Vibe Coding, AI Disruption, and the Restructuring of the SaaS Market

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 →

Data Over Software

One of the first tasks I ever had in my then-new GIS career was doing AML development in ARC/INFO 6.x for a data production project. My code parsed DXF exported from AutoCAD R11 for DOS and then assigned attributes based on things like layer, color, line weight, feature type, and others. It also georeferenced the … Continue reading Data Over Software →

Give Me a Standard, Any Standard

I've spent the last year or so doing very little with geospatial technology, but I find myself missing it tremendously. Of course "in my blood" and "how I'm wired" and similar aphorisms apply to how I'm feeling, but that's not what really has me missing geospatial. In a shocking (for me) turn of events, I … Continue reading Give Me a Standard, Any Standard →