Alan Shimel

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AI industry, enterprise ai

The AI Industry Is Rediscovering Systems Engineering

May 20, 2026

The companies that ultimately win the enterprise AI market may not necessarily be the ones with the smartest models. Those models are increasingly becoming accessible commodities. The bigger challenge is operationalizing institutional knowledge in ways enterprises can trust.

Open Source is Trying to Stop AI Lock-In Before it Happens

May 19, 2026

The fight over AI infrastructure will not be decided by models alone. It will be decided by who controls orchestration, governance, execution and interoperability. Detailed analysis of the emerging enterprise risk around AI infrastructure lock-in, highlighting why open standards and open source control planes are essential to preserving long-term operational leverage.

Has AI Gotten Out Ahead of Its Skis?

April 30, 2026

AI is accelerating fast, but its economics, infrastructure, and financing are all showing strain. The issue isn’t whether AI works. It’s whether everything required to support it can keep up.

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Einstein, AI and Time Dilation

April 27, 2026

AI acceleration isn’t just speeding things up. It’s creating a widening gap between those operating on AI time and those still stuck on human time.

The Jagged Peaks and Valleys of AI Intelligence

April 16, 2026

AI can solve Olympiad-level math problems and write production code in seconds. Yet the same system can fail at questions a human child would answer without thinking. That contradiction tells us something important about what AI really is.

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Hello God, It’s Me, Claude

April 15, 2026

Anthropic’s summit with Christian leaders suggests that even the engineers building the most advanced AI systems may be searching for moral guidance outside Silicon Valley.

Anthropic Said No to the Pentagon. Now We Know Why

April 14, 2026

Anthropic’s Mythos model can autonomously find vulnerabilities and generate exploits. If even half of what we are hearing about it is true, the company’s standoff with the Department of Defense suddenly makes a lot more sense.

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