- AI mania is overwhelming large companies, leading to irrational strategies and behaviors, as observed by consultant Nik Suresh.
- An executive at a $2B+ company admitted to never using ChatGPT or any AI tool, yet presented an AI-centered technical strategy.
- An engineer at a company with a token leaderboard used AI to rewrite a Go repository in Zig just to appear productive and keep their job.
- Corporate culture prevents honest discussion about AI limitations because contradicting exaggerated claims risks losing contracts and getting fired.
- Recent articles include: OpenAI's accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face, a fireside chat with the Claude Code team, and Kimi K3 and the pelican benchmark.