Tech & macro: understand before you decide

Understand where we are before deciding where to go. This cluster translates technical shifts into decision consequences, without requiring an engineering background to follow.

It opens with a primer — 70 years of AI history in one article — then tracks the shifts that matter: SLMs set to replace 70 % of LLM calls inside agents at a fraction of the cost, the architectures taking shape after LLMs (CALM, world models) just as Yann LeCun leaves Meta, and the move of compute to the edge that renders part of the cloud obsolete.

It also follows the economics: the collapsing cost of software, DeepSeek pulling off the cheaper-transformer trick again, the DORA 2025 report on AI-assisted development, and interfaces disappearing — Zero UI and agentic chains, which raise a question of observability before they raise one of technology.