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gk1
Thurs Mar 31, 2011 6:07pm PST
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about
Former naval architect, turned marketing consultant in 2013, then VP Marketing at Pinecone from 2020 to 2024, then back to consulting.

Obsessed with growing deeply technical startups, chess, and ultralight travel.

https://www.gkogan.co - My personal-but-work-related site

https://www.gregkogan.com - My actual personal site with some cartoons and writing.

Best email: greg[at]gkogan.co

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You can't QA your way to the frontier
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Fri Feb 6, 2026 11:51pm PST
Few things are worth building
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Fri Feb 6, 2026 3:39pm PST
Claude Trolled ChatGPT and Won
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Fri Feb 6, 2026 2:58pm PST
Rent My LinkedIn Header
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Thurs Feb 5, 2026 4:14pm PST
Examining Turbopuffer ANN v3
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Fri Jan 30, 2026 5:15pm PST
Mydd.ai: AI chatbot for kids
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Fri Jan 30, 2026 5:03pm PST
Sometimes Never Compete on Price
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Fri Jan 30, 2026 5:00pm PST
Zendesk Alternative
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Fri Jan 30, 2026 4:47pm PST
Naming a new category is probably the wrong move
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Thurs Jan 29, 2026 2:41pm PST
Discarding the Shaft-and-Belt Model of Software Development
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Thurs Jan 29, 2026 2:15pm PST
Wordiest
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Wed Jan 28, 2026 7:05pm PST
Agentic Table Merging
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Wed Jan 28, 2026 2:44pm PST
Amazon to Cut 16,000 Corporate Positions
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Mon Jan 26, 2026 7:28pm PST
The WABL Test: Would anything of value be lost if you delete this?
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Sat Jan 24, 2026 2:51pm PST
Evolving Instruction Following Beyond IFEval and "Avoid the Letter C"
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 1:37am PST
FBI: Common Frauds and Scams
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Wed Jan 21, 2026 8:34pm PST
Turbopuffer: Fast Search on Object Storage
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Tues Jan 20, 2026 6:07pm PST
No New Categories (2020)
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Fri Jan 9, 2026 3:38am PST
From old English to modern American English in one monologue
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Tues Jan 6, 2026 11:39pm PST
Software Too Cheap to Meter
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Tues Jan 6, 2026 4:46pm PST
LMArena Is a Cancer on AI
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Sat Dec 20, 2025 4:12pm PST
Would You Let A.I. Design Your Living Room?
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Sat Dec 20, 2025 4:09pm PST
MCP Trust Registry
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Fri Dec 19, 2025 6:09pm PST
We should prepare for the possibility of profound change
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Fri Dec 19, 2025 2:45am PST
Sandcastles
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Thurs Dec 18, 2025 7:31pm PST
Xata: Instant branches of your Postgres with anonymized production data
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Thurs Dec 18, 2025 2:01pm PST
Bill Gurley on the AI Era, 10 Days in China, and More [video]
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Thurs Dec 18, 2025 5:32am PST
Rerun: Physical Data Platform
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Thurs Dec 18, 2025 3:28am PST
John Schulman on dead ends, scaling RL, building research institutions [video]
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Tues Dec 16, 2025 12:20pm PST
Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year is 'slop'
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Thurs Dec 11, 2025 9:54pm PST
What you should know about constraints in PostgreSQL
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Thurs Dec 11, 2025 2:28pm PST
Disney Invests $1B in OpenAI, Strikes Licensing Deal
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Thurs Dec 11, 2025 12:23pm PST
4k Changes. $3.5B. Zero Ships
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Wed Dec 10, 2025 5:20pm PST
Cube: Agentic Analytics Platform
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Wed Dec 10, 2025 4:35pm PST
Brand Naming Process
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Wed Dec 10, 2025 3:31pm PST
Pinecone's Slab Architecture
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Wed Dec 10, 2025 2:00pm PST
Replacing Next.js ISR with a custom Cloudflare cache layer
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Tues Dec 9, 2025 12:48pm PST
How to Sell AI to PE
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Tues Dec 9, 2025 12:12pm PST
Closing the loop: Building a coding agent that uses Postgres branches
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Thurs Dec 4, 2025 4:28pm PST
Tips for Configuring Neovim for Claude Code
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Wed Dec 3, 2025 9:56pm PST
From the Grid to the Prompt
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Wed Dec 3, 2025 6:55pm PST
Toward a Working Definition of Paperclip-Punk
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Tues Dec 2, 2025 4:08pm PST
We Improved Organization Invites to Keycloak
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Tues Nov 25, 2025 4:34pm PST
How to keep your apps up when AWS is down
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Tues Nov 25, 2025 4:28pm PST
AI agents should be serverless
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Tues Nov 25, 2025 4:19pm PST
Making Durable Agents
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Tues Nov 25, 2025 3:12pm PST
Ruthless prioritization while the dog pees on the floor
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Thurs Nov 20, 2025 2:57pm PST
OpenAI can't beat Google in consumer AI
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Wed Nov 19, 2025 8:44pm PST
Devin's 2025 Performance Review: Learnings from 18 Months of Agents at Work
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Fri Nov 14, 2025 6:13pm PST
Cursor never says "IDE" on their homepage
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Thurs Nov 13, 2025 2:31pm PST
Feeling good about the economy? You probably own stocks
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Thurs Nov 13, 2025 2:02am PST
Smarter Adaptive Graph Sampling for More Accurate Graph Learning
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Thurs Nov 13, 2025 12:51am PST
The Seal Show of Irkutsk
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Tues Nov 11, 2025 9:26pm PST
Building Our Gen AI Sales Knowledge Assistant on Snowflake
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Tues Nov 11, 2025 9:21pm PST
AlignEval: Building an App to Make Evals Easy, Fun, and Automated
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Fri Nov 7, 2025 4:28pm PST
Don't Be a "Woe Is Me" Founder
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Wed Nov 5, 2025 5:44pm PST
Building Agents for Ecommerce
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Wed Nov 5, 2025 4:18pm PST
Benchmarking the Thomson Reuters legal agent
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Tues Nov 4, 2025 4:53pm PST
Commitments on Model Deprecation and Preservation
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Wed Oct 29, 2025 7:53pm PST
Data Agents (2023)
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Tues Oct 28, 2025 5:22pm PST
Compute, power, intelligence: Poolside goes full-stack with Project Horizon
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Wed Oct 22, 2025 3:41pm PST
Meta Cutting 600 AI Jobs to move faster
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Tues Oct 21, 2025 8:42pm PST
CVE-2025-61765: BlueRock Discovers Critical RCE in Socket.io Ecosystem
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Tues Oct 21, 2025 6:53pm PST
ChatGPT Atlas
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Tues Oct 21, 2025 3:30pm PST
Keeping your apps running while AWS is down
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Tues Oct 21, 2025 2:29pm PST
Build your own web-based coding agent
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Tues Oct 14, 2025 2:52pm PST
A Product Take on Sonnet 4.5
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Tues Oct 14, 2025 2:33pm PST
"Powered by AI" Is Not a Value Proposition
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Tues Oct 14, 2025 1:41pm PST
Walmart Partners with OpenAI to Offer Shopping on ChatGPT
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Building Resilient AI Agents
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Fri Oct 3, 2025 8:08pm PST
Unsexy AI Failures: The PDF That Broke ChatGPT
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Thurs Oct 2, 2025 1:25am PST
No New Categories (2020)
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Wed Oct 1, 2025 6:52pm PST
Wildfire RFM: Using foundation models to predict wildfires
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Wed Oct 1, 2025 6:47pm PST
Dagger 0.19: performance, new APIs, build-an-agent – Dagger
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