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Research Debt
Science is a human activity. When we fail to distill and explain research, we accumulate a kind of debt...
Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding
Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows
The Real Story Of How I Sold Two Startups, The Chaos Afterwards, And What’s Next – The Health Care Blog
Today we’re starting a series of more personal stories, looking at what makes interesting people in health care tick. Alex Carmichael is a rare multiple time CEO in health technology, and she has a very interesting tale to tell–Matthew Holt
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
Alex Komoroske on Twitter / X
What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)https://t.co/sfKBVZ2zXr— Alex Komoroske (@komorama) December 5, 2025
The AI productivity myth is more harmful than you think
Perceived productivity may be up thanks to AI, but there's debt collecting in the shadows.
Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026
The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory – Dan Shapiro's Blog
In my last post, I wrote about technical deflation. We’re seeing the cost of code is dropping so fast that we need to change our tech debt payment plans. The smart teams…
Declaring Systems Bankruptcy
For years and years, I’ve helped teams evaluate their systems, fix their systems, tweak their systems, and evolve their systems. And sometimes it’s even been necessary to help teams declare bankruptcy on their systems, blow them up, and start anew. And now it’s my turn. It started as a slow re
Unpacking the Mechanics of Conduit Debt Financing
Understanding the pass-through financing model behind the AI infrastructure boom
🐙 The 14 pains of billing for AI agents - Arnon Shimoni
(Basically, why the octopus grew new tentacles for agentic billing) A while ago, I wrote about the 14 pains of building your own billing system – that was back when billing was “just” complicated. It got mentioned quite a bit around the internet, and ended up #2 on the front page of Hacker News which […]
Alex Komoroske (Common Tools)
