Michael Crowcroft

- $760 (Goal: $5k by EOY)
- $900 p/m (Goal: $10k p/m)

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

Maybe an absurd idea, but would it make sense for @laravel to have clean solution for ACP/A2A. I know the scope is really for text editors at the moment, but would love to let users BYO claude/Gemini etc. to my Laravel app. https://t.co/TwhN1VF3Y4

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@signulll CDOs come and go depending on the market cycle lol

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

Maybe foundational models won’t be commoditised because you just know GPT is Pepsi everytime.

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@edels0n The founders have sold everything that the company was and are just using it as a vessel for their next thing right? Surely keeping everything as a public company makes this way more difficult (and expensive) though...

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@AlasdairGold At least we didn't panic 😏

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@simonw I suspect it's Bing and Brave indexes augmented by additional data from Reddit and other direct partner deals.

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@reidjjackson If they want to achieve Google Search levels of ubiquity the issue isn't reaching and persuading TBPN's audience. It's literally everyone else in the world that's the problem.

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@ryanflorence P1 moves down to P2 because of AI, the market is going to produce more software while spending less. That's salaries going down, and less headcount in orgs. Unsure how you come to your final conclusion?

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@paulg Another read is that differentiation is often greatly overstated, and rarely exists. Most companies are simply competing on distinctiveness. Lots of research on this from the Ehrenberg Bass Institute.

https://t.co/D1UQ3pDvSI

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@sama Same energy https://t.co/7IPPja4T5P

[Oracle @Oracle]

The NVIDIA-OpenAI deal has zero impact on our financial relationship with OpenAI. We remain highly confident in OpenAI’s ability to raise funds and meet its commitments.

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

Pretty consistently get better outcomes using Gemini over ChatGPT for general work. The ChatGPT app is a bit nicer, but Gemini responses are pretty clearly better for me.

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@awilkinson @VijarKohli It’s not that Gemini is good is that Google Search is already LLM based. AI overviews and AI mode dwarf ChatGPT.

Google search will be the next Google search.

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@JackEllis At best he's rage-baiting

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@dvassallo The alleged failure has an echo of success that still rings louder than most.

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@coffeinatus @37signals I mean you’re always going to have a single source of failure with DNS. I actually don’t think the cloud exit was really about this at all…

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@typesfast Still required in California?

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@samlambert Hilarious that people rage about the removal of a free tier for one product, while there's also people raging about the addition of a free tier for Affinity by Canva. Some people just love having problems.

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@PovilasKorop The value of a channel to an advertiser doesn't grow with their reach linearly, it's exponential.

If I want to reach 100k people there are 1,000s of alternatives, if I want to reach 90% of the world I have two options.

That's why the platforms can skim so much off the top.

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@jbrooksuk Shad Vue components, or something else?

[Michael Crowcroft @mdcrowcroft]

@iPullRank @btabke Yea, continuing to undervalue structure and interlinking, and overvaluing fairly benign 'schema markup' stuff.

To many people have spent too much time selling clients on schema markup and other rubbish that they just keep the train rolling instead of actually doing good work.