The end of AI blank cheques
The AI spend surge is colliding with financial reality. Cloud is now a major operating cost, forecast variance is rising, and CFOs are taking ownership. AI unit economics …
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How to build an Agent policy
Agents need a policy. Don’t reinvent governance. Apply what you already do with people: review, limit, escalate, grow trust. Reality begins not when the model speaks, but …
AWS feels different. Here’s how that changes my approach.
Something has changed in how AWS absorbs mistakes. Benevolence hasn’t disappeared, but it’s no longer where many practitioners expect it. This essay examines what happens …
Why Shift-Left often just shifts the load
In practice, Shift-Left often does something else entirely: it shifts the cognitive burden onto people who are already overloaded.
A quiet update on the ProsperOps acquisition
A quiet follow-up on the ProsperOps acquisition by Flexera. No announcements, no roadmaps, just observable changes: branding updates, partner participation shifts, and …
FinOps should be invisible
FinOps talks a lot about being involved early. Early in architecture. Early in tagging. Early in design reviews. I think that instinct is wrong.
“The Real Superpower of AI Isn't Technical - It's Contextual
This is a new talk delivered in December in front of Data and AI leaders in Financial services.
FinOps tools are consolidating: Flexera–ProsperOps, DoiT’s buying spree, and the platform endgame
FinOps tooling is consolidating into CloudOps platforms. Flexera buys ProsperOps (vertical execution) and Chaos Genius (horizontal data scope). DoiT is buying across …
Protect the doers. One month. Your copy.
A while ago, I self-published a short, opinionated book for first-time managers: Protect the doers. It is not a framework. It is not a leadership manifesto. It is a set …
The FinOps market just blinked. And then consolidated.
Flexera just bought ProsperOps and Chaos Genius in one move. FinOps tools are consolidating fast: fewer dashboards, more execution, broader scope (AI, data). Tool sprawl …