Drew Breunig

Enterprise Agents Have a Reliability Problem Every enterprise AI report tells the same story once you look past the headlines: chatbot adoption is booming, internal pilots are failing. Reliability is the barrier holding agents back.

Reports about AI usage ended up telling a consistent story: www.dbreunig.com/2025/12/06/t...

This week’s Money Stuff podcast ends suspiciously abruptly, with an edit cutting off a heavy
@matt-levine.bsky.social
sigh while discussing Goldman paying $2B for Innovator Capital.

Regarding the Claude “Soul Document”: I wonder if training models on documents like these influences our perception of these models as sentient.

In many ways, LLMs are playback machines, which we talk to as human. It reminds me of facilitated communication. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilit...

Me neither. But the Master Switch future seems inevitable with Google and Apple owning user persistence, age verification, and payments.

I'm torn – the platforms owning ad ID opt-in nuked ad revenue for anyone whose audience wasn't already very large and established. True, it offloads the headache for pubs, but further consolidates their defacto ownership of the user.

It's worth reading both Nuzzi's & Lizza's recent writing, not because of its subjects, but because it effectively conveys the invisible, essential work of great editors.

As someone who is _not_ a professional writer, but writes in public a lot, it is incredibly validating to see these ROUGH drafts.

I wonder how long it can last when they ask the artists to do their own marketing now and streaming takes care of the distribution.

Which, of course, is why they've built monopolies around concert venues.

Yes, it's a straight line through bad contract innovations in the 60's, through to iTunes, Spotify, and now. Anything that reduces their costs and increases their revenue (how much doesn't really matter) will be embraced. Artists are an afterthought.

Here's a fun OSM task you can do: add the location of Flock cameras. One mapper in our neighborhood has been on a roll: www.openstreetmap.org/node/1333152...

When only 10% of the world was online (and only 1% actively used it) it felt like a small, vibrant club.

I find myself trying to discern when things are *actually worse*, it's just different and I'm older now, or it's better because its more accessible to most people.

This community is no longer the focus:

Pressure for growth means the big platforms have to find new sources of revenue, which aren't the ones people originally came to them for.

The audience early users were part of used to be a giant share of the web. It is now a drop in the bucket.

This is the 2nd verse of Hey Nineteen.

YouTube video by CARTO Reducing the Data Onboarding Tax with GERS | Drew Breunig | Overture Maps

I gave a talk about Overture's GERS (an open, free, maintained ID system for geo data) at CARTO's Spatial Data Science Conference.

It's so much easier to demonstrate the benefits of GERS now that there's a community growing up around it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8YZ...

Glimpses of the Future: Speed & Swarms When coding models are faster and concurrent, the distance between thought and code shrinks. You can preview this future by trying out Qwen 3 Coder on Cerebras or claude-on-rails.

www.dbreunig.com/2025/10/20/s...

Noel’s guide to decades is the most vicious Chuck Klosterman own I’ve ever witnessed.

GERSifying Overture Places: A Seamless Path to Richer Insights Discover how the GERSification of Overture Maps Foundation data can help you connect open and premium data to speed up analysis and smarter spatial decisions.

Fantastic example of using Overture Maps' GERS identifier, from Carto and @mike.teczno.com carto.com/blog/gersify...

💯 theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

This probably the wrong person to let your video generator run wild with, and perhaps the likeness best equipped to take legal action. www.theguardian.com/film/2015/ma...

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Do it!

@bransonreese.bsky.social A friend of mine is a high school teacher and he recently sent me this text: "Just got shamed by a student for saying 'the Deftones' instead of 'Deftones'. I will never recover."

i don’t name them because I always forget if the K or R is backwards and don’t want to embarrass myself.

(It’s the Я)

Generalissimo Hospital once sold me some fake car insurance paperwork.

Mark your calendars!
In this #podcast, @jed.co and @dbreunig.bsky.social will use Drew's blog post – "Why LLM advancements have slowed: The low-hanging fruit has been eaten – as a starting point for their conversation. Read the post here:
www.dbreunig.com/2024/12/05/w...

Swan Boy Goes to the Release for the 33 1/3 for 24 Hour Revenge Therapy Visit the post for more.

this question and answer is wild considering this was like strip 5: swanboy.com/comic/swan-b...

It's always been a "power object" that people imbue with whatever signal they want. Best to avoid.

🆕 #CNG2025 session video
The live webinar has ended, but the conversation continues! In this talk, @dbreunig.bsky.social explains why our definitions of location are fragmented and how we can standardize "place" like we did time
▶️ youtu.be/stiYfBB0KC8

AI Companies School Like Fish Markets for new AI use cases turn from blue oceans to red oceans in under 18 months. Start-ups need to go niche or have one helluva plan.

When a new use case arrives (chat, deep research, browsers), AI companies school like fish towards it. Blue oceans turn red in a year or so.

What can we learn from this pattern?

www.dbreunig.com/2025/09/13/t...