How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI
Interesting read about NVIDIA’s AI model strategy. Open models and Hugging Face are indeed a fertile ground for understanding AI usage to better their own hardware. Clever.
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The Art of Dealing with Ambiguity
“The problem is the solution.” In hindsight, Steve’s 5-step process is what I used to measurably define an ambiguous problem at Deel (funds withdrawal feature in an expense management solution).
Making some accountable for a project naturally pushes them to ask the right questions.
Navigating ambiguity at an early stage startup is a different ball game altogether 😅
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A rush of nostalgia down the memory lane 😮💨 I got my first computer in 2004 and put openSUSE 9 immediately on top of Windows 95. KDE remained my favorite desktop environment for a really long time.
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The state of the tech industry in 2026
Very insightful in terms of what AI changed in the software industry in the last few months, what it broke, and where we are headed. Although most of this analysis coming from big tech exclusively probably makes it a bit biased.
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Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
Deno had so much promise. I once wrote a fun app to teach/promote it, with some humor sprinkled on top. That was 6 years ago! It’s kinda sad to see its quiet decline.
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The Pulse: What can we learn from Bun’s rapid Rust rewrite with AI?
When you are rewriting an entire software stack in another language with AI, what gives you the confidence? A robust test suite and an engineer that knows the stack inside out.
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EP227: Top 9 Places to Use Jev
A useful cheatsheet of use cases for a decision model like Jev. Also applies to our very own Fernfly.
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Why you shouldn’t wait for inspiration to strike with Harlan Coben
My takeaways:
- Stop waiting for inspiration. Amateurs wait for the muse; pros treat creative work like a job.
- Routines wear out. Coben writes somewhere (a café, a supermarket deli counter) until it stops working, then moves on. Switching pens, notebooks, or screens helps too.
- Get comfortable with boredom. If you take a walk because the blank page scares you, you’re dodging, not creating.
- The magic isn’t the process. It’s seeing words on a page that was blank this morning. Progress beats bliss.
- Character is plot. Don’t describe who someone is; show what happens to them.
- Worst advice: write for the market. By the time you finish, the trend is dead.
- Best advice: if it helps you produce pages, good. If not, bad.
- Good collaboration isn’t 50/50. Aim for equity, not scorekeeping.
- “You bring your own weather to the picnic.”
- Doubt never goes away, even for Stephen King. Let it fuel you, not freeze you.
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AI Customer Support at Scale: The Travel Industry’s $Billion Bet
In theory, all customer support systems may look the same. This Airbnb vs Booking vs Expedia case study illustrates differing support philosophies that materially affect system design, each with its own tradeoffs.
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How will AI change operating systems? Part 2: Windows
Cool AI-native OS features by Microsoft, especially around agent isolation/containment and embedded small language models.