Posts on Phil Wheat

Week in review: Sep 27 – Oct 4

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

The week’s center of gravity was the money behind the AI boom. A leaked Anthropic S1 prospectus kicked things off on the Pivot to AI channel, and Better Offline — which supplied the bulk of the volume this week as its back catalog rolled through the exporter — made the same ledger from several angles: an $8 billion operating loss on $4.6 billion of 2025 revenue, $413 billion in non-cancellable compute commitments, and revenue concentration so tight that most hyperscaler AI growth traces back to OpenAI and Anthropic spending each other’s money. Whether or not you buy the “bubble bursting” framing, the arithmetic is now public and worth reading against the hype cycle.

Week in review: Sep 21 – Sep 28

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

A deliberately light week — two items, and both happen to rhyme. One looks backward at how a technology upended an entertainment industry’s business model; the other argues we’re living through the early days of exactly such an upend, and that the marketing around it obscures what the technology actually does.

LLMs today

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:58:14 -0600

One of the actual exciting parts about moving to a new adventure is you get to look up from the day to day stuff and figure out what else is going on in the industry/world. Since I had been coaching teams on LLM/Copilot dev tool adoption, and that’s all the rage right now - I decided to do a bit more digging into the current possibilities. Not Vibe Coding, not Autocomplete, but something that can hopefully fit into that spot where templates and wizards used to fit.

Old Projects

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:11:09 -0500

I thought to start things off, I’ll do a series of posts on some old projects I’ve done. This will hopefully set the stage a bit about what I do, as well as test the behavior of the site, and maybe entertain you a bit.

Welcome to my corner of the Internet

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:59:22 -0500

After a LONG time coming, I’ve finally gotten around to putting up this limited site.

Why did it take so long? I always have more projects than time. And what projects I do have tend to expand to fill (and exceed) time. The joys of projects of discovery, If you do them right, there’s always more to do.