The revolution will be ticketed
If you are a bold entrepreneur who wants to change the world with ambitious artificial intelligence technologies, how should you do that? Two answers seem obvious:Build ambitious artificial intelligence...
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The agentic future has a technical debt problem
In the early days of cloud, companies raced to migrate workloads before they’d figured out how to monitor them. Move fast and instrument later was the operating model at the time. Unfortunately, these organizations...
Attention Is All You Have
In the agentic era, leadership means designing what your machines notice, optimize, and repeatContinue reading on Data Science Collective »
How to Work and Compound with AI
Context as infra, taste as config, verification for autonomy, scale via delegation, closing the loop.
Leaderbored
From a conversation with a smart friend,1 a fun theory:To do AI, you need a bunch of very fancy computers. However, because lots of people want to do lots of AI, there is a shortage of these computers. In a few years,...
Flying cars, Anthropic’s Mythos model leak, Meta’s creepy surveillance, and a $355 quintillion…
30 AI news stories from April 2026, ranked from boardroom to bizarreContinue reading on Medium »
Sequoia Ascent 2026 summary
I did a fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026. The YouTube video is here: YouTube Video Link As an experiment, I fed an LLM all of my recent blog posts and tweets, then I had it read this video's transcript and produce...
The 5 Silent Failures in Data Pipelines
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋After putting together the data pipeline foundations piece last week I realized there was another topic I really wanted to cover.That is, the silent ways...
We surveyed senior data & AI leaders. Most can’t define “AI-ready.”
71% say they’re actively preparing. Only 29% have a documented definition of what that means.Earlier this year, Monte Carlo partnered with CDO Magazine to survey senior data and AI executives, primarily at large...
Memory architecture for proactive agents
Moving from “what should I recall?” to “what should I notice?” and other challenges in building a proactive multi-agent systemMemories in the context of a lineage graph. Image provided by the authors.Co-authored with...
Build yourself flowers
This is an edited transcript of the keynote I gave at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA in April 2026. I first wrote a draft of this talk by hand. This part took 2 months. I then recorded...
Data Pipeline Foundations - Everything You Need To Know About Data Pipelines
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋Over the past few years, I’ve written plenty of articles on data pipelines. So I decided to put together those articles and create a central place...
My Workflow for Understanding LLM Architectures
Many people asked me over the past months to share my workflow for how I come up with the LLM architecture sketches and drawings in my articles, talks, and the LLM-Gallery. So I thought it would be useful to document...
Mechanical sympathy
Weaver, seen from the Front, Vincent van Gogh, 1884 Something that’s been floating around in my head lately is the idea that I don’t know any truly good engineers who are also not good at at product design....
Daily Tasks With Data Pipelines - Data Quality Checks And The Problem With Noisy Checks
Every morning, your team wakes up to 137 data quality alerts.132 are ignored.3 are acknowledged, maybe you even reach out to the producers of the errors, but they are ignored…2 get fixed.Ok, that might be a bit of...
On Programming Joy and Octocat
While GitHub has been busy losing its last nine of availablility, I’ve been thinking about how the internet used to be. Not the internet people talk about from the 90s, but the internet that we used to have even...
Components of A Coding Agent
In this article, I want to cover the overall design of coding agents and agent harnesses: what they are, how they work, and how the different pieces fit together in practice. Readers of my Build a Large Language Model...
The Revenge of the Data Scientist
img.img-fluid { border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); border-radius: 4px; } Is the heyday of the data scientist over? The Harvard Business Review once called it “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.”1 In tech,...
State of Context Engineering in 2026
👋 I am Aurimas. I write the SwirlAI Newsletter with the goal of presenting complicated Data related concepts in a simple and easy-to-digest way. My mission is to help You UpSkill and keep You updated on the...
A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs
I had originally planned to write about DeepSeek V4. Since it still hasn’t been released, I used the time to work on something that had been on my list for a while, namely, collecting, organizing, and refining the...