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My obituary for programming « dumbmatter.com
I know, I’m late to this.
I was very slow to use AI coding agents. It seems like a lot of programmers never actually liked programming and are thrilled to have a machine do it for them. But I like programming! That’s the fun part! Even for programmers who like programming, I know a lot of people feel like they have to use AI to keep up with the competition, especially in a tough job market. But my business is actually having one of its best years ever. So I figured, if I like programming, why not keep programming?
Salesforce and monday.com Shift AI Agent Pricing Beyond Seats
The decisive commercial battleground for enterprise agents will be control of the billing unit, not the nominal price attached to it. That is the strongest conclusion supported by the coexistence of Salesforce’s credits, actions, conversations, users and resolutions; monday.com’s seats-plus-credits model; and Meta’s proposed mix of subscriptions and token volume.
The Blog Post That Set the AI World on Fire – The Atlantic
An incendiary post from a prominent researcher suggests that AI is actually more predictable than we thought.
Swarm Intelligence – by Kevin Kelly – KK
Like a coral reef, an AI superorganism will be composed of thousands of species of minds.
Some of these AI minds might be very narrow and dim, just a notch above being stupid, maybe as smart as an insect. Others might be math geniuses. Most sub-AIs will be engineered in the middle to do specific boring and niche tasks.
What we can learn from industrial, blue collar AI | Constellation Research
Industrial companies, the ones that actually make stuff and keep the economy moving, are worth watching for how they will leverage AI. The industrial AI approach is decidedly practical, grounded in business reality and returns and designed to augment human labor that’s in short supply. You could call it blue collar AI.
After spending a week at IFS Unleashed 2026, this blue collar AI theme is worth watching. Industrial AI is one of the reasons to be optimistic about enterprise AI even as bubble fears dominate AI infrastructure chatter.
Here’s a look at some of the AI themes from industrial companies.
Stop sending me engineers: what OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft misread about enterprise AI | CIO
AI’s $10 billion deployment push won’t bring AI into the economy. Enterprises need fewer forward-deployed engineers and more domain experts who understand their business.
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