There's some truth to this. It's easier to market yourself as a specialist rather than a generalist... This doesn't make it easy.

Are we surprised? Not really... This kind of struggle was an obvious outcome from the heavy dependencies between both companies.

Here we go for a brand new marketing stunt from OpenAI. You can also tell the pressure is rising since all of this is still operating at a massive loss.

I'm still baffled people are coming with ideas like this for their businesses... The level of cynicism you must have to build such a startup.

Alright, this piece is full of vitriol... And I like it. The CES has clearly become a mirror of the absurdities our industry is going through. The vision proposed by a good chunk of the companies is not appealing and lazy.

Looks like the monopolists are vexed and are looking for arguments to discredit the competition... of all the arguments, this one is likely the most ridiculous seeing their own behavior.

Excellent satire, it summaries the situation quite well.

I guess this was just a matter of time, the obsession of "just make it bigger" was making most player myopic. Now this obviously collides with geopolitics since this time it's about a Chinese company being ahead.

Very nice editorial. It's clear that the level of trust in the technologies we depend on is low... but that's not due to the technologies themselves it's more about the business practices around them. In the end the solution will have to be political, in the meantime we ought to support the good players.

Good overview on how the databases landscape evolved the past year.

Or why making a dent in the enterprise software space is hard for FOSS... The good news is, it'd require setting up whole ecosystems of services.

An important white paper which probably went unnoticed. It gives a nice overview of the strategies one can build around Open Source components.

Good mulling for thought. It's always a bit challenging to nicely explain the tie between engineering metrics and how they impact the business. This is a nice starting point.

Very good piece explaining why the Ferdiverse is currently our only option for a decentralized social media platform. Maybe Bluesky will become another option... maybe... but so far it's only empty promises with a real risk of capture.

Can you see this kind of models getting abused quickly? Clearly it says something about the tech industry wanting to reduce costs.

Excellent post showing reasons to be skeptical about Bluesky's future. Despite all their likely sincere claims I don't see how they'll escape enclosure and enshittification when their sketchy VCs will want to see money back.

Indeed, we should stop listening to such people who are basically pushing fantasies in order to raise more money.

The arm race is still on-going at a furious pace. Still wondering how messy it will be when this bubble bursts.

This is a very harsh and bleak view on the current generative AI craze. Clearly it survives on some sort of weird faith that things will magically improve. Some decision makers clearly run fully on said faith and lost all kind of realistic view of the situation. They are just very disconnected from the user's needs.

There's even a funny quote in there: "Generative AI must seem kind of magical when your entire life is either being in a meeting or reading an email".

When this bubble bursts, it's hard to predict what the fallout will be on the tech industry... for sure it won't be pretty. It also begs the question: what is this industry going to do next? There's clearly no plan after generative AI.

There is a sane conversation going on around uv in the Python community. Here is a good summary.