Surya Koritala
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AI vendor lock-in is faster than cloud’s was — here’s why
AI vendor lock-in is arriving faster than cloud lock-in did, driven by pricing shocks, migration costs, and consultancy-led standardization.
Unframe Series B — what $50M and $100M TCV mean
Unframe Series B brings in $50M after the company said it topped $100M in 12-month TCV. Here’s what that metric…
Agent commerce reality check 2026: shipped now
The agent commerce reality in 2026: provisioning and renewals are shipping, while cross-merchant shopping and disputes still lag.
LLM observability stack 2026: Langfuse, Helicone, LangSmith, or Arize?
LLM observability stack 2026: how to choose Langfuse, Helicone, LangSmith, or Arize Phoenix using real trade-offs and working Python examples.
AI 2026 layoff split: 92K cut, labs hire
AI 2026 layoff split: 92,000+ tech jobs were cut in five months while frontier labs kept hiring and AI spending…
Code-gen tool decision in 2026
A practical code-gen tool decision for 2026: when to pick Cursor, Claude Code, Aider, Continue, or Cline by workflow, cost,…
Structured output prompting with JSON mode + Pydantic
Structured output prompting replaces brittle JSON scraping with schema-checked responses and typed Pydantic objects in production Python.
AI inference economics 2026: the token spread
AI inference economics 2026 shows a 6x spread on the same open-weight model, revealing how price, latency, and throughput really…
Synaptics and Google Research revive Coralboard
Synaptics and Google Research used Google I/O 2026 to unveil the Coralboard, a new development board that revives the Coral…
Google launches Managed Agents API at I/O 2026
Google used the second day of I/O 2026, held May 19–20, to unveil two new agent products: Managed Agents API,…
The reasoning-model trap
I think the industry is walking into a category trap. The latest reasoning models look production-ready on headline benchmarks, with…
Cloudflare and Stripe ship agent commerce
Cloudflare and Stripe have launched a concrete agent-commerce workflow: an AI coding agent can create a Cloudflare account, start a…