Kevin Stewart

It’s kinda wild how tech discourse went from using old-school dev tools to build cutting-edge AI apps to using cutting-edge AI dev tools to build old-school apps.

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Farewell DC. We barely knew ye.

Netflix Declines to Raise Offer for Warner Bros. Netflix said it it won't match Paramount's latest offer for WBD, walking away.

HBO is now effectively dead. This is truly terrible. I cannot think of a worse outcome. David Zaslav, may you rot. deadline.com/2026/02/netf...

Block shares soar 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.

Block (Square & Cash app maker) is laying off 4.000 of its 10,000 employees as part of an effort to "move faster with smaller, highly talented teams using AI to automate more work."

I've talked about this being the trend across big tech but this is even more drastic than I expected.

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You and me both

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

I’d just like to remind everyone that the only person actually getting paid by LOC is Sam Altman and his friends.