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Google is fighting every final boss at once:
OpenAI & Anthropic in models, Nvidia in chips, AWS & Microsoft in cloud, Meta in ads, Tesla in self-driving, Apple in phones and OS.
At $4.6T, it feels weirdly undervalued.
JUST IN:
TIM COOK IS STEPPING DOWN AS THE CEO OF APPLE $AAPL
Apple just announced that John Ternus will replace Tim Cook as the next CEO of Apple, effective September 1st
Cook will become the executive chairman of Apple's board of directors
Nvidia has locked up many years of scarce components - almost a hundred billion dollars in purchase commitments.
Is this Nvidia’s big moat? A competitor might design a great accelerator, but they don’t have Jensen’s LTAs with SK Hynix, TSMC, etc.
Jensen: “If our next several years is a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it.”
cuando te das cuenta de que reCAPTCHA nunca fue para verificar tu identidad sino para entrenar modelos de vehículos autónomos…
pokémon hace unos días y ahora google
Agile Has Broken Your Company
The Agile Manifesto was signed in 2001 by 17 developers trying to fix broken software projects. It worked…until it didn't. Twenty-five years later, Agile has become a $20B+ industry, and the software it produces is getting worse.
The Four Principles
The Manifesto prioritized:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
These aren't wrong in isolation but the problem is what they became in practice.
"Responding to change" became an excuse to never finish anything. Stanford researchers found scope creep was institutionalized and rebranded as "sprint replanning," one of the top drivers of cost overruns.
"Working software over documentation" quietly gutted institutional knowledge. A 2023 GitLab survey found only 12% of developers felt their codebase was well-documented. In other words, technical debt became structural.
"Velocity" replaced quality. Story points. Burn-down charts. Throughput. None of these measure whether the software is any good. The Manifesto said build software that works, and a focus on velocity forgot that.
The Numbers Are Damning
McKinsey found technical debt now consumes 20–40% of engineering capacity in most large organizations.
The Consortium for Information & Software Quality estimated poor software quality cost U.S. companies $2.41 trillion in 2022, with $1.52 trillion from operational failures alone. Agile has been the dominant methodology for most of that period.
The Standish Group's CHAOS Report found that in 2020, only 31% of software projects were considered successful.
What You Don't Notice Until It's Too Late
Current software development best practices have killed systems thinking.
When your planning horizon is two weeks, you don't design systems anymore, you assemble features. The result is a mess of fragmented architectures, microservices sprawl, and codebases no single engineer fully understands.
The "Product Owner" role that was supposed to represent the customer became a bureaucratic proxy. A layer between engineers and business outcomes, distorting requirements at every handoff.
The Alternative: Software Factory
The best engineers have always known what actually works. They write specs. They think in systems. They document decisions. They go slow to go fast.
At 8090, we call this approach Software Factory. We look at software delivery like a production system with defined inputs, quality gates, and measurable outputs. Architecture is a first-class citizen from day one, not something you refactor into after 40 sprints. Documentation is built in, not bolted on.
Quality Is Speed
Every hour spent on rework, incident response, and technical debt is an hour that could have gone into upfront design or testing. Speed and quality don’t need to be in tension - it’s a false choice in modern mythology.
If your team still measures success in story points and sprint velocity, ask yourself: What's your defect rate? Your documentation coverage? Your time to onboard a new engineer? Your incident frequency?
If you don't like the answers, it's probably time for a different model.
Try Software Factory at https://t.co/fkfTXgdfXK
Gmail @ @Google should gear up their email features on iPhone & iPad. You cannot add a link to the text unless you’re on PC. No wonder people prefer outlook more.
AI agents will be a big part of how we shop in the not-so-distant future.
To help lay the groundwork, we partnered with Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart to create the Universal Commerce Protocol, a new open standard for agents and systems to talk to each other across every step of the shopping journey.
And coming soon, UCP will power native checkout so you can buy directly on AI Mode and the @Geminiapp.