https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonwingard/2026/04/23/vibe-coding-will-break-your-company/

Interesting article that is probably pay-walled unless you get to it one time only from Google News, which is how I found it.

Looks like it mostly has to do with public-facing vibe-coded apps, as opposed to internal tools, but I bet a similar principle applies.

«The companies that think the story is about software are going to lose to the companies that understand the story is about judgment.

…

The point is that vibe coding collapses the distance between idea and artifact from months to hours. When that distance collapses, every quality-control mechanism your organization developed over the last 30 years gets bypassed by default. Design review. Security review. Legal review. Brand review. The simple friction of having to convince an engineer your idea was worth building. That is a governance story, not a software story. It is happening at every level of the org chart simultaneously.

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The bottleneck in the AI era is not production. It is discernment. And discernment, as I have written in Forbes, is not a personality trait. It is an organizational system. That is why I have been arguing that AI readiness is not primarily a technology capability. It is a leadership discipline: the capacity to decide what should move faster, what should slow down, and who has the authority to know the difference.

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The right question to ask after a vibe-coded prototype fails is not what did the AI do wrong. It is what did our process miss. Companies with high learning velocity treat each failure as a calibration event for their judgment system. … Adoption without learning velocity is just exposure.

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Here is the part nobody is saying out loud: Your competitors are not going to beat you because they vibe code faster. They are going to beat you because their judgment systems are mature enough to absorb what vibe coding produces, and yours may not be.»

https://amp-newsobserver-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/orange-county/article315469039.html?amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1

(No gift link available.) Local restaurant, run by a former Palestinian refugee donating all proceeds on Tues., April 28th to Gaza Children’s Village (in Gaza). Supported by/in conjunction with Beth El Synagogue in Durham.

«“You have to make yourself vulnerable, and you may be disappointed, someone may take advantage of it, but we have to be stronger than the … evil forces that want to divide us,” he added. [David Hasan, Duke University neurosurgeon and founder of Gaza Children’s Village]

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“I think that it behooves all of us as Americans and as good people to not let what’s happening on the other side of the world destroy our communities and not become an excuse for mistreating the people who are in our midst,” Greyber said. [Beth El’s Senior Rabbi Daniel Greyber]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/opinion/iran-cost-united-states-iraq-ukraine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d1A.zK3X.uww6_cdFhr-I&smid=url-share (gift)

Mmmm, long-tail contracts….

«Federal lawmakers know they cannot count on executive branch officials for a straight answer about this war’s cost. Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, told the House Budget Committee on April 15, “I don’t have a ballpark for you.” It is incredible for him to claim that he has no general sense of the Iran war’s cost so far. Many people, including in the government, have been counting.

The Pentagon told Congress that the first six days of the war cost more than $11.3 billion. The Center for Strategic and International Studies calculated that munitions consumed 84 cents of every dollar spent on the Iran conflict in the opening 100 hours, as the U.S. military burned through Tomahawk, Patriot and THAAD inventories. With over 50,000 U.S. troops deployed in the region and about 13,000 strikes against Iran, the American Enterprise Institute estimated the cost at between $25 billion and $35 billion.

And that’s before the long-tail contracts that follow every war. Those costs can be enormous, and we need to anticipate them.»

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-anti-market-delusion-at-the-heart

So, apparently, voters don’t believe increasing housing supply reduces housing prices, and yet…

«Real housing heads will know that the Sun Belt makes it much easier to build housing than Western states like California, which is one reason why Americans are increasingly moving there.

Your average voter is probably not jumping to read the latest white paper on the effects of upzoning. But they do notice which parts of the country people are moving to and which places have affordable rents.»

On my father’s side, I’m descended from Southerners.

On my mother’s side, I’m descended from Germans who immigrated here after WWII. I *think* money I’ve inherited from my mom (it ain’t all that much; don’t get excited) came in large part from my godmother, who did ok renting apartments to American GIs in Berlin. Who were paid in dollars paid to *them* by… the U.S. government.

I don’t think I have a single dollar bill that doesn’t have a drop of blood on it.

[To be clear, I’m talking about slavery in the U.S.]

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/04/23/eu-approves-90-billion-loan-for-ukraine-after-hungary-lifts-controversial-veto

W00t!

https://substack.com/home/post/p-195188905

«Today will end. Tomorrow will not be like today. Push hard today. Push everywhere. Don’t give up and don’t let up. But prepare for when the door of opportunity opens tomorrow. Tomorrow won’t automatically happen and nothing will automatically snap back or fix itself or return to normal.»

I keep needing to have the lump-of-labor fallacy explained to me. Here it is again:

«Stan Veuger, an economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said the administration’s position relies on what’s known as the lump-of-labor fallacy.

“The idea that there’s a fixed number of jobs, and if you remove some workers, there’s more jobs for everyone else, that doesn’t work,” Veuger said. “You’re removing demand as well as supply” because newcomers are also buying goods and services, he said.»

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/immigration-crackdown-labor-market-fcfed2d6?st=8x5uw2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink (gift)

Also, this whole article is interesting. Trump’s immigration crackdown has neither helped native-born workers get jobs nor been a disaster for employers in industries that typically rely on foreign-born workers without a college degree, by the numbers.

Not sure what that means. Maybe ICE simply hasn’t deported enough workers to make a difference in these numbers?

Or maybe doing all this while cranking up tariffs and engaging in a particularly stupid war has just scrambled the picture.

Or… maybe the economy is just plain flexible and robust enough that no administration can affect it the way they say they can, and it’s just political manipulation, marginalizing the Others so they can climb to the top?

Or maybe a year isn’t enough time to really see the effects.

Anyway, I still think this country would be better off economically if we were just less racist and sexist, didn’t jack up tariffs, and didn’t jump into stupid wars just because some of us like big explosions.

«The Republican establishment has spent a decade and a half pleading with Republican voters not to nominate crazy people for office in losable elections, only for the voters to routinely disregard the advice because they prefer a nominee who will fight hard. Indeed, when those candidates lose, their supporters tend to blame the establishment for undermining them, rather than admit that the establishment may have had a point. And when they win, which can happen even to the worst candidates, they conclude that they have disproved the conventional wisdom.

El-Sayed claims the difference between him and his opponents is that he’s brave. “It’s just the same lack of courage that Democrats deploy to argue as to why they should be taking money from corporations,” he said, “or why they should be hedging their bets on clear, obvious policies like abolishing ICE or guaranteeing health care through Medicare for All.” The actual difference is that his opponents are trying to beat Republicans, and he’s concerned only with beating Democrats.»

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/abdul-el-sayed-michigan-race/686882/?gift=ly-h2TZGdDJyaoFv6n-KaVd6KQjsGU8zYCc2_GjX3A0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share (gift)

«Jet fuel prices have dropped in the last week but are still about twice as high as a year ago, according to the International Air Transport Association.

Airlines are now factoring in those costs as they review their summer schedules. Air Canada, which flies to three cities from RDU, cited fuel prices when it announced late last week that it was suspending five routes to other airports, including two to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

“Jet fuel prices have doubled since the start of the Iran conflict, affecting some lower profitability routes and flights which now are no longer economically feasible,” the carrier said in a statement.»

https://amp-newsobserver-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.newsobserver.com/news/business/article315469561.html?amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1

(No way to gift this article, sadly.)