I built my wife a band. The lock on the vault was the real story.
This is an article about a vault. The one in the back of my head marked 'you don't have the talent for this.' It just lost its lock, and I want to tell you how.
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My thoughts on life, love, and everything.
I Learned About AI from a 40-Year-Old Chatbot
RAG systems retrieve and synthesize. Then they discard. Every query starts fresh. That's not knowledge management — it's fast lookup with a language layer on top. Eliza did the same trick.
Read more →Gardeners, Not Gatekeepers
The instinct most companies reach for when AI starts spreading through the org is gatekeepers. I think that is the wrong answer. My answer is gardeners.
Read more →Your Moat Is Responsibility
Vibe coders can clone your features overnight. They cannot clone your compliance, your data obligations, or the promise you made to the people who trusted you.
Read more →It's Not Cheating
My son is using AI like a search engine, and getting burned by hallucinations. The fix isn't a better model — it's learning to treat your first prompt as a draft.
Read more →You Bought the Tokens, Now What?
Buying everyone an AI seat and watching the usage dashboard is not a strategy. If you did not define what behavioral change looks like before you rolled out, you are flying blind.
Read more →The Lights Just Came On
Coinbase cut 14% and said every leader must be an individual contributor. AI doesn't change that judgment call — it just makes the gap between those who get it and those who don't impossible to hide.
Read more →The New Developer Superpower Isn't Writing Code
AI writes code faster than most developers can type. The bottleneck is no longer implementation — it's judgment. And judgment is the one thing the agent can never have.
Read more →Shite Code That Works Is Still Shite Code
When AI writes your code and it works, does code quality still matter? Cal reflects on V1 of his distillery booking bot and wrestles with what it means to be the client instead of the coder.
Read more →The Maintenance Gap: Who Owns This After It Ships?
AI has lowered the bar to build software, but the bar to maintain it hasn't moved. Before you ship, ask who owns it after it's done.
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