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The AI Budget Reckoning
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. Microsoft began canceling direct Claude Code licenses and redirecting engineers toward cheaper alternatives. Nvidia’s Bryan Catanzaro put the arithmetic plainly: for his t...
Faster Code, Slower Teams
The pitch was clean: AI coding tools would make your engineers faster. And the numbers came in to prove it: Pull requests up, Cycle times down, Individual throughput at levels that would have seemed unrealistic two years ago.
So why do so...
The Job That AI Can't Do (Yet)
Here is a number worth sitting with: 75% of engineers are using AI tools, yet most organizations see no measurable improvement in performance.
Not a small improvement. Not a disappointing one. No measurable improvement.
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Foundations #4: The Accidental Standard
This article is part of the “Foundations” series, exploring the roots of well-known technologies, patterns, and solutions that quietly revolutionized our industry.
Every post I write for Old Mug is written in Markdown. Every respons...
Foundations #3: The Rise of Virtualization
This article is part of the “Foundations” series, exploring the roots of well-known technologies, patterns, and solutions that quietly revolutionized our industry.
Today, spinning up a virtual machine in the cloud takes only a few s...
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