Before you consume something powerful, you check what’s inside. AI skills are a recent invention. And marketplaces to share and reuse skills formed almost immediately…

Today’s AI is energy-intensive. I get many questions about it. And it is true: today’s AI is largely a brute-force approach…

Remember the market drop on May 6th, 2010? The Dow Jones lost 560 points in four minutes. Perceived risk spiked, market participants pulled out, and a stampede followed, temporarily annihilating roughly one trillion dollars in market value…

Remember when you played Minecraft for the first time? Building in 3D felt simple and endless. I assume few would have guessed that this game would become a serious training and evaluation ground for AI agents…

Chances are, you started the year with good resolutions. I applaud you. And maybe you acquired a scratchbook to journal your journey…

Remember when you were a child on Silvester and were allowed to light a small firework for the first time? Chances are you were in awe, a little scared, and fascinated by the light at the same time. You kept your distance, careful about the splinters - and drawn to it…

Remember how you learned to ride a bike? With the help of your parents or a friend, you acquired a skill through repetition and feedback (well, falling, actually ;). Skills are also the AI trend this week…

Most of us use ready-made LLMs - they’re reliable, versatile and tested. But sometimes, you need to train your own. Andrej Karpathy’s llm.c shows how to train a small model on sequences, like lines from Shakespeare, by turning each word into a number and learning which comes next…

When ants search for food, they try paths, explore, and when they find something, they let the others know. A simple tactic. If you’ve ever had ants in your kitchen, you know how effective it is…

“Optical character recognition (OCR) is a solved problem.” That’s a common conviction in the industry: it is often treated as a mature technology. A commodity we can stop worrying about…

Is today’s AI imperfect? Yes. Should we ignore it…

After months of writing, editing, and refining … my upcoming book The Modern AI and Data Platform is almost here. It’s a collection of 42 short, fun-to-read chapters capturing everything we’ve learned about building powerful, future-proof platforms that create real value from data and AI, including the human side: culture, collaboration, and clarity. The book is structured in three parts: why AI belongs at the core, what defines a modern architecture, and how to turn principles into practice…

When you open a mechanical watch, the first thing you notice is motion: dozens of moving parts. A marvel of alignment. Gears, springs, and jewels in perfect interplay…

AI without the right data is like a detective chasing the wrong lead. You look busy, but you won’t solve the case. The data model is the case board on the wall, the evidence map that guides every move…

Fast food feels great in the moment: hot, salty French fries land on your tray within seconds. What looks good and tempting often leaves you disappointed and with little lasting value. Using AI can feel similar…

A Fata Morgana can be a pretty mirage. And for the thirsty traveler, a deadly trap: the shimmer looks like salvation but turns out to be an illusion all along. Hallucinations in LLMs carry similar risks…

Inherent complexity is the difficulty in the business problem; artificial complexity is the extra friction we add through design and org choices. Think Michelangelo: the figure is “already in the marble,” and the work is to remove what is not essential. When integrating AI into real workflows, we address business problems…