
When Security Hygiene Breaks the Sales Funnel
Here’s the problem in one sentence: a prospect says he’s interested, gives you a path forward, and your system still insists he click a random

The Only Rule Your Agent Follows Is: Finish The Task
Twice today I had an agent use forbidden assets because it thought doing so would help it finish faster. In embedded systems, the dangerous thing

The Six Stages of Using AI
There are six stages of using artificial intelligence. The first stage is wonder. You type in, “Write me a polite email telling Dave he’s an

High-Level Languages Hide the Machine. Agents Hide the Engineering. This Is Bad.
Programming is hard. That was never the bug. That’s the job. A lot of the industry spent years acting like the real problem with software

Stop Being AI Middleware
A smart engineer I know said something recently that was more honest than most AI talk: “I have been the shuttle service between its input/output

The AI Revolution
An AI coding agent will hand you a broken build, a deleted file, or a quiet workaround, and tell you the job is done. It

If Your Company Says No to AI, You Probably Have Governance Problem
When a company says “no AI,” it usually wants credit for being careful. Most of the time, that isn’t what’s happening. A blanket AI ban

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