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Three years ago, if someone dropped "vector database" or "retrieval-augmented generation" into a conversation, you assumed they'd actually touched one. Today those words show up in job postings, LinkedIn bios, and interview answers from people who learned them the same afternoon, from the
Uber's CTO said it plainly: "I'm back to the drawing board, because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already." This wasn't a startup that moved recklessly. Uber has 5,000 engineers, a mature FinOps practice, and professional procurement.
There's a question I keep hearing from engineering and IT leaders right now, usually with genuine confusion behind it: We've rolled out AI tools across the team, everyone says they're more productive, so why does nothing feel faster? I've been sitting with
Apple just handed its CEO job to a hardware engineer. Intel's revival is being run by a chip-industry lifer who spent a decade leading a design-tools company. After twenty years of boards picking leaders for their command of the income statement, the pendulum is visibly swinging