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2026
- The Coding Agent That Doesn't Code
The Friday That Wrote Itself Last Friday, I used a coding agent for eight hours straight. I didn’t write a single line of code. I prepared a customer meeting by pulling context from Slack threads, cal…

- On the Loop, Not In It — But Code Quality Still Matters
On the Loop, Not In It, But Code Quality Still Matters Yesterday one of my AI agents wasted 15 minutes chasing a bug that didn’t exist. The function was called transformPayload(), but it didn’t transf…

- Technology Evolution Doesn't Move in a Straight Line—It Spirals
Technology Evolution Doesn’t Move in a Straight Line. It Spirals The Proud Ops Colleague Years ago, an Ops colleague proudly showed me something new. ClusterSSH, cssh [1]. A tool that opens multiple t…

- 💰 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸—𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗨𝗜 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮
💰 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸, 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗨𝗜 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 Just before heading out for my lunch run, I read the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s article “Advertisi…
- 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗯: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲
𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗯: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 Just returning from an internal Amazon Connect deep[1] dive. I haven’t touched this particular product since maybe 5 years?! Di…
- Most comprehensive overview on RAG I have seen. We came a long way from vanilla RAG. Still remember
Most comprehensive overview on RAG I have seen. We came a long way from vanilla RAG. Still remember the time of arguments that RAG is just a “hot fix” to be obsolete soon. Reality is it is not a fix b…
- What Anthropic is describing is the weaker version of this technique: applied externally, without pe
“What Anthropic is describing is the weaker version of this technique: applied externally, without permission, at an adversarial scale. Yet 16 million exchanges suggest MiniMax found the weaker versio…
- IT System Maintenance in the age of AI
IT System Maintenance in the age of AI Introduction - The Maintenance Trap in IT You don’t need to be in the IT industry for long to have witnessed this firsthand. Even non-IT users do. Those systems …

- 🔧 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗽: 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗧 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀
🔧 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗽: 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗧 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 After years of watching organizations struggle with outdated systems, I’ve written about a pattern we all know too well, th…
- From my perspective balancing AI Agents Agency with Control is one of the most important themes for
From my perspective balancing AI Agents Agency with Control is one of the most important themes for 2026. We need to get this right both as builders and users for AI Agentic systems. Anthropic’s study…