Emails now begin 'Hi Tomasz or Tomasz's agent.' What does it mean to write to someone when you expect a machine to answer? The polite thing now is to assume the robot.
Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B matches December's frontier models & runs locally on 12GB RAM. A $5K laptop pays for itself in weeks at heavy usage.
The more I use AI, the more I return to paper. Strategic planning upstream unlocks autonomous execution downstream.
DeepSeek V3 matches GPT-5.2 on most benchmarks. It costs 90% less. AI has its generic drug moment.
Databricks has overtaken Snowflake in revenue. AI turned unstructured data from liability to asset, flipping the data warehouse market.
Analysis of 14 production agent workflows reveals the optimal balance between deterministic code & LLM inference. 65% of nodes run as pure code, saving tokens & improving reliability.
Theory Ventures leads Koah's $20.5M Series A to build the monetization layer for AI applications. Every interface shift finds its answer in advertising.
Practical lessons from a year building AI agent systems : prototype with frontier models, fine-tune for stable tasks, use static typing, & run competing agents as critics.
My AI inference costs hit $100k annualized. Then I cut them 88% in a weekend. Technology companies are adding a fourth component to engineering compensation.
While billion-dollar AI deals grab headlines, most AI acquisitions are undisclosed talent deals. The real AI talent war is happening quietly, at scale.
