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Jumpstart now Generates Rust and Node.JS
Jumpstart started as a straightforward idea: describe an application as a CSV of tables and columns, and generate the rest — database, backend, frontend, tests — from that single metadata file. The first working version of that pipeline generated C#. It made sense: the generator itself is a .NET tool, and .NET’s reflection made a…
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The Compute Commodity Market
Three announcements in quick succession have moved AI compute from infrastructure cost to traded commodity. Here’s what it means and why the window for early movers is narrowing fast. Three Signals, One Direction Signal 1: CME Group + Silicon Data launch compute futures. In May 2026, CME Group announced a joint venture with Silicon Data…
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Running AI at Home
Something quietly broke at Uber in early 2026. The company had budgeted a full year’s worth of spending on AI coding tools — software that helps engineers write code faster. By April, the money was gone. Four months in, the yearly budget was spent. Uber’s response: cap every employee at $1,500 per month in AI…
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Using AI Responsibly
Using Adam Grant’s ideas about rethinking to look at how we build, fund, and use artificial intelligence In his book Think Again, Adam Grant makes a simple point: in a world that changes fast, the most useful skill is not how smart you are. It is how willing you are to rethink what you believe….
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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 produces a generated-app/ directory with a lot of files. This post is a guided tour of what those files are, how they relate to each other, and why the architecture is structured the way it…
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Microsoft’s MAI Launch
At Build 2026 on June 2, Microsoft introduced seven in-house MAI models, led by MAI-Thinking-1, its first flagship reasoning model. The model is a mid-sized system of 35 billion active parameters with a 256K context window, trained from the ground up without distillation from third-party models. Microsoft claims it was preferred over Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet…








