At a private dinner a few months ago, Jensen Huang apparently said what I’ve been thinking for some time. The US is significantly behind China in AI development. Here are some of the reasons. Huang starts with the ratio of AI developers in China (he estimates 1 million) to AI developers in the US (20,000). […]

Papers on agentic and multi-agent systems (MAS) skyrocketed from 820 in 2024 to over 2,500 in 2025. This surge suggests that MAS are now a primary focus for the world’s top research labs and universities. Yet there is a disconnect: While research is booming, these systems still frequently fail when they hit production. Most teams […]

This post first appeared on Nick Tune’s Medium page and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I have been using Claude Code for a variety of purposes, and one thing I’ve realized is that the more it understands about the functionality of the system (the domain, the use cases, the end-to-end flows), the […]

For 30 years, digital commerce has been a destination. We “go to” a website, a marketplace, or an app. In this single, bundled environment, we handle discovery, comparison, and checkout. The entire architecture of the web, from product pages to payment gateways, is built on this assumption. This assumption is now facing its first real […]

The hard truth about AI scaling is that for most organizations, it isn’t happening. Despite billions in investment, a 2025 report from the MIT NANDA initiative reveals that 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots fail to deliver measurable business impact. This isn’t a technology problem; it’s an organizational design problem. The reason for this systemic […]

If you wanted any evidence that AI had colonized just about every aspect of computing, this month’s Trends would be all you need. The Programming section is largely about AI-assisted programming (or whatever you want to call it). AI also claims significant space in Security, Operations, Design, and (of course) Things. AI in the physical […]

This post first appeared on Mike Amundsen’s Signals from Our Futures Past newsletter and is being republished here with the author’s permission. We’re long past the novelty phase of AI-assisted coding. The new challenge is measurement. How do we know whether all this augmentation—Copilot, Cursor, Goose, Gemini—is actually making us better at what matters? The […]

This post first appeared on Aman Khan’s AI Product Playbook newsletter and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Let me start with some honesty. When people ask me “Should I become an AI PM?” I tell them they’re asking the wrong question. Here’s what I’ve learned: Becoming an AI PM isn’t about chasing […]

This post first appeared on Nick Tune’s Weird Ideas and is being republished here with the author’s permission. A well-crafted system prompt will increase the quality of code produced by your coding assistant. It does make a difference. If you provide guidelines in your system prompt for writing code and tests, coding assistants will follow […]

Evals are having their moment. It’s become one of the most talked-about concepts in AI product development. People argue about it for hours, write thread after thread, and treat it as the answer to every quality problem. This is a dramatic shift from 2024 or even early 2025, when the term was barely known. Now […]

This post first appeared on Will Larson’s blog, Irrational Exuberance, and is being republished here with the author’s permission. As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life. This is also a question that your company asks about you every performance […]

Coauthoring a book can be a challenge. While the authors share a common goal, each might have a different writing style, voice, and writing cadence, as well as specific ways of organizing a chapter. Most of these differences are easily remedied through an initial virtual session where the authors agree on a consistent style, format, […]

The following article originally appeared on Mike Amundsen’s Substack Signals from Our Futures Past and is being republished here with the author’s permission. There’s an old hotel on a windy corner in Chicago where the front doors shine like brass mirrors. Each morning, before guests even reach the step, a tall man in a gray coat […]

My father spent his career as an accountant for a major public utility. He didn’t talk about work much; when he engaged in shop talk, it was generally with other public utility accountants, and incomprehensible to those who weren’t. But I remember one story from work, and that story is relevant to our current engagement […]

In preparation for our upcoming Building SaaS Businesses with AI Superstream, I sat down with event chair Jason Gilmore to discuss the full lifecycle of an AI-powered SaaS product, from initial ideation all the way to a successful launch. Jason Gilmore is CTO of Adalo, a popular no-code mobile app builder. A technologist and software […]