Something quietly broke at Uber in early 2026. The company had budgeted a full year’s worth of spending on AI…
Think Again — About AI
Using Adam Grant’s ideas about rethinking to look at how we build, fund, and use artificial intelligence In his book…
Jumpstart’s Layered Architecture
The Jumpstart tool produces a layered architecture to make the resulting application focused and easy to maintain. Running jumpstart model.csv…
Microsoft’s MAI Launch and the Coming Commoditization of Compute
The announcement At Build 2026 on June 2, Microsoft introduced seven in-house MAI models, led by MAI-Thinking-1, its first flagship…
A Compute Commodity Clearinghouse
The AI compute market is, by most measures, a mess. GPU rental prices fluctuate by an order of magnitude across…
Designing Your Data Model with Jumpstart
Everything Jumpstart generates flows from a single CSV file. The quality and completeness of what you get out depends entirely…
Inside the Jumpstart Generator
Code generators are easy to dismiss as glorified string concatenation — some if statements and a few for loops stitched…
Jumpstart and AI: A Foundation for the Modern Development Stack
AI coding tools have changed the economics of software development. Tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT can generate…
Wind Farm Modeling Overview
Wind farms offer clean, renewable electricity. Operating and maintaining wind turbines profitably is another matter. This article provides a brief…
Using PowerShell for ETL
The Microsoft world offers BCP, .NET, and SSIS for moving data. BCP is fast and efficient, but is limited. Bespoke…