Vibe coding and genuine excellence pull in opposite directions. One eliminates the conditions required for craft. The other requires them.
Local LLMs like Mistral Medium 3.5 have crossed the line from research project to real architectural option. Here's who should be looking at on-prem AI.
This week's executive brief covers UAE's OPEC exit, major AI partnerships at OpenAI and Google, nuclear energy shifts, and AI code ownership debates.
Walmart's ChatGPT checkout converted at one-third the rate of its regular website. The failure was a mismatch between what the agent was optimized for and what customers need at the moment of purchase.
Developers using AI thought they were 20% faster. A controlled trial found they were 19% slower. That 43-point gap is a governance problem most frameworks don't address.
Companies stopped replacing junior developers. That quiet shift is eroding the apprenticeship pipeline that produces senior engineers capable of supervising AI.
This week's executive brief covers France's shift to Linux, John Deere's right-to-repair settlement, AI liability legislation, and data center bans.
This week's executive brief covers February's surprise job losses, the AI-written code verification problem, Nvidia exiting OpenAI and Anthropic, drone attacks on AWS data centers, and Apple's $599 MacBook.
METR's developer productivity study collapsed because developers refuse to work without AI. What that means for how organizations should measure AI investments.
The AI failures that cost real money aren't the spectacular ones. They're quiet — silent model updates, unmonitored systems, pilot gaps, and automating broken processes.
Rackspace has just announced their open source cloud platform, OpenStack in collaboration with NASA. While the open source world has been a viable area
A case study on using agile project management methods to deliver a software product in half the time at less than half the cost.
I just finished the book "Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide" by Craig Larman. This book provides a very good overview for managers of
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