Toots from 2026-01-27#
On average, indexing on average latency is not informative.#
On average, indexing on average latency is not informative.
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âMost AI initiatives struggle not because the technology isnât ready. Because the organizatio…#
âMost AI initiatives struggle not because the technology isnât ready. Because the organization isnât ready. Data isnât organized. Processes arenât documented. Nobodyâs assigned to validate outputs.â
https://techtrenches.dev/p/rag-is-easy-your-data-isnt
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âBut this doesnât mean you stop caring. It means you get strategic about when to spend your c…#
âBut this doesnât mean you stop caring. It means you get strategic about when to spend your credibility. Pick the battles where you can actually change the outcome, where your team will be hurt if you stay silent, where the cost of being wrong is low but the cost of the project failing is high.â
https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/
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âAnd those questions are beautiful training data for those same models. Everything that used to…#
âAnd those questions are beautiful training data for those same models. Everything that used to be asked in a public forum, visible to everyone, is now a private confession to an LLM that tells you you’re smart for asking such insightful questions. They’ll never judge you, they’ll never tell you that you’re holding it wrong, because it’s the questions you ask that feed them.â
https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop
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âThis is why you see siloed work and multiple systems that seem to do the same thing. Itâs be…#
âThis is why you see siloed work and multiple systems that seem to do the same thing. Itâs because it requires less effort to work within your organization then to coordinate across organization, the incentive is to do localized work whenever possible, in order to reduce those costs.â
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/01/24/because-coordination-is-expensive/
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âWe have a few dozen, at most, looking at health care, a $5 trillion sector. In other words, th…#
âWe have a few dozen, at most, looking at health care, a $5 trillion sector. In other words, the Federal agencies looking at all of corporate America have just 0.5% of the resources that DHS got in additional money solely to deport people. And this puny under-funded group is what Griffin was complaining about as tyranny.â
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-what-the-ice-raids
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âOne day, you arrive at work only to find your team replaced by a hundred hyperactive teenagers…#
âOne day, you arrive at work only to find your team replaced by a hundred hyperactive teenagers. Those teenagers have googled everything and believe they know it all. They are excited about their first job, curious, restless, and eager to start working on their keyboards. Your task is to organize this team to achieve the same results much faster.â
https://www.subbu.org/articles/2026/100-teenager-dev-problem/
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âAI doesnât just create fake content; it creates doubt about what is real. That is more power…#
âAI doesnât just create fake content; it creates doubt about what is real. That is more powerful. You donât need to convince people the fake is real. You only need to convince them the real might be fake.â
https://om.co/2026/01/26/does-evidence-even-matter/
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âYou probably noticed we are not validating the generated filter for pragmatic correctness. Tha…#
âYou probably noticed we are not validating the generated filter for pragmatic correctness. That task is the hardest challenge: The filter parses (syntactic) and uses real fields (semantic), but is it what the user meant?â
https://netflixtechblog.com/the-ai-evolution-of-graph-search-at-netflix-d416ec5b1151