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US vs. Japan IT Industries — "Product" and "Service," and the AI Reshuffle
AI
GenAI

US vs. Japan IT Industries — "Product" and "Service," and the AI Reshuffle

In the US, an "IT company" means Microsoft or NVIDIA; in Japan, it means NTT Data or Fujitsu. The same words point to different things. One side mass-produces products for the world; the other supports each customer's bespoke operations. That structural gap has split revenue, talent, and competitiveness. How does generative AI reshape it? A look from Japan's weaknesses and strengths.

The Skill AI Can't Beat: Data Engineering
DATA
Data & DB

The Skill AI Can't Beat: Data Engineering

Coding agents are strong at logic and tests. But they can't tell what a piece of data means, who owns it, how fresh it flows, or which copy is authoritative. It follows from the fact that today's AI has no embodiment: the people who rise in value are those who can design the meaning, quality, lineage, and responsibility of data. A look at the trend with the latest data-engineering discussion.

My Book Is Out: 'From AI User to AI Mentor' — The Five-Part Series, Now in One Volume

The five-part series that began with 'How Not to Let AI Take Your Career' has been compiled into a single book. It maps how beginners, intermediates, and leaders can turn AI from an answer machine into a partner for building, teaching, and multiplying experience. Available on Leanpub and Buy Me a Coffee (English) and Zenn (Japanese).

The Skill of Not Building in the AI Agent Era (5) — Six Checks to Run Before You Start

Will that code still be needed once the next model ships? Six things worth checking before you start.

The Skill of Not Building in the AI Agent Era (4) — Implementations That Don't Repay the Effort, and the Case for Waiting

Homegrown long-term memory, a workflow DSL, a model router. Each one works, and each is genuinely interesting to build. But what if three months of waiting made them unnecessary?

The Skill of Not Building in the AI Agent Era (3) — Run the Loop Instead of Writing by Hand

Boris Cherny, who built Claude Code, says he hasn't hand-written a line of code in eight months. Is the craft of polishing prompts giving way to the craft of designing loops?

The Skill of Not Building in the AI Agent Era (2) — Implementations at the Platform's Mercy

The code runs and the tests pass. Only the value of using it has vanished. A look at this failure mode as a stranded asset rather than technical debt.

The Skill of Not Building in the AI Agent Era (1) — Third Parties Swallowed by the Platform

PDF chat, AI slides, ChatGPT plugins: all standard features of ChatGPT and Gemini now. Where did the implementations that once powered them go?

US vs. Japan IT Industries — "Product" and "Service," and the AI Reshuffle

In the US, an "IT company" means Microsoft or NVIDIA; in Japan, it means NTT Data or Fujitsu. The same words point to different things. One side mass-produces products for the world; the other supports each customer's bespoke operations. That structural gap has split revenue, talent, and competitiveness. How does generative AI reshape it? A look from Japan's weaknesses and strengths.

The Skill AI Can't Beat: Data Engineering

Coding agents are strong at logic and tests. But they can't tell what a piece of data means, who owns it, how fresh it flows, or which copy is authoritative. It follows from the fact that today's AI has no embodiment: the people who rise in value are those who can design the meaning, quality, lineage, and responsibility of data. A look at the trend with the latest data-engineering discussion.