Archive - davidj.substack

Software will eat the world, but agents will eat software

Jul 1 •

David Jayatillake

June 2025

Nearly Headless BI

Let's join the agentic hunt!

Jun 25 •

David Jayatillake

Infosec needs to get proactive

Jun 21 •

David Jayatillake

Are LLMs that expensive?

Jun 14 •

David Jayatillake

Coach, don't tell

Jun 5 •

David Jayatillake

May 2025

Things are moving fast

May 21 •

David Jayatillake

More than a prompt

Good content can't be made by an LLM alone

May 15 •

David Jayatillake

OpenAI Windsurfing

The last, current and next VSCode forks

May 7 •

David Jayatillake

April 2025

Data Platform Engineering

Acceleration instead of gatekeeping

Apr 28 •

David Jayatillake

Single Use Software

A tool just for you, just for this time

Apr 22 •

David Jayatillake

Vibe Maintainer

Puppies aren't free

Apr 14 •

David Jayatillake

!= ML Specialism

Apr 3 •

David Jayatillake

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