The AI x Workflow Conundrum

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,…

Peak Software?

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…

Markdown is the new way to use text, change my mind.

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:…

Key Principles for Developing with AI

The article was originally posted on LinkedIn. During earlier experiments, I discovered key guidance for framing prompts and conversations when using AI as a "pair programmer" or "tasked agent." Extensive research exists on how to optimize model output, with various approaches like RISEN offering different strategies.…