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Published June 13, 2026 1. What Happened Yesterday At 5:21 PM Eastern Time on June 12, 2026, Anthropic received a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ordering the company to…
Read more →Andrew Baker — andrewbaker.ninja — 13 June 2026 How to use a large language model inside your own AWS account to interrogate your infrastructure while it is on fire So…
Read more →1. Management and Leadership Are Not the Same Thing There is a fundamental confusion in how organizations talk about leadership, because we use the word interchangeably with management and we…
Enterprise technology vendors are facing a pipeline crisis nobody talks about openly. The gap between a signed sales lead and a completed implementation is running at two to three years…
Read more →1. Two causes, one bill AWS cost posture problems in product accounts come from two distinct sources, and most remediation frameworks conflate them, which is why so much cost optimisation…
Read more →Ride’s “Chrome Waves” is a 1992 B-side that most people will not know, and one of its lines has lodged itself in my thinking about African banking: “this strange machinery,…
The mistake is not synchronous processing. The mistake is dragging unrelated work inside the synchronous boundary. 1. What Users Actually Experience as Real Time There is a particular type of…
Agentic systems should not remove humans from deployment. They should remove irreversible decisions, and that distinction is the entire argument. Every SaaS vendor suddenly has an AI story: AI powered…
Read more →Most cloud governance programmes begin with good intentions and eventually collapse under their own weight. The team starts with a handful of useful controls, someone adds tagging standards, another team…
Read more →There is a meaningful difference between running Claude Code and running it well. The agent is doing serious work: reading your codebase, modifying files, running tests, interpreting output, and looping…
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