Corey Quinn
@quinnypig.com
Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
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Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/
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They should also sue Amazon for stealing Autodesk’s trademark UX nightmare approach.
Autodesk sues Google for allegedly infringing its Flow trademark as the name of Google's AI filmmaking tool (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
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February 9, 2026 at 5:10 PM
They should also sue Amazon for stealing Autodesk’s trademark UX nightmare approach.
Well they picked the right day of the week for it.
Shares of Monday.com plunge 20%+ after the company issued weak Q1 guidance, as it battles rising pressure from agentic AI tools (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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February 9, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Well they picked the right day of the week for it.
…and all but about twenty bucks of that is OpenAI.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reported a collective $1.1T backlog of cloud computing revenue in their latest quarterly earnings, including Microsoft's $625B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
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February 6, 2026 at 6:12 PM
…and all but about twenty bucks of that is OpenAI.
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This might be my favorite thing @quinnypig.com has ever written
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Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions
Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions
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February 5, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This might be my favorite thing @quinnypig.com has ever written
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Huh I think @techdirt.com sent me a bitcoin
February 6, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Huh I think @techdirt.com sent me a bitcoin
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February 5, 2026 at 5:13 PM
At 10 am Pacific, join a rare double feature of @mikejulian.com and I both on Duckbill Office Hours.
Will he snap and strangle me? Let’s find out!
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But they did such a good job trying to Frugal their way to a frontier model themselves.
Sources: Amazon and OpenAI are discussing a deal that could require OpenAI to dedicate researchers and engineers to developing customized models for Amazon (The Information)
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February 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
But they did such a good job trying to Frugal their way to a frontier model themselves.
It’s amazing how many people will upgrade when you literally do not give them a choice in the matter.
Satya Nadella says Windows 11 reached 1B users during Q2, growing over 45% YoY and at a faster rate than Windows 10 did (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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January 29, 2026 at 12:43 AM
It’s amazing how many people will upgrade when you literally do not give them a choice in the matter.
Gratifying to see OpenAI so laser-focused on… everything under the sun.
Sources: OpenAI is considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning Orb for its planned social network to ensure its users are real people (Anna Tong/Forbes)
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January 29, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Gratifying to see OpenAI so laser-focused on… everything under the sun.
Someone just learned the hard way why the only live email addresses in test systems are your own.
Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about planned layoffs in an email invite to a Wednesday "Project Dawn" meeting about company efficiency (Business Insider)
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January 28, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Someone just learned the hard way why the only live email addresses in test systems are your own.
Expensive Products That Suck To Use remains a tough market.
Autodesk plans to cut about 1,000 jobs, or ~7% of its workforce, as part of a global restructuring plan seeking to strengthen sales and marketing (Robb M. Stewart/Wall Street Journal)
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January 22, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Expensive Products That Suck To Use remains a tough market.
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Something something we need to go deeper into the scuba memes.
March 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Something something we need to go deeper into the scuba memes.
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Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer
January 16, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer
Micron is building a big memorial or something; I dunno I just skimmed it.
Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US (Glenn Coin/Syracuse Post-Standard)
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January 17, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Micron is building a big memorial or something; I dunno I just skimmed it.
“We’re going to scrutinize these to make sure that they’re not what they very obviously are.”
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says the agency is examining Big Tech's acqui-hires to make sure "they are not an attempt to get around" its merger review process (Bloomberg)
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January 17, 2026 at 1:54 AM
“We’re going to scrutinize these to make sure that they’re not what they very obviously are.”
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I do hope everyone in tech is subscribed to @quinnypig.com
"I construct the MIME message manually. It's fine. Everything is fine. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?" 😂
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"I construct the MIME message manually. It's fine. Everything is fine. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?" 😂
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I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do
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January 15, 2026 at 1:55 PM
I do hope everyone in tech is subscribed to @quinnypig.com
"I construct the MIME message manually. It's fine. Everything is fine. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?" 😂
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"I construct the MIME message manually. It's fine. Everything is fine. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?" 😂
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Huh, Scott Adams died.
January 13, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Huh, Scott Adams died.
Good thing they didn’t rename the whole company to chase the boondoggle.
Meta confirms it is laying off Reality Labs staff and will "reinvest the savings" in wearables; CTO Andrew Bosworth says 1,000+ staff will be notified Tuesday (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
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January 13, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Good thing they didn’t rename the whole company to chase the boondoggle.
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I mostly agree with @quinnypig.com on this
I can't stop laughing about "Moron Cloud" 💀 and a little sad he didn't address Azure's capacity problems. A big reason why I believe they can't/won't grow.
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I can't stop laughing about "Moron Cloud" 💀 and a little sad he didn't address Azure's capacity problems. A big reason why I believe they can't/won't grow.
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AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate
AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate
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January 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I mostly agree with @quinnypig.com on this
I can't stop laughing about "Moron Cloud" 💀 and a little sad he didn't address Azure's capacity problems. A big reason why I believe they can't/won't grow.
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-...
I can't stop laughing about "Moron Cloud" 💀 and a little sad he didn't address Azure's capacity problems. A big reason why I believe they can't/won't grow.
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-...
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Humongous 52-inch Dell monitor will make you feel like king of the internet with four screens in one
Humongous 52-inch Dell monitor will make you feel like king of the internet with four screens in one
Also: The XPS brand is back
If you like to separate your workflow onto multiple monitors but hate the gap and bezel between screens, Dell’s new display was made for you. Announced on Tuesday at CES, the Dell UltraSharp 52 (U5226KW) offers 52 inches of 6K resolution screen real estate that you can divide into up to four virtual monitors, supporting input either from up to four different devices, or one computer that creates that many desktops.…
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January 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Humongous 52-inch Dell monitor will make you feel like king of the internet with four screens in one
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Latest from @quinnypig.com ought to raise some eyebrows:
AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter
I've been tracking AWS for a long time, with a specific emphasis on pricing. "What happens if AWS hikes prices" has always been something of a boogeyman, trotted out as a hypothetical to urge folks to avoid taking dependencies on a given provider.…
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January 5, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Latest from @quinnypig.com ought to raise some eyebrows:
Aw yiss, a keyboard that screams when I throw it.
Razer plans to invest $600M in AI over "the next couple of years", as the gaming peripherals maker unveils new AI products like headphones with built-in cameras (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
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January 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Aw yiss, a keyboard that screams when I throw it.