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Thinking out loud on AI, automation, and how senior practitioners actually use these tools.
Vibe Coding Won't Kill Developers. It'll Kill the Middle.
When good cameras got cheap, everyone predicted the death of professional photography. The prediction landed wrong. The low end died outright: stock libraries, cheap portraits, mass-event coverage...
80% of Companies Are Already Out of Step With the AI Act and Don't Know It
The tool worked. That was never the problem. A business manager had specced it with AI, straight from the business need, and the result did what he asked: it ran, it produced output, it looked...
Is Your Knowledge Base Actually Thinking, or Just Retrieving?
A while back I was able to build a working knowledge base in less than an hour. Fifty-five minutes to be accurate. I started by opening VS Code with Claude Code in the side panel. I had documentation...
The On-Premise LLM Lottery
I lost a full long weekend to OpenClaw once. Friday to Sunday, trying to get it running locally with an on-premise LLM on my personal machine. The machine was reasonably capable, though nothing close...
Notes from the Cyber AI Expo: the tool is not the point
I went to the Cyber / AI Expo in Munich a couple of days ago expecting a sales floor. There was one. The thing I came away thinking about, though, wasn't on any booth. The expo was predictable...
The Hidden Mental Model That Determines Whether AI Tools Help You
I built a working knowledge base while I was in a one-hour company meeting, waiting for my turn to give my briefing. Even I was surprised at how fast it came together. And it was not a mockup. It was...
Can a Non-Coder Become a Coder Just With AI?
My company decided to lean into AI — to let people who had never written code build real software with it. I thought that was the right call, and I still do. The logic behind the decision seems...
AI in the Data, Code in the Process
If you need the same answer twice, don't use AI. I learned this the hard way during a project where headquarters mandated to use OpenClaw - an AI orchestration platform and workflow automation tool...
AI Doesn't Think For You, It Thinks Like You
A few weeks ago a Business Manager handed me a 50-page AI-generated technical spec. The document was impressive. The perspective behind it was the problem. I had talked to him a few days earlier...
My two days at the Milano AI Week 2026
I went to Milano AI Week 2026 expecting demos. I came back with observations — about the technology, the people, and a few small things I didn't expect to remember. The event is positioned as...
Why Your AI Proof-of-Concept Will Never Make It to Production
The demo was flawless. The AI model processed customer support tickets in real-time, categorized them accurately, and even drafted preliminary responses that sounded human. The VP of Customer Success...