Where the New Ideas in AI Are Showing Up
The AI builder feed is full of clones and tooling. The new ideas are in drug trials, weather models, classrooms and farms, and the bigger risk is everyone using the same tools until their ideas look alike.
The Handoff Problem
AI coding agents made building cheap. The decisions behind the work rarely land where the next person starts, and that's where the savings leak.
AI Didn't Invent Your Data Problem
Two AI data readiness studies both land on 7%, and they measure different things. The silo problem AI trips over is twenty years old, and readiness starts with one workflow.
One of My First Milky Way Attempts
A lone pine on the Grand Canyon rim under broken cloud, from one of my first attempts at capturing the Milky Way.
What You Lose in the Tunnel
A third of companies that made AI-led cuts have already rehired a quarter to half the roles. Outsourcing taught this lesson once, and the escape hatch is closing.
Sunrise over Reflection Canyon
Sunrise from the rim of Reflection Canyon after an overnight hike off Hole-in-the-Rock Road near Escalante, Utah.
Foto Friday: The Canyon in Winter
Sunrise from the south rim of the Grand Canyon in February, when the storm clouds show up and the whole sky lights.
What Would Make This Fail?
An automated check tells you one dimension passed. Everyone reads a green result as the work being fine, and that gap widens with every check you add.
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