David Aronchick articles - 23 total
The Brownian Ratchet for Data
Monday I wrote about how multiclaude and GasTown converged on nearly identical primitives for...
The Brownian Ratchet and the Chimpanzee Factory
Two weeks ago, Steve Yegge released GasTown, a multi-agent orchestrator he describes as "an...
The Upstream Problem: Why Context Graphs Are Starving
Foundation Capital just published what they're calling AI's trillion-dollar opportunity: context...
The $1B AI Drug Lab That Can't Touch Its Own Data
Nvidia and Eli Lilly announced a $1 billion AI drug discovery lab today at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare...
Your 2026 Resolution: Add Context to Your Data (Before It Breaks You)
Last week I sat in an executive review where two teams spent forty minutes arguing about "active...
The Natasha Problem: Why Your Data Pipeline Only Fits One Person
For most folks, you probably don’t think about clothing sizes. There’s a number, you pick it, you try...
A Picture Is Worth Ten Thousand Tokens
"A picture is worth a thousand words" has been greeting-card wisdom for a century, the kind of thing...
NVIDIA Bought the Bouncer: SchedMD and Where Lock-In Actually Lives
On December 15, 2025, NVIDIA acquired SchedMD, a 40-person company based in Lehi, Utah. The price...
Edge ML Has a Size Obsession
UPS could deliver your Amazon package on a cargo e-bike. In most cities, for most packages, this...
Emergence vs. Engineering: The Industry Just Bet Against the God Model
Monday, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and AWS jointly donated their agent infrastructure to...
🎄 On the First Day of Debugging: The Twelve Characters of Christmas
🎵 On the first day of debugging, production gave to me: An emoji that broke awk's field count tree...
Multi-Everything: Why Your Data Strategy Is Harder Than Your Cloud Strategy
An Uber engineer gave a great talk at Kubecon I have wanted to write about: “...we end up having to...
The Bronze Tier is Far From Gold: Avoiding Toxic Assets (And Other Medallion Architecture Lies)
LET'S SAY you're a hot new drone company. Doing, I don't know, crowd counting at festivals. One 4K...
NVIDIA Built the Most Powerful Chips Ever. Google Trained the World's Best AI Without Them.
In 2020, NVIDIA released the A100 with 54 billion transistors, 80GB of memory, and 2 TB/s bandwidth....
While We're Measuring Developer Productivity, Won't Someone Think of the Data Engineers?
Nicole Forsgren just dropped a new book, and I absolutely CONSUMED it. It's called Frictionless:...
Two KubeCons, One Conference: While Everyone Demos AI Agents, Engineers Are Fighting With Syslogs
KubeCon North America 2025 was actually two different events happening simultaneously in the same...
The Shift Left Nobody's Talking About: When Your Data Stack Becomes the Next X-Acto Knife
Data’s 1971 Moment In 1971, knowing how to assemble a magazine spread with an X-Acto knife was a...
From Pandas to Upstream Control: The Evolution PyData Needs Next
Last Friday at PyData Seattle 2025, I gave a talk called "Taming the Data Tsunami." Room full of data...
You Can't Unbake a Cake (or Why Data Isolation in the Age of AI is BASICALLY Impossible)
Legislators across the globe want your data removed from AI models. The EU's "right to be forgotten"...
While Everyone Argues About AI Regulation, Data Is the Real Wild West
Last month, Colorado's AI Act went into full effect. California's considering similar legislation....
WebAssembly 3.0 and the Infrastructure We Actually Need
"We've finished the model... when do we get to the value?" Here's what I'm watching happen in real...
WASM's "Identity Crisis" Is Actually Its Superpower
(Continuing the thoughts from last time...) I'm an enormous fan of Matt Butcher (CEO of Fermyon) -...
They Don't Have the Money (And Neither Do You): The Coming Era of Small Models
OpenAI is burning $115B through 2029. If they don't have the money, you definitely don't. The future...