2026/02/05 → Far out

2026/02/02 → Sums up how I feel about Microsoft Teams

2026/01/30 → We lost structure, oversight, and control.

2026/01/29 →

2026/01/28 → this is killing me

2026/01/27 → We've spent over a decade building the technical foundations to help organizations succeed with Data & AI. And, for abou

2026/01/17 → Interesting bit about small vs large LLMs: sometimes large models are cheaper to operate because they figure out stuff w

2026/01/15 → GenAI makes me much more efficient, except when it doesn't.

2026/01/13 → How does it feel?

2026/01/12 → How does AI solve healthcare's most pressing problems?

2026/01/07 → Automate boring work with AI!

2026/01/06 → Databricks is hosting a bootcamp to master the Data Intelligence Platform in Amsterdam on January 22.

2026/01/05 → This post is so great I want to frame it

2026/01/04 → The fine folks at Astral have created a new type checker and language server for Python, called ty!

2025/12/27 → 📣📣📣 LLM-powered coding mass-produces technical debt. 📣📣📣

2025/12/20 → A great explanation of why RAM prices have risen

2025/12/18 → Work with agents on the terminal?

2025/12/18 → "However, whenever a customer went beyond the rigid scripts, the chat had to be routed to a person, only to reset the pa

2025/12/12 → What we all knew all along: Italian cuisine is the superior choice!

2025/12/11 → Can't decide which LLM to use?

2025/12/10 → What a marvelously succinct article about typography with a punchy take-home message!

2025/12/09 → Use agents, they said. You will save time, they said.

2025/12/02 → Speciale holds a dear spot in my heart, not just because it’s a delightful word when pronounced by poets, but because ho

2025/11/25 → This is so cool on so many different levels: the unsure calculator!

2025/11/25 → Still thinking about what happened two weeks ago, when Databricks awarded us the Databricks BeNeLux Top Growth Regional

2025/11/13 → Tuesday, while having lunch, Bas de Kan was proudly telling me about the efficient stack he and Daniël Tom lastly built

2025/11/13 → This is a great post by Lysanne van Beek about the misconceptions and surprises she encountered during our Intro to AI c

2025/11/06 → Thrilled that we have been awarded the BeNeLux Top Growth Regional partner by Databricks!

2025/11/04 → PEP 810

2025/10/30 → Some big news landed this week around AI-assisted coding!

2025/10/21 → Had a lot of fun this morning at GoDataFest.com with Anindita M. and Chozhan D M in a panel about the results of our Dat

2025/10/17 → Claude skills are a big deal™️

2025/10/15 → Oh the irony

2025/10/15 → Come for the title, stay for the salacious questions like “how do elderly people have sex” (the answer given in the arti

2025/10/14 → What does it mean to be a trend setter?

2025/10/13 → We're so proud to partner with MotherDuck on their launch of a new EU region 🎉🎉🎉

2025/10/12 → Why does Microsoft let you turn off AI just 3 times a year?

2025/10/05 → If, like me, you weren’t familiar with DSPy, this was a great talk given at the Databricks Data & AI summit to walk you

2025/10/01 → Data Lakehouse seems to be a new buzzword; everyone wants it, but do you really need it?

2025/09/18 → Why do AI initiatives fail to deliver the value they promise?

2025/09/12 → I basically never hear the fan of my Macbook Pro, but if I do, I know whose fault it is

2025/08/29 → My favorite shirt has a great quote on it: "Without Data, you're just a person with an opinion."

2025/08/28 → No

2025/07/02 → Being a parents brings you joy, responsibilities, and boring stuff.

2025/06/30 → I always thought that in the summer, everyone's is vacationing and it doesn't make sense to run any courses.

2025/06/19 → Yesterday, I attended the AWS GenAI for Healthcare Summit in Lisbon.

2025/06/18 → Next up at the AWS GenAI for Health Summit:

2025/06/18 → Excited to be at the AWS hashtag#GenAI for Health Summit in Lisbon!

2025/06/11 → The limits of LLM remain beautiful. This happened to me today and… Imagine if it happened in production to you!

2025/05/29 → What a spectacular view from Google Cloud’s Space Oddity room in London.

2025/05/28 → Prepping up for my talk at Google Cloud this evening.

2025/05/28 → Late to the party—just read this post by Jeroen Overschie on why you should use LLMs for data extraction and what role t

2025/05/27 → Ouch! GitHub MCP server is susceptible to access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions and the ability to

2025/05/24 → I love Claude Opus 4’s new model card

2025/04/15 → AI can go wrong. GenAI can go spectacularly wrong.

2025/04/14 → It took some time, but we're relaunching THE survey to gauge what's going on in hashtag#data & hashtag#AI in 2025!

2025/04/09 → What a stunning article about why uv is 10-100x faster that the competition.

2025/04/06 → Meta just dropped Llama 4—on a weekend, can we ever catch a break? 😀—and there are two open weights models, Scout and M

2025/03/31 → I am honored to be a panelist at the Tech Summit Europe on Thursday, representing Xebia during the Unleashing AI: How to

2025/03/26 → Security debt is the worst debt you can accumulate! And, when it comes to Data & AI, it means your Data is at risk, and

2025/03/20 → Really cool features of the new Mac Studios by Apple: with just 20,000$ of hardware, you can run the FULL DeepSeek R1 mo

2025/03/16 → With all this LLM news going around, we forgot the most exciting thing Apple 🍎 did this year.

2025/03/14 → Called it

2025/03/14 → Big news in LLM land landed yesterday!

2025/03/12 → Analytics at the speed of your thoughts!

2025/02/18 → Small language models can be a game changer, but they have often to be trained to a very specific task!

2025/02/13 → What's the impact of DeepSeek AI V3 and R1 on the hashtag#GenAI market and on coding in particular?

2025/02/12 → If you’re not leveraging hashtag#AI right now, you’re already behind. But here’s the twist—embracing AI without a clear

2025/02/11 → I was not expecting X to grow their EBITDA from 13% to almost 50% under Elon, but here we are

2025/02/10 → Research shows that while 90% of executives view data as an opportunity 📈, 70% report minimal or no gains 📉.

2025/02/10 → It was a pleasure to be a guest—along with Nuno Faustino and Vishal Nigam—at the Bind2Tech podcast hosted by Waheed Naji

2025/02/08 → With the recent turmoil around data, privacy, and storing GDPR-protected data in US-owned data centers, programmatically

2025/02/07 → With the release of DeepSeek R1, many companies are rightfully thinking of replacing whatever hashtag#LLM they’re using

2025/02/05 → Thank you Cosmando Byarugaba for hosting Bas Heemskerk and myself at the KLM office to get inspired about all things has

2025/01/04 → If you’re into cooking and into physics 🙋🏻‍♂️ you CANNOT miss this paper on how to prepare the perfect pasta cacio and

2025/01/03 → Reading Simon Willison‘s excellent blog on “Things we learned about LLMs in 2024”, made me realize why we’re not seeing

2025/01/03 → Really cool application of AI — no hashtag#genai involved, though!

2024/12/28 → One of the most amazing changes hashtag#genai has brought to the corporate world is that, while a talking head flips thr

2024/12/12 → hashtag#GenAI is cool, but do you know what's even cooler?

2024/12/09 → Learn how we helped the largest supplier of spare parts for the agricultural and construction industries in Europe set u

2024/12/09 → Why shouldn't hashtag#data teams let the business query raw data and they are insisting on preparing the data?

2024/12/09 → It was a pleasure to be a guest on Tim Freestone's Objective Hiring Podcast, talking about the Impact of hashtag#ai on H

2024/12/07 → What a great quote and great tool

2024/11/27 → When you receive a 3-slide presentation and you look at how many fonts they use

2024/11/22 → Proud of how we helped VodafoneZiggo upskill data-savvy employees to become proficient data engineers

2024/10/22 → When we started working with Danone in 2020, they realized data literacy was no longer a useful skill but an essential o

2024/10/18 → A train to Haarlem, a picturesque city in the Netherlands, on an early morning on route to deliver an Hadoop training.

2024/10/13 → Mindlessly use Copilot at your own risk

2024/10/11 → I can see where the market is going by seeing what my colleagues are up to, often months or years before the rest find o

2024/10/08 → Can't remember a badge cooler than this one

2024/10/01 → There is one thing that, as an Italian, is very dear to my ♥️: good food.

2024/09/28 → Repeat after me:

2024/09/28 → Your data is only valuable if it can steer your business.

2024/09/14 → Everything we’ve ever been told about blue zones and longevity is actually about pension fraud:

2024/09/09 → Interesting article that highlights one of the dangers of AI: automation bias.

2024/08/22 → We are always humbled when one customer decides to stand beside us on stage and tell everyone how we achieved success to

2024/08/21 → I really hope uv emerges as the one-stop shop for working with Python packages, projects, command-line tools, single-fil

2024/08/03 → In a week that crashed stockholders’ hype about AI, we published a blog post exploring all things hashtag#data and hasht

2024/07/19 → Millions of links are about to be silenced by hashtag#Google and they will soon be no more.

2024/06/04 → Do you know what your 1% is?

2024/05/31 → One of Xebia’s values is knowledge sharing.

2024/05/31 → 😂 Gen AI is many things, but boring is not one of them

2024/05/24 → Due to popular demand, we're organizing a new Xebia Data Academy learning week next week!

2024/05/24 → It won't be robots that destroy humanity; instead, AI will make us poison ourselves by hijacking our best recipes!

2024/05/23 → Have you ever thought of adding some non-toxic glue to your pizza? 🍕

2024/05/23 → Do they have no honor left?

2024/05/22 → How’s that Gen AI ROI looking now?

2024/05/22 → Tech companies are pushing Gen AI everywhere.

2024/05/19 → Is Europe cyber infrastructure ready for a war(-like) situation?

2024/05/17 → Slack had the time to set up all the controls to train AI model on your data, but they couldn’t bother to create a check

2024/05/15 → This is also mighty interesting in terms of hashtag#sustainability and AI.

2024/05/13 → hashtag#sustainability tip: don’t use ChatGPT when Google could give you the answer!

2024/05/10 → I’d love to get my hands on the raw data for this graph showing the decline of the number of mentions of hashtag#esg, ha

2024/05/07 → If you read my previous post (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/giovanni-lanzani-19561824_i-often-talk-with-clients-about-how-knowledge-activity-7181997875189403648-TRWE) about the amount of knowledge-sharing we have done, you might be

2024/05/05 → Fantastic LLM song, via https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/112380073199982452

2024/04/29 → Bleak outlook for hashtag#genai

2024/04/19 → I still remember two years ago when Rob Dielemans and I were thinking of opening a Xebia Data office in Zürich.

2024/04/18 → Fascinating article on the effects of cheap labor on the language AI tools use!

2024/04/05 → I often talk with clients about how knowledge sharing is one of our core values.

2024/04/03 → Distributed hashtag#machinelearning has mainly two flavors: model and data parallelism.

2024/03/28 → Happy to announce Data Learning Week, our latest Data initiative at the Xebia Academy!

2024/03/02 → Great article on the nuances of Gemini and why many have labeled it (pun intended) as woke

2024/02/15 → Looking forward to participating in a panel to discuss how AI is shaping our society at the Tech Summit Europe.

2024/02/12 → "The biggest barriers to productivity (e.g., vague goals and processes) don’t magically disappear the moment an employee

2024/02/09 → What’s happening in China is really interesting. If we trust their official figures and estimates, the economy was drive

2024/02/08 → Analyzing data of protons traveling just 11 km/h less than the speed of light (299.781 km/s!), was Rogier van der Geer's

2024/01/19 → We've done it! We at Xebia Data are now officially motherduckers, one of the few amazing partners of MotherDuck (https:/

2024/01/15 → Every year, 16 billion euros are laundered in the Netherlands. We're able to just catch 2% of that.

2024/01/12 → When there's still 15' out of a meeting, and you see the slide count

2024/01/04 → One of the great things Xebia has to offer is the opportunity to always be learning.

2024/01/03 → One of my most popular LinkedIn posts expressed my surprise when 3-4 years ago I was shown a waiting list to enter the R

2023/12/20 → Some people write reviews, and some people write literature.

2023/12/19 → Microsoft firing shots at monday.com

2023/12/08 → True storytelling mastery

2023/11/21 → Andrew Palmer hits it out of the ballpark again in the latest issue of The Economist

2023/10/30 → I would love for Apple to re-introduce removable batteries

2023/10/19 → Next week, GoDataFest will take place.

2023/09/28 → Don’t be like Haggis.

2023/09/25 → Unsurprisingly, it has been found LLMs cannot generalize.

2023/09/22 → I'm really bullish on the future of DuckDB.

2023/09/01 → How do you change the culture of your organization to become data-driven?

2023/08/23 → One of the advantages of having a company attracting the brightest in their field is having the honor to witness how the

2023/07/31 → A parent’s vacation, in 1 picture.

2023/07/20 → As I'm heading into the summer break, with the auto-reply already chugging along since yesterday, I finally found the ti

2023/07/06 → Your_great_company.com talks about diversity and inclusion, and then you make John feel included by assigning him john.d

2023/07/05 → 🚨 RED ALERT 🚨 BAD WEATHER, GREAT TALKS 🚨

2023/06/20 → Hyperbolic takes spark good discussions 🔥

2023/06/16 → Every time I use hashtag#gpt4 through our hashtag#slackgpt integration, I'm reminded how lucky I am to work among the br

2023/06/01 → Inspired by Simon Willison,  I took ChatGPT for a spin and wrote my first app in Golang.

2023/05/31 → The crypto bros are at it again.

2023/05/30 → Getting started for a webinar about the role of AI in learning & development

2023/05/25 → You might think AI is there to get your job.