AI needs young developers – and old developers

Enterprises are increasingly investing copious amounts of cash in AI without a lot to show for it. This could be, in part, because the wrong people are leading the change. As I’ve argued before⁠, AI isn’t likely to eliminate developers so much as change what we need...

OpenAI buys Ona to help rein in AI agents

CIOs and CISOs have many strategic and operational fears when it comes to unleashing fully-autonomous agents on tasks and hoping that everything works out. Will the agent start to delete critical files? Will the agent go off on a mission tangent and generate a massive...

Why cloud outages are such a stubborn problem

For years, the cloud market has made a simple promise: Move workloads to large-scale platforms, gain better resilience, and worry less about downtime. That promise was never entirely wrong, but it is becoming less complete. The latest findings from Uptime...