What a CEO Should Do When Legal Says No to AI
The CEO asks why the company still has no serious AI adoption plan. The CTO wants to move. Engineering wants approved tooling. Legal says no.
Blanket AI Bans Are Really Talent Bans
Every company has a talent strategy. Some choose it. Some just get it by veto. A blanket AI ban is one way to get it
Poof! You’re an accounting package
I pay about $2,200 a year for QuickBooks for a small boutique design firm, real mom-and-pop backbone-of-America kind of business. I was getting ready to
What Year Is It?
Everyone wants to talk about the future that AI will bring. I’d like to point out that we’re still losing small fights like the one
If Your Engineers Don’t Want to Manage Work, AI Will Be a Problem
AI is shifting engineering away from pure individual problem-solving and toward defining, directing, and reviewing work. Engineers who resist that shift for the same reasons
Where Have All the Senior Engineers Gone?
Everyone wants the productivity gain. Few want to talk about the staffing problem it may create. If AI removes a meaningful share of junior engineering
The Market Value of Software Skill Is About to Change
Why AI is starting to reprice implementation skill, and why many engineers still do not want to admit it. The most common frame for AI
The Off-Screen Helper in Senior Embedded Interviews
We have been interviewing for a Senior Embedded Engineer, and a pattern keeps showing up: candidates sitting at their computer during the interview and using
OpenClaw and the Security Problem Nobody Wants to Own
OpenClaw is a glimpse of the future: software that does real work for you. It is also a case study in how unbounded open source, plus viral distribution, turns helpful into credential theft waiting to happen.