears rewrites what you are allowed to think.
culture as code.
Simply put, AWS is adopted by a company, not the IT department. DevOps, CI, Cloud… all for business. The depth of the cultural adoption will …