In early February 2026, a sharp software-sector selloff, widely described in market commentary as the "SaaSpocalypse," erased hundreds of billions of dollars in SaaS and software-services market value. Anthropic's release of Claude Cowork plugins gave investors a concrete example around which to reprice a concern that had been building for more than a year: AI-assisted … Continue reading Vibe Coding, AI Disruption, and the Restructuring of the SaaS Market
AI Data Centers and the Risk of Stranded Infrastructure
Introduction The current data center boom appears to be an early-stage, brute-force response to the first wave of artificial intelligence demand. The market has encountered a rapid increase in demand for training, inference, and AI-enabled cloud services, and the immediate response has understandably been physical scale in the form of larger campuses, more megawatts, denser … Continue reading AI Data Centers and the Risk of Stranded Infrastructure
On Essays
A few weeks ago, I was on a catch-up Zoom call with a friend I hadn't chatted with in a while. He made mention of the recent uptick in my blogging activity and then, very good-naturedly, took me to task for using footnotes and citations. He joked that he was going to have to level … Continue reading On Essays
Life After AI
Every general-purpose technology reaches a point where it stops being the subject and becomes part of the foundation. The web passed through it, as did virtualization, the relational database, and cloud infrastructure. Few people now describe a product as running "in the cloud" as though that were the noteworthy fact about it. The capability has … Continue reading Life After AI
Applicability of Small Models for Agentic QA
I've been doing some recent work related to automating QA in AI workflows. Most recently, I built a small jury pool app to assess agreement across generated outputs, which got me interested in small models. It's a necessary step to ensure quality and precision, and it well-trodden by research. After running down a few rabbit … Continue reading Applicability of Small Models for Agentic QA




