Wall Street has spent the last two weeks in a full-blown panic over SaaS, with public SaaS stocks shedding hundreds of billions of dollars in value. Investors, behaving with their usual pack mentality, have suddenly decided that AI represents an existential threat to the entire SaaS model. It’s not
ForwardThinking 🤔 Let's talk about SaaS, baby Wall Street has spent the last two weeks in a full-blown panic over SaaS, with public SaaS stocks shedding hundreds of billions of dollars in value. Investors, behaving with their usual pack mentality, have suddenly decided that AI represents an existential threat
If you're being honest, you probably don't pay too much attention to the ads during your typical sporting event. That's the time to go to the bathroom, grab a snack or just mute the noise. It's hard for brands, especially tech brands,
Since its release in November 2024, the Model Context Protocol or MCP has provided a standard way for developers to connect AI assistants to external applications. Last week, the standard took a leap forward with the release of MCP Apps, a new way to embed applications directly into the chat.
Kilo Code, an early‑stage open source agentic development platform, co‑founded by GitLab chair Sid Sijbrandij, is rolling out a new command‑line interface built to work with more than 500 AI models. Kilo Code rebuilt its original CLI into a single, model-agnostic tool designed to help developers build
When you saw me out your window Singing from the garden Only the beginning I'm only getting started I don't mind the digging Baby, I'll work harder ~Jack Johnson, Washing Dishes Six weeks ago, I announced I was leaving boldstart and taking this blog
ForwardThinking 🤔 And we're back When you saw me out your window Singing from the garden Only the beginning I'm only getting started I don't mind the digging Baby, I'll work harder ~Jack Johnson, Washing Dishes Six weeks ago, I announced I was
We keep hearing how AI agents are going to dominate in the enterprise, but so far the hype has not matched the reality. In part, that’s because implementing AI agents is complex, and many companies are struggling to build them at scale. Enterprise software companies like ServiceNow have been
If there's a light up ahead, well brother I don't know But I got this fever burning in my soul So let's take the good times as they go And I'll meet you further on up the road ~Bruce Springsteen, Further on
If you keep predicting something every year, sooner or later you may be right. At the end of last year, we kept hearing 2025 was going to be the year when agentic AI really took off. It didn’t really work out as predicted. It’s all well and good
A year ago this week, I launched FastForward #1 at AWS re:Invent. It was a heck of a place to officially start my journey, amidst the tumult of a ginormous conference in one of the most distracting places on the planet, but we were ready to go and there
When Amazon announced Bedrock AgentCore in July, it felt significant. Here was a major cloud platform adding a component-based way to build agents with many of the pieces a developer would need to feel comfortable building something in an enterprise setting. This included runtime, browser, observability, identity, memory management components,