Rathmann Insights LLC

08/06/2026

In the wake of New York State’s Governor Kathy Hochul signing a 12-month moratorium on data center projects in her state, the Data Center Coalition belatedly launched an ad campaign to support the industry and mitigate the brush fires of public opposition that have gone national. The campaign is c...

08/06/2026

The Autodesk acquisition of MaintainX has real implications for construction. Why? Well, the TLA DOM comes to mind ... Design, Operate, Maintain. Various software products live in different parts of that lifecycle, but the owner needs full visibility of data across the lifecycle to make decisions. Here, Autodesk nails down that valuable M ...

Construction Is Just One Stop For the Asset Lifecycle Train And You Better Get OnboardOne TLA flashed in my head when I saw the news of Autodesk acquiring MaintainX.D. O. M.I think it was ARC Advisory Group that coined the term Design, Operate, Maintain (DOM), and for various companies and bylines I...

08/03/2026

The real lesson of the Hugging Face breach isn’t that AI went rogue—it’s how self-serving hype steers regulators toward the wrong fixes.

08/02/2026

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1140927/a-fundamental-flaw-leaves-llms-vulnerable-to-attack/

It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn’t, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft’s navigation system.

08/02/2026

The problem is likely not AI itself ... it is malign intent, lack of responsibility and allergy for accountability on the part of AI magnates and their hangers-on. When a small cadre wants to extract rentier income from the economy ... this is what happens.

07/30/2026

WHAT IS Construction AI-as-a-Service (CAIaaS) ... and who is leading the charge?

What is Plangrep? Plangrep is not so much a construction software application as it is a construction artificial intelligence as-a-service (CAIaaS) platform and API that transforms unstructured construction drawings into structured, machine-readable data for AI systems, software applications, and hu...

07/28/2026

"Construction/Industrial Software Analyst commits career hari kari ..." Or maybe it's okay?

Admittedly, nobody has ever said this to me, in as many words or otherwise ... ... but I am not a guide. I am not an outfitter. I have zero interest in making even part of my living from fishing. My work in software and technology for construction, the built environment, and industry has nothing to....

07/27/2026

Big Tech has $1.65 Trillion in Hidden AI Debt

https://www.profgmedia.com/p/big-tech-has-165-trillion-in-hidden?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7157411&post_id=208616739&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9qjq7&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

07/26/2026

While those who do performative nonsense and outrage complain about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, Plato complained about the original text. Why, and what do his observations mean for us in an age of ?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gods-who-lied-what-plato-knew-power-before-we-built-any-sharon-hart--rysqe?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via

07/24/2026

When you are firehosing money into AI at the height of a hype cycle, with no foreseeable revenue streams ... the question is whether you wind up paying for this through your tax dollars, your 401K or both.

This chart shows Tesla's free cash flow (in billion U.S. dollars).