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Antoine Buteau

Antoine Buteau

Daily Digest - 2026-06-14

1. Ramp’s $44B bet on metered intelligence as corporate spend — Chamath Palihapitiya Why read: How major players like OpenAI and Anthropic are shifting AI...

Lessons from Charlie O’Neill

Lessons from Charlie O’Neill Charlie O’Neill is an AI researcher, Head of Model Training at Baseten, and a John Monash Scholar at Oxford. His work on LLM...

Lessons from Avery Pennarun

Avery Pennarun is the co founder and CEO of Tailscale, an engineer who spent years at Google Fiber, and a prolific open source contributor known for tools...

Daily Digest - 2026-06-13

1. You can't whisper at an AI agent — James Beswick, Peter Epsteen Why read: Stripe tested how to actually get AI agents to use APIs correctly. Here are...

AI Inference Infrastructure — Industry Deep Dive

Executive summary AI inference infrastructure is the production runtime layer for AI. Training gets most of the mythology. Inference gets the bill. Every chatbot answer, coding-agent step, search rewrite, image generation, fraud score, voice response, and internal workflow call has to run somewhere. That somewhere is becoming a real

AI Inference Gateways and Control Planes — Industry Deep Dive

Executive summary AI inference gateways are the control plane for multi-model AI. The simple version is a proxy: one API that routes requests to many model providers. The more important version is a management layer for model traffic: policy, fallback, spend, privacy, observability, audit, billing, and provider choice. The

Developer Infrastructure After the Diff — Industry Deep Dive

Executive Summary AI raises the stakes for the post-diff layer of software development. If code gets cheaper to generate, the scarce resource shifts to proving that the code is safe, deployable, observable, compliant, and repairable. That is the real market behind “developer infrastructure after the diff.” It starts when

Product Engineering Work Graph — Industry Deep Dive

Executive summary Every software company has some version of the same messy path. A customer asks for SSO in a support ticket. A sales rep repeats the ask in Slack. A PM hears the same thing on a renewal call. Someone adds it to a feedback board. A researcher tags
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