Thoughts, observations, and reflections across evolving information technology landscapes. The ideas shared on this website come from personal experience, research, and observation across rapidly...

Dusted off my DSLR camera last weekend  Not everything that grows needs to be optimized. Spring runs on its own timeline, quiet, steady, and without urgency. Flowers don’t scale faster because we want...

In our previous two episodes, we explored some of less obvious but critical ripple effects of scaling AI systems. In Episode #1, we unpacked Hidden AI Cost Ripple #1: Compute Infrastructure Cost...

While compute infrastructure forms a foundation of AI’s cost structure, it is only the first ripple. As organizations move from experimentation to production, a second, often larger wave emerges of...

Preface: After writing about Linux and seeing how people responded, I realized there’s a deeper shift worth unpacking. What started with Linux as a shift in infrastructure is now accelerating with AI...

As we move into Q2 of 2026, enterprise AI has moved beyond mere experimentation into a phase of “operational reckoning.” While 90% of manufacturers and countless other enterprises are employing...