I Finally Published the Book
Redundant is a novel about FinOps, organizational power, and the things companies do with the truth
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Essays and notes on AI, labor, and the stories that shape how we understand what's happening.
The Model Your Defenders Aren’t Allowed to Use
Why tightly governed organizations need an AI break-glass plan.
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The Benchmarks They Don’t Bring to the Announcement
Your Expensive Frontier Model Still Can't Read a Clock.
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The Oversight Gap
The pitch is full autonomy. The bill always comes due as a human who still has to understand the system.
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The Price Is Not Right
Two CNBC interviews, one week apart, and they're both saying the same thing from opposite directions.
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The Authenticity Recession
AI's hidden costs, forced adoption, and the slow erosion of trust.
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The Drill We're Not Running
In June, I wrote about knowledge decayhttps://medium.com/p/7b7736fc2d96 — the HBR piece about AI slop embedded at every step of a process...
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Nobody's Watching the Total
OpenRouter does something right that most providers don't. You can set a daily spend limit — $100/day, hard cap — and when you hit it, re...
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What's the Slow Boil?
In 1999 I started working at TheStreet.com, which at the time was what passed for a real financial news website.
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The Token Economy Is Eating the Internet
Something is happening to information that we don't have a word for yet. Every metric we use to measure the internet — page views, unique...
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The Slop Flood
curl is in billions of devices. It's the backbone of HTTP communication. If you used the internet today, curl was involved. And curl is, ...
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The Majority of the Internet Is Not Human
If you've run a website for any meaningful chunk of the last twenty years, you already knew this. Some percentage of your traffic was alw...
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The Ball Knew and the Judge Was Wrong
We don't need referees anymore. We just haven't told them.
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The Middle
For most of my career I've worked in the middle — not quite a developer, not quite an operator, which meant I wasn't fully claimed by eit...
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AI Capability Theater: Why Everyone’s Driving a Ferrari
Drive to work tomorrow and look around. You’re not surrounded by Ferraris. You’re surrounded by Subarus, Fords, and Toyotas — cars that g...
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No One Gets to Be Wrong Anymore
Here is what I have started to notice.
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Every New Technology Rewrites You a Little
In 1992 I could dial most of my friends from memory. Not because I sat down and memorized their numbers — you just absorbed them. You cal...
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You Helped Build This. You Can't Turn It Off.
A few things worth reading this week, and a thread that connects them.
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Tokens Aren't Dollars
I value the FinOps Foundation. I think JR is doing good work. But the pivot to "Tokenomics" — treating AI spend as a token-counting exerc...
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The Orchestrator
I dislike the term "citizen developerhttps://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/citizen-developer." It speaks down to peo...
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Read It Before You Send It
People are getting sick of your AI output. They really are.
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Multiple Versions of the Truth
There's a moment in every FinOps leader's career when you realize something uncomfortable. More than one team views itself as the authori...
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It's Not That Simple
FinOps is a combo discipline. Finance plus technical operations. That's not a weakness — it's the whole point. But it means you end up wi...
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When the Numbers Don't Back You Up
If you run FinOps at a large company, you've been in this meeting. Once or twice a year — more if it's a bad year — you get wheeled into ...
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The Ceiling
Here's something that happens to FinOps leaders. You do the job well enough that you start getting invited to meetings with EVPs and SVPs...
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The Base Is Under Attack
Listen to people talk about InfoSec these days — the conferences, the trade press, the vendor decks, the Slack threads — and you'll hear ...
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Who Gets to Be a Developer
The conversation about who belongs in software development has always had a weirdly exclusionary vibe to it. Not always loud. Not always ...
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Meet the Smart Freeway: It Tells You to Slow Down
California's first "smart freeway" cost $33 million for eight miles. It's a traffic light and a suggestion.
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The Scapegoat
Zack Giacomellihttps://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a71571068/bmw-dealership-trade-in-offer-accidentally-made-by-ai/ wanted to sell his 2021...
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Every Agent Key Is a Naked Call
In May, an AI agent tried to join — a hobbyist network where engineers practice BGP and DNS routing for fun.
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Your Permissions Model Was Built for Humans
Everyone setting up OpenClaw and Cursor and Windsurf and whatever's next — they're connecting agents to their GitHub, their AWS, their ev...
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Your AI Agent Shouldn't Be You
Why giving agents your credentials is the next major security disaster.
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The Subsidy Ends
The day is approaching when the subsidized AI era ends. It hasn't happened yet. But the signals are already visible if you're willing to ...
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The Headcount Delusion
There's a new kind of pitch making its way through boardrooms, and it goes something like this: stop thinking about headcount and start t...
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