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Some apps need different tech to power them. It's not just about more throughput, it's about a different kind of architecture. For things like gaming, perps exchanges (maybe also AI), the ability to handle big computational transactions makes all the difference. Starknet is that different tech.
I needed AI-powered automation that could actually keep up with my day. Existing tools were too slow, too error-prone. So I rewrote everything in Rust — 45+ APIs that Claude Code uses to run my VC workflow end-to-end. I'm presenting the architecture...
I am happy to see a lot more "build vs buy" discussions happening across more tech companies. As in "should we buy leading models [like OpenAI, Anthropic] and be dependent on their pricing and reliability, or should we build+own our inference...
Which ZK tech can you trust with your Dollars? Of recent, in the cross fire of the battle between Canton and Ethereum and Solana, the question of ZK safety has come up. As co-founder of @Zcash and @StarkWareLtd, both powered by...
Generative AI was all about GPU bursts. Agentic AI changes everything - it's continuous orchestration, coordination, and real-time decisions. That's why the CPU is becoming the new bottleneck. Arm just placed a massive bet with its first-ever production AGI CPU, claiming 2x...
From here on out, all silicon architecture designs will be designed with agentic AI in mind. Basically, all silicon becomes agentic workload-focused.
Marcus Fontoura, CTO for Microsoft Azure, author of HUMAN AGENCY IN A DIGITAL WORLD, on impact of AI on knowledge workers https://t.co/DFOk3yJikn
I’ve argued that Apple is constrained by what it can do with AI by its privacy narrative. Apple *has* trained foundation models, and they have a proprietary ~3BN LLM available on device via Foundation Models Framework. They also offer other...
A big move happened in the AI + dev productivity space: Laura Tacho (@rhein_wein) DX —> AWS Now I’m paying attention to AWS and what they’ll do here 👀 (I’m also no longer an advisor at DX) https://t.co/Tr3Kzij6eR
Every company will become an AI factory, wherein the unit of production is the token. Tokens, however, create usage tracking billing headaches that are v unlike SaaS. ▲ AI Gateway now solves the metering problem across models & providers with...
“Why we chose ZEC as the payment layer for Silo, our private AI platform”—https://t.co/UFPqM53FCq https://t.co/wxZxEWbopF
You're in a cross-functional strategy meeting, exhausted from trying to get your architecture proposal taken seriously. The senior developer repeats your exact idea verbatim as if he just invented it. Peer: (Leans back, steepling his fingers) "I've been thinking, what we really...
A deep dive into Arm’s first full-fledged datacenter CPU. $ARM $NVDA $TSMC $AMD $INTC https://t.co/2LhQgo6i3s
Here’s what I’d do if I was in charge of GitHub, in order: 1. Establish a North Star plan around being critical infrastructure for agentic code lifecycles and determine a set of ways to measure that. 2. Fire everyone who works on...
Arm is betting its future on its own AI chip. The company expects a major revenue boost as it moves beyond licensing designs into building more of its own technology stack. That shift could reshape how it captures value in the...
Uhhh is this the beginning of the inevitable breakup between Stripe and Shopify? This is a big deal. It’s also a bunch of my predictions coming to life at once. Here's what's happening: Stripe is powering a native checkout inside Facebook ads....
There's been some talk of data center CPUs today. What's the role of CPUs vs GPUs vs TPUs vs NPUs - and where does @Qualcomm fit in? I had to try to do a plain-English answer. (shot and edited on...
Musk outlines terafab to deliver massive compute, yet production limits, resource shortages, and launch demands raise serious feasibility concerns. https://t.co/5gxDE0tf4d
In this report, we detail why, and what workloads specifically, are causing the datacenter CPU growth cycle. A new architecture emerges as agentic native CPUs find their place in the market. Report: Secret Agent CPU https://t.co/jjdrB3k1Bt
Bigly....Arm launches its own CPU, with Meta as first customer Arm can sell this to China...... https://t.co/AMt1kLNiV5
. @Arm spent decades as the quiet IP licensor behind everyone else's brand. Owning the agentic CPU narrative as a named vendor is a different game entirely. Power efficiency was always the moat. Now they get to say so out...
NEW POST ADRs are short documents that capture a decision, structured into logs that reveal a history of architectural thinking for a product https://t.co/llbshdFbyf
Panther Lake is a real turning point for Intel. I've been on AMD since switching to Linux, but with 18A delivering Gelsinger's dream from 2021, it's a privilege to run blue again on the laptop side. And Intel working directly...
The chatter about generating code with AI tools feels stuck at the "basic" level of... well, codegen, plus (perhaps) reviews and testing. I hear close to little talk about the things that come right after generating code: deploying, canarying, o11y, SLOs,...
OpenAI is moving toward an all-in-one AI platform. The goal is to bring ChatGPT, Codex and other tools into a single environment and reduce fragmentation. Instead of switching between apps, AI becomes one continuous workspace. This is a shift from using AI...
ASML needs to become simpler. That, too, is innovation. Marco Pieters, ASML “We have become too sluggish,” says Marco Pieters, ASML’s new technical boss. He is leading a sweeping reorganization to prepare the Veldhoven-based high-tech giant for the AI era. https://t.co/0vG7jthH2I
AI is falling short because most organizations haven’t built the architecture to turn insight into action. In my latest @Forbes article, I explore why closing the gap between knowing and doing requires unified AI, data, workflows, and governance. This makes...
This is SO SUCH A GOOD example on why some things that do not make sense from the outside, make perfect sense from the inside. In 2016, Uber moved to its own chat system, off of HipChat (that had a disastrous...
A real AWS Data Science pipeline looks like this: Raw data → S3 ETL → AWS Glue Query → Athena Training → SageMaker Deployment → Endpoints Monitoring → CloudWatch Add streaming with Kinesis and orchestration with Step Functions, and you have a full production ML platform. This is...
If I had to scale an app from 0 to 1 million users, here's what I'd do (step by step): There are different ways to scale & this is just one of them. The best solution & numbers will depend on your needs. Keep...
Banger of a piece, from start to finish. 🔥 "We have handed agents the codebase, the tests, the docs, the specs, the commit history." "We haven't handed them the one artifact that actually survived — the record of what users have been...
The funny thing about people saying the MacBook Neo is just an iPad or an iPhone is that under the hood iOS is fundamentally the same thing as macOS, and indeed when Apple launched the iPhone they said explicitly...
9 interesting observations from my conversation with Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh, creator of Ghostty, founder of HashiCorp): 1. Vagrant was created because dev environment setup was an unbillable time sink at a consultancy. At the Ruby on Rails shop where Mitchell worked, jumping...
If your team isn’t discussing Spec-Driven Development or how your design decisions are documented, versioned, and shared, you’re undermining your AI tooling strategy.
Most engineers tune out when they hear “system design.” It feels like overhead. Until AI forces you to care about it.
In February 2026, Figma released version 126.1.2. One line in the changelog caught nobody's attention. It should have. The update stripped --remote-debugging-port on startup, with no announcement and no deprecation warning. Just gone. Overnight, developers who'd spent months building automation...
If you want to stay relevant in AI by 2026, don’t just learn tools — master systems. Here are 9 AI skills that actually compound: • Multimodal AI (text + image + audio + video) • AI Tool Stacking • LLM Evaluation & Management •...
Product is one of the biggest investments in a B2B scale-up — yet its commercial impact is often unclear. When the board asks, “What value did product actually create this quarter?” many teams struggle to answer clearly. 🗓 Wednesday, 4 March ⏰ 17:00 – 18:00...
NEW POST @techygarg uses a structured conversation with an AI agent that mirrors whiteboarding with a human: progressive levels of design alignment, reducing cognitive load, and catching misunderstandings at the cheapest possible moment. https://t.co/axw3dnhjhI
Less than a year ago, Fred and I gave the closing keynote at SRECon25. I can hardly connect with the way I felt back then, or the pitch I made for why skeptical SREs should engage with AI. If I was...
I didn't write this to add to the noise about AI replacing jobs. I wrote it because the real story...human + AI achieving things neither can alone...needs to be the real story. "Work Reimagined" is a blueprint for exponential performance...
On one end, the Anthropic team is a massive user of AI to write code (80%+ of all code deployed is written by Claude Code). They ship amazingly fast. On the other hand, seeing these beyond terrible reliability numbers suggests there...
Terrific thread on agent orchestration architectures. "If an agent started making confident but wrong decisions, how many actions would execute before I could stop it?" The three magic words are "observability", "control flow ownership", and "interruption".
Migrating systems? Focus on replacing existing functionality one-for-one before adding new features. This phased approach ensures a smoother transition and allows for innovation later. #TechMigration #SystemUpgrade https://t.co/hQN18iMJ1F
Terrific new paper in the ACM from @shanselman and Mark Russinovich, proposing an apprenticeship model for junior engineers. https://t.co/XnQcH3emkj I'll add one thing. At every place that I have seen start hiring junior engineers in the last few years, that charge...
If you want to become good at system design, learn these 15 case studies (save this now):
I cannot stop thinking about the implications that Cloudflare / Vinext has on commercial open source, and in general, the cost of migrations, rewrites, and maintenance. One engineer, with AI, proved to be ~100x as efficient as before. This will have...
We will see much, much more of this happening. AI is changing open source incredibly rapidly. Rewriting an open source project to a new language/framework used to be a massive effort: AI is making it trivial as Cloudflare just showcased with...
