--- title: 'Silicon Florist links arrangement for December 23, 2025' date: '2025-12-23T10:20:00-08:00' type: post word_count: 379 char_count: 3276 tokens: 493 categories: - Portland --- # Silicon Florist links arrangement for December 23, 2025 Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today: [The Shape of Artificial Intelligence – by Alberto Romero](https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/the-shape-of-artificial-intelligence?utm_source=tldrai) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are the earliest historians of this weird, elusive technology, and as such, it’s our duty to begin a conversation that’s likely to take decades (or centuries, if we remain alive by then) to be fully fleshed out, once spatial and temporal distance reveal what we’re looking at. [2026 Predictions – by FD – Robonomics](https://robonomics.substack.com/p/2026-predictions?utm_source=tldrai) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2026 may also be the first year the AI trade meaningfully splits into AI infra vs. AI applications. Clear winners on the application side should continue to get bid up. Losers, or companies where AI raises terminal-value risk, may keep getting punished. [A Year Of Vibes | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings](https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/22/a-year-of-vibes/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2025 draws to a close and it’s been quite a year. Around this time last year, I wrote a post that reflected on my life. Had I written about programming, it might have aged badly, as 2025 has been a year like no other for my profession. [12 Predictions for 2026 | Tomasz Tunguz](https://tomtunguz.com/2026-predictions/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12 predictions for 2026 : AI agents out-earn people, the web flips to agent-first design, stablecoins hit 30% of global payments, & Cloudflare becomes the gatekeeper for agentic payments. [2025 Leaps, 2026 Plans – by Sam Keen – Altered Craft](https://alteredcraft.com/p/2025-leaps-2026-plans) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portland AI Engineers became a thing. Co-founding this community has been one of the unexpected highlights of my year. Portland has a stellar tech scene, and the response was immediate (~1k members and growing). We’ve had engagement from remarkably diverse people doing fascinating work. Monthly meetups have become something I genuinely look forward to, not just facilitate. [Why Custom Evals Matter for Production LLMs | Dr. Randal S. Olson](https://www.randalolson.com/2025/12/22/why-custom-evals-matter-for-production-llms/) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This happens because generic benchmarks measure breadth across many tasks. Your application needs depth on one specific task. The only way to know if a model will work for you is to evaluate it on your data. This is why custom evals matter for production LLMs.