Intellectual Context A team from Palantir Technologies and MIT published a paper in 2023 called Concept-Centric Software Development that formalized an observation most experienced developers already share. The concepts underlying a software system, the functional…
Last week I posted about a targeting system built in five days on IBM Spectrum Symphony, BrainChip’s Akida, and Palantir’s Foundry. The response was significant enough to warrant a deeper argument, one that goes beyond…
A recent essay in Comment magazine asks a question worth taking seriously: “What is the University For?” The author is a philosopher at Notre Dame who directs the university’s ethics initiative. The essay argues that…
Yesterday I posted about building a targeting system in five days with IBM Spectrum Symphony,BrainChip Akida, and Palantir Technologies AIP Foundry. Here is the architecture, how each layer works, what connects them, how data stays…
On February 26, Anthropic’s CEO published a statement refusing to remove safety guardrails from Claude at the Pentagon’s demand. The Department of War wanted unrestricted use of course and Anthropic said no, willing to lose…
A certain kind of argument about AI and software development has settled into the discourse with the comfort of received wisdom. The argument goes roughly as follows: generative AI makes developers faster but the code…
The technology industry has settled on a word for nearly every major platform initiative of the last decade: modernization. Kubernetes adoption is modernization. Cloud migration is modernization. AI integration is modernization. However, language shapes thought…
The notion that the AI economy is headed for a crash is a narrative that’s been in play for awhile now. The numbers appear unsustainable. Global spending will probably hit $500 billion through 2026. Financial…
A Collaborative Response to “The Adolescence of Technology” I. The Question Amodei Doesn’t Ask Dario Amodei’s essay “The Adolescence of Technology” is among the most sophisticated articulation to date of the security paradigm for thinking…
Terraform Codebase Analysis and Refactoring Below a detailed analysis is provided comparing the original resource-driven organization of the Terraform code with a concept-driven restructuring along with suggestions as to how we might refactor it. Project…