Briefs
Concise summaries of whitepapers, articles, and industry research.
Distilled summaries of whitepapers, articles, and industry research. Each brief preserves the source, extracts the core argument, captures the useful numbers, and ends with a practical bottom line — optimized for fast recall.
AI-Augmented Software Engineering 2025
10 h agoThe essential numbers, shifts, tools, and risks reshaping how software gets built — from agentic IDEs to the junior squeeze.
Measuring Developer Productivity: Real-World Examples
1 mo agoHow 17 tech companies actually measure engineering productivity — and a framework for choosing your own metrics.
Who Are You Trying to Impress with Your Deadlines?
1 mo agoA cheatsheet on why hard deadlines hurt your team, your product, and your customers — and what to do instead.
Building an AI-First Bank Culture
18 d agoKey takeaways from JPMorgan Chase CAO Derek Waldron's conversation with McKinsey on LLM Suite, the two-pillar AI strategy, workforce transformation, and emerging risks in agentic AI.
Agents, Robots, and Us
18 d agoA cheatsheet on MGI's methodology for assessing skill partnerships in the age of AI — covering automation potential, adoption modeling, occupation archetypes, and the Skill Change Index.
What goes here
- Research papers and industry reports, condensed to the essentials
- Long articles and talks worth remembering
- Always: the source, the key numbers, and a bottom line
If a page explains how something works rather than summarizing a source, it belongs in Notes.
Cortex — Engineer's Guide
Implementation-level Cortex reference — product map, setup, AISQL functions, Cortex Search, the token cost model, monitoring queries, governance, and gotchas.
AI-Augmented SWE 2025
The essential numbers, shifts, tools, and risks reshaping how software gets built — from agentic IDEs to the junior squeeze.