opinionNobody's agent fleet fails the way the vendors say it willThe model gets the attention. In my fleet, the serious failures came from schedulers, shell assumptions, expired credentials and safety checks that were never actually running.By Suneet Malhotra Aug 20, 2026 10 minsArtificial IntelligenceDevopsSoftware DeploymentopinionAccelerating AI innovation through open weightsOpen weights benefit vendors seeking disruption, companies that don’t need expensive frontier models, and any business that doesn’t want to be locked in to any particular provider. By Matt Asay Aug 18, 2026 8 minsArtificial IntelligenceGenerative AIOpen SourcefeatureA smarter, structured approach to generative UIGenerative UI needs a component system, not arbitrary AI-generated code at run time. Call it structured UI intent. By Sonu Kapoor Aug 18, 2026 15 minsArtificial IntelligenceDevelopment ApproachesGenerative AIreviewsI ran the tiny Bonsai model on my tiny GPU. Here’s how it performedBonsai 27B is a multi-billion parameter model small enough to fit into a smartphone. It’s useful for dev and research work, but comes with trade-offs. By Serdar Yegulalp Aug 17, 2026 7 minsArtificial IntelligenceGenerative AIhow-toAgentic AI in the enterprise: How to balance autonomy with constraintsAgentic systems operate well when autonomy sits inside explicit constraints. Constraints turn agent behavior into something teams can measure, improve, and trust.By Adnan Masood Aug 17, 2026 8 minsArtificial IntelligenceGenerative AISoftware DevelopmentopinionThe tug-of-war between AI and traditional cloud servicesThe AI revenue surge is impressive, but enterprise IT still relies on the core services that made the public cloud valuable in the first place. Providers would do well to remember.By David Linthicum Aug 18, 2026 7 minsGenerative AIIaaSSaaSopinionI've built data pipelines on AWS, Azure and Snowflake. Here's what Palantir Foundry did that surprised meA senior data engineer's honest first impressions after a Palantir Foundry bootcamp, including what it does better, what it does not and whether the cost makes sense for your organization.By Sashank Siwakoti Aug 17, 2026 8 minsAmazon Web ServicesData EngineeringMicrosoft AzureopinionCloud ops is different in a neocloudAI-focused cloud providers can deliver attractive economics and scarce GPU capacity, but they are not administered the same way as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.By David Linthicum Aug 14, 2026 7 minsArtificial IntelligenceCloud ArchitectureCloud SecurityfeatureRelief from the bookkeeping of change managementMany change management processes are necessarily heavyweight. But for changes that are reversible, there’s an opportunity to lighten the load. By Joseph Michela Aug 13, 2026 7 minsCloud ComputingCloud ManagementDevopsopinionWhy AI models need a real-time web intelligence layerWithout a reliable data access layer that integrates context-aware data streams into AI workflows, even advanced models will produce inconsistent results. By Uri Knorovich Aug 13, 2026 7 minsArtificial IntelligenceData ManagementGenerative AIopinionMCP didn't remove sessions. It handed them to the modelMCP makes models carry session handles, improving scalability while making reliable correlation and authorization an application concern.By Karthik Karunanithi Aug 13, 2026 9 minsArtificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingDevelopment ToolsopinionTokenmaxxing: The strangest developer productivity metric of all timeWhen AI token consumption becomes a measure of excellence, software suffers. Why tokenmaxxing is engineering’s most troubling trend.By Matthew Tyson Aug 12, 2026 9 minsDeveloperGenerative AIRoles