Kord Davis    In today’s fast-paced business environment, the ultimate goal of any data effort is to enable better decisions and drive meaningful organizational outcomes. Too often, data initiatives fail because they treat data or data culture as the final product. However, the journey to a data-driven...

Andy Kwan    Much like the introduction of the personal computer, the internet, and the iPhone into the public sphere, recent developments in the AI space, from generative AI to agentic AI, have fundamentally changed the way people live and work. Since ChatGPT’s release in late 2022, it’s reached a threshold of...

Tim O’Reilly    In a recent newsletter, Ben Thompson suggested paying attention to a portion of Jensen Huang’s keynote at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in DC, calling it an excellent articulation of the thesis that the AI market is orders of magnitude bigger than the software market. While I’m reluctant...

Ben Lorica    The following article originally appeared on Gradient Flow and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. We’re living through a peculiar moment in AI development. On one hand, the demos are spectacular: agents that reason and plan with apparent ease, models that compose original songs...

Eduardo Alvarez    The next time you use a tool like ChatGPT or Perplexity, stop and count the total words being generated to fulfill your request. Each word results from a process called inference the revenue-generation mechanism of AI systems where each word generated can be analyzed using basic financial and...

Mike Loukides    AI has so thoroughly colonized every technical discipline that it’s becoming hard to organize items of interest in Radar Trends. Should a story go under AI or programming (or operations or biology or whatever the case may be)? Maybe it’s time to go back to a large language model that doesn’t...

Mike Loukides    Everybody notices when something big fails like AWS’s US-EAST-1 region. And fail it did. All sorts of services and sites became inaccessible, and we all knew it was Amazon’s fault. A week later, when I run into a site that’s down, I still say, Must be some hangover from the AWS outage. Some cache...

Ben Lorica and Chris Butler    In this episode, Ben Lorica and Chris Butler, director of product operations for GitHub’s Synapse team, chat about the experimentation Chris is doing to incorporate generative AI into the product development process particularly with the goal of reducing toil for cross-functional teams. It isn’t...

Markus Eisele    This is the final part of a three-part series by Markus Eisele. Part 1 can be found here, and Part 2 here. In the first article we looked at the Java developer’s dilemma: the gap between flashy prototypes and the reality of enterprise production systems. In the second article we explored why new...

Tim O’Reilly    The electrical system warning light had gone on in my Kona EV over the weekend, and all the manual said was to take it to the dealer for evaluation. I first tried scheduling an appointment via the website, and it reminded me how the web, once a marvel, is looking awfully clunky these days. There [&]

Tim O'Brien    This article originally appeared on Medium. Tim O’Brien has given us permission to repost here on Radar. One of the most unexpected changes in software development right now comes from code generation. We’ve all known that it could speed up certain kinds of work, but what’s becoming clear is that...

Andrew Stellman    This article is part of a series on the Sens-AI Framework practical habits for learning and coding with AI. Read the original framework introduction and explore the complete methodology in Andrew Stellman’s O’Reilly report Critical Thinking Habits for Coding with AI. A few decades ago, I worked...

Markus Eisele    This is the second of a three-part series by Markus Eisele. Part 1 can be found here. Stay tuned for part 3. Many AI projects fail. The reason is often simple. Teams try to rebuild last decade’s applications but add AI on top: A CRM system with AI. A chatbot with AI. A search engine [&]

Kord Davis    In the modern enterprise, information is the new capital. While companies pour resources into artificial intelligence, many discover that technology, standing alone, delivers only expense, not transformation. The true engine of change lies not in the algorithm but in the hands and minds of the...

Ben Lorica and Drew Breunig    In this episode, Ben Lorica and Drew Breunig, a strategist at the Overture Maps Foundation, talk all things context engineering: what’s working, where things are breaking down, and what comes next. Listen in to hear why huge context windows aren’t solving the problems we hoped they might, why...