Been playing with ChatGPT to see how well it does authoring in my voice. tl;dr AI is still a poor writer that produces flat, anodyne writing. Still, I'm impressed by its ability to parse and synthesize large data sets and summarize it.
@mjasay
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Enterprise Java Lock-in: Survey Exposes Unwillingness to Change
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And 100% of those 82% will keep buying from Oracle, anyway. I love meaningless surveys like this (
https://
azul.com/blog/2025-stat
e-of-java-survey-confirms-majority-of-enterprise-apps-are-built-on-java-2/
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Community vibes alone won’t sustain a business long-term
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You can only live off positive community vibes for so long. At some point, a business has got to make money, not just friends. Yes, this is a subtweet.
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Stripe Processes $1 Trillion Payments on MongoDB Infrastructure
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Did you know @stripe processes over $1 trillion in payments (99.999% uptime), with 10K+ distinct query shapes over petabytes of financial data that lives in 5K+ collections distributed over 2K+ database shards …all on @MongoDB
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DataStax Enters New Phase with Industry Appreciation
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Even as I've competed against DataStax I've always appreciated their tech and the way the company operates. Great tech, great people. Good luck in this new phase.
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Grok AI Shows Transparent Reasoning on Open Source Questions
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I didn't want to agree but…I do. I love that Grok shows its "thinking," helping you see its data sources and how it's reaching conclusions. I asked "Is Matt Asay for or against open source?" bc it seems like something ppl often get wrong. Tl;dr answer was spot on:
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Closed Source Licensing Challenges in AI-Driven Technology Success
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How closed source licensing makes it harder for technologies to succeed in an AI-driven world (that depends on open training data)
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Career shaped by endless open source debates
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My career is just one circular open source argument over and over and over.
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Non-accountants mastering accounting skills in AI era
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ve mostly been surprised by the accounting masterclass from folks with (checks job histories) no accounting background.
