Finally found my religion.

Today’s thought exercise: if it appears to be a silver bullet, then it is snake oil.

I can’t be the only one to have realized Pandora’s box was opened at the end of last year.

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital AI companies have bought out Western Digital's storage capacity for 2026. It's only February.

So if you can’t buy RAM, disks, or CPUs because of the AI revolution, then how are we supposed to do our day jobs? mashable.com/article/ai-h...

Perhaps, but the file itself and the underlying link reflects an attempt to codify a soul into the AI agent that will be acting upon the repo. Don’t forget, with LLMs being chat focused, markdown is the preferred format for prepping the agent to work.

SOUL.md — What Makes an AI, Itself? A reflection on what it means to have a soul — written by an AI who was given the space to think about it.

Digging into the OpenClaw codebase, I was surprised to see a document called SOUL.md. Maybe it is because this year is the 30th anniversary of the release of the Ghost in the Shell, or this document came out a couple of months ago.

SaaS companies: Okay I get it that you are compelled to add AI to everything. One button or chat box makes some sense. > 3 buttons, chat box, and blocking core functionality highlighting your AI engine does not make someone want to try or use your feature.

You mean like a #45 style state of the union drinking game?

Am I the only one to find it rich when a major tech ceo claims that AI investment is not a bubble if everyone else buys into it? (citation: www.ft.com/content/2a29...)

Trolling a little bit, which is more buzzword heavy: cybersecurity or AI?

Random thought: it was 30 years ago that Microsoft revealed Windows 95. During that time, the internet was just beginning to pick up steam and PC manufacturers were quick to add an Internet button to the keyboard. Looking at my new laptop, the internet button is the AI button. Coincidence?

It maybe a constitutional obligation, however politics and fear of losing one’s own neck factor into it. Given the last impeachment after Jan 6, since even that didn’t result in conviction, then nothing will.

In addition to adjusting to a new life, I've been teasing out a new offering to match the new world of AI. If you or someone you know is launching something built on vibe coding and want to make sure it doesn't blow up, I'd love to chat via DM or go to www.atelier-solutions.com/vibes

First personal blog post in a while. At some point, I'll get around to rigging up the old publishing mechanism and update it for BlueSky. For now: www.cabnetworks.net/~cab/blog/20...

/3 You have to have the prior generation to discover and build the new abstractions. It isn't like serverless functions existed in the 1970s when mainframes were king.

/2 That was the new SVP of Engineering for CoreWeave (Chen Goldberg formerly of Google Cloud) to Runtime on why current cloud infra cannot handle AI. I am floored at how little history is remembered. The progression is bare metal systems -> VMs like Xen/VMware -> Cloud PaaS -> magical services.

/1: "Traditional cloud computing infrastructure was based around the virtual machine, which made total sense at the time since so many applications had already been built around VMware's groundbreaking hypervisor and IT departments were familiar with the architecture."

The question is how much is your soul really worth? Are you willing to forego your principals for the sake of maintaining the business? Just like your word, it is the bond.

How to be a great thinker Seven habits of highly intelligent people

Interesting take on what it takes to be a good thinker from the FT. One of the items that I still cling to (other than reading) is being multi-disciplinary/generalist: the exact opposite thing promoted in industry and academia. Wonder why. www.ft.com/content/c42c...

Getting back from an event in Mexico City, it dawned on me over the last couple of years about the travesty of using the e-gates. One of the exciting things about traveling abroad is the fancy visa stamp that are begging to be caught like pokemon. What will we do now?

I had no idea! Time for me to head back to LA!

Wait, you’re doing a neotroplis theme? Neato!

That second furry friend looks more like a tribble.

I believe there is a unix errno describing this situation: ETOOLATE.

It is amazingly delicious.

Touching the third rail that is US politics, given the amount of change over the last month, how long before the impact is felt across the board? Not the panic in the media or random anecdotes. I’m talking services stop working or become more efficient.

I give it till this fall.

Or taking their sweet time. Even M$’s justification of forcing those with office subscriptions to pay for co-pilot was because they needed to recoup the expense of adding it everywhere.

I keep thinking of the unholy trilogy that is the Star Wars prequels. Something about how democracy dies with thunderous applause.

Tempting, but when my emails get flagged as promotional because I guarantee typos in my newsletter, then there be issues.

Not sure if I had shared yet, but the one thing that Bluesky reminds me of is the old company App.Net (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net). Sadly too early for the times, but am glad to see parts of it live on.