It's AI Month at Work: The Conversation April is “AI Month” at work, and we’ve seen great engagement with our Learn and Build tracks. The conversations have been inclusive, featuring both strong advocacy for AI and thoughtful critiques on its potential impact on the enterprise. One critique…
Claude Code leaked recently due to a misconfigured software pipeline—the digital equivalent of leaving the back door to the vault wide open. The internet reaction was swift; while it wasn't quite a "Gangnam Style" server-breaking event, people rushed to grab the source code before the…
We love talking about AI in extremes; we focus on total disruption, mass unemployment, or the rise of robot overlords. We spend endless cycles on financing and existential risks, often overlooking the practical reality of how this technology actually shows up at work today. To move from speculation to strategy,…
Back in the 1950s, a paper was published suggesting that there was an upper limit to the amount of oil that could be produced globally, which was expected to be reached in the early 2000s. After that point, it would all be used up, and oil as a resource would…
If you don't know what Markdown is, you might be in the same position as someone 40 years ago who was still struggling to figure out what this WordPerfect thing was and how it was better than the IBM Selectric. To draw that story out a bit more:…
It’s been a hot minute since my last post about skills. The meme isn't a lie: skills pay the bills. But in today’s world, it isn’t enough to just say you have the skills to do the job. You have to show it. This is…
AI is fundamentally changing software development, but not in the way many people think. While tools can now accelerate code production, the core of great software has never been more human-centric. It still requires a deep understanding of engineering principles to build solutions that are test-driven, scalable, and genuinely useful…
When the Department of Defense (DoD) first rolled out the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), it was meant to be an evolution; a push for better cyber hygiene across the defense industrial base. Let's be real, any time the government dictates how the private sector should operate, it&…