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Your Marketing Team Is Now a Software Vendor
platform-engineering

Your Marketing Team Is Now a Software Vendor

A DevOps engineer posted on r/devops this week with what reads like a familiar shadow-IT question dressed in 2026 clothes. Marketing, product, and sales people across his AI startup are shipping internal apps with Cursor and Claude Code. They deploy to Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify. The data is real.
Michael Tuszynski
4 min read

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Your Marketing Team Is Now a Software Vendor
platform-engineering

Your Marketing Team Is Now a Software Vendor

A DevOps engineer posted on r/devops this week with what reads like a familiar shadow-IT question dressed in 2026 clothes. Marketing, product, and sales people across his AI startup are shipping internal apps with Cursor and Claude Code. They deploy to Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify. The data is real.
Michael Tuszynski
4 min read
Anthropic Picked Tulsa
ai-strategy

Anthropic Picked Tulsa

Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13. Every read I've seen has focused on the product surface: 15 prebuilt agentic workflows, 7 named SaaS integrations, a trust posture built around in-the-loop approval and no-training-on-data defaults. The product is fine. The strategic signal is somewhere else. Read
Michael Tuszynski
4 min read
What Looks Like Busywork Is Mostly Rent
ai-strategy

What Looks Like Busywork Is Mostly Rent

Carl Frey's recent NYT piece argues that AI's real impact isn't job replacement — it's labor transfer from worker to consumer. We become our own travel agent, accountant, exterminator, doctor. The work doesn't disappear; it moves out of the labor statistics
Michael Tuszynski
4 min read
Build Like the Capex Already Left
ai-strategy

Build Like the Capex Already Left

In 2025, four companies — Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta — spent over $300 billion on AI data centers. The combined 2026 number is forecast at $725 billion, a 77% jump in a single year. For comparison, the entire global SaaS market in 2025 is roughly $295–370 billion depending on whose definition
Michael Tuszynski
4 min read
Brand on the CV Is a 2018 Heuristic
aws

Brand on the CV Is a 2018 Heuristic

Someone on r/devops just asked whether to take an AWS Cloud Support Engineer role for 18 months — trading hands-on building for "AWS internals exposure and the brand on the CV." Both replies told them not to. They're right, but for older reasons than they realize.
Michael Tuszynski
3 min read
Stop Paying by the Syllable
ai-pricing

Stop Paying by the Syllable

The first time you trim an eval because it costs too much to run, you have started letting the pricing model design your agent. The problem with token pricing for AI is not magnitude — tokens aren't expensive in aggregate, by knowledge-work standards. The problem is that the unit
Michael Tuszynski
4 min read
Write the Architecture Down First
agent-engineering

Write the Architecture Down First

A post hit the HN front page this morning titled "I'm going back to writing code by hand". It documents archiving seven months of vibe-coded work on a Kubernetes GPU TUI called k10s and rewriting from scratch. 75 points, 31 comments in the first hour. The
Michael Tuszynski
4 min read
Babysitter, Auditor, Prayer. Or Tests.
agent-engineering

Babysitter, Auditor, Prayer. Or Tests.

A short post argued this week that reliable agents need deterministic control flow, not more prompts. The argument is correct. The line that lands hardest in the piece is the one about a programming language where statements are suggestions and functions return "Success" while hallucinating. That is the
Michael Tuszynski
4 min read
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