Mat Keep

As #AI models become commodities, the competitive advantage shifts to the #harness. Great read on why owning your execution loop beats vendor lock-in every time. x.com/aparnadhinak/s…

The #AI debate often asks: "How many jobs will AI replace?". This research suggests a better question: "Which companies will use AI to create more growth?" The biggest AI adopters were also the fastest hirers. AI appears to reward ambition, not cuts ramp.com/data/ai-jobs-i…

Everyone's chasing better models. The bigger competitive advantage is better data pipelines. The teams that build a data flywheel that continously feeds quality data to models will make their #AI smarter ahead of their competitors @ApacheAirflow thenewstack.io/ai-training-da…

We've spent two years obsessing over #GPUs, #AI model benchmarks and token pricing. The next question is much harder: how much intelligence are we actually buying? The companies that answer that will define the next phase of AI: exponentialview.co/p/the-state-of…

Interesting read. Seen others say #AI means smaller engineering teams. I'm not convinced. I think we'll see the same-sized teams delivering much more, with #softwareengineers, product, design and AI working far more fluidly together. lethain.com/revised-rules-…

Interesting thesis: code is becoming disposable, intent is the asset. Maintaining specs instead of code sounds compelling. My question is whether specs can stay complete enough to regenerate complex systems reliably. #softwareengineering #agenticAI thenewstack.io/codeplain-spec…

5 forces ending frontier #AI model dominance: 1. #OpenSourceIntelligence & models closing the gap 2. Enterprises capping #token spend 3. The harness > the model 4. Closed APIs have kill switches 5. Compute buildout stalling The renting era is over. 🔥 aspiringforintelligence.substack.com/p/frontier-no-…

Turns out you don't need a frontier model to know when your AI messed up. @LangChain + @fireworks_ai fine-tuned a model that beats GPT-5.5 at catching agent errors — at 100x lower cost. Cheaper and smarter: langchain.com/blog/building-…

We know #dataengineers spend hours investigating pipeline failures. Now Otto #agent from @astronomerio reads the logs, finds the root cause, spots recurring patterns, and suggests a fix. Finally, a teammate that enjoys reading logs: astronomer.io/blog/investiga…

Bigger isn't always better. Turns out 80% of #AI workloads don't need an expensive genius, just a fast, cheap model that gets it right. Great work @FireworksAI_HQ proving the point: techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/can…

“If u can catch it, you can ride it”. Thems the rules in these parts! At The Pig hotel in the New Forest

Frontier labs are running the same lock-in play #hyperscalers ran. Tooling layer capture, not token price, is the real risk. #opensource won the #cloudcomputing era. It'll win the #agenticAI one too langchain.com/blog/model-neu…

Turns out “world models” aren’t just #AI making pretty videos of cats in space. The real challenge is building systems that can predict, plan, and not immediately drive the robot into a wall...and if anyone should know, its the author drfeifei.substack.com/p/a-functional…

I’ve had worse starts to the week. Somewhere on the Med between the coasts of Spain and Morocco

With some help from @cyera_io, we finally measured how broken permissions are osohq.com/post/we-finall…

What's not to love - #opensource and #AI. @RedHat turns to @ApacheAirflow and @astronomerio to deliver #agenticAI astronomer.io/blog/airflow-i…

The next data stack shift: Old world → #ETL pipelines → dashboards New world → #context pipelines → #AI agents Models aren’t the bottleneck anymore. Context is. The winners will build the AI context layer: substack.com/home/post/p-19…

If #AI #agents become the primary “users” of #databases, a lot changes: query patterns, isolation, ephemeral environments. Interesting industry perspective. Keen to see how other database vendors approach this shift. thenewstack.io/databases-for-…

Visa-scale data orchestration I put together a new Airflow in Action case study on how @Visa runs @ApacheAirflow for critical #Analytics and data workflows, with a ready made #Context layer for #AI astronomer.io/blog/airflow-i…