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Systems under pressure
How constraints, benchmarks, and the shape of a problem change what counts as progress.
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AI & SYSTEMS
AI throughput and the hidden constraint
AI has given a lot of people a new way to misunderstand throughput.
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The Main Street benchmark for AI
Most AI benchmarks are intellectual beauty pageants for systems that would drown inside a dentist office.
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A terminal window is not product-market fit
A terminal window is not product-market fit.
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When scarcity did our thinking for us
When creation was expensive, scarcity did some of our thinking for us.
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