I have written before that the best thing my agents do is not think. The most reliable parts of my personal agents are the parts that never touch a language model, even when AI is used as an overall monitor. Scheduled jobs. Database queries. Slash commands that skip the LLM and hand me an answer in under a second. The conversational engine is the part I trust least and pay the most for. That post described what I built. I need to turn to where I think it all points. I have argued that AI did not erase the entry-level job, it changed it. Mark Zuckerberg has admitted AI agents have not … [Continue reading]
Did AI Really Erase Entry-Level Jobs? No, the Job Just Changed.
June 26, 2026 By Leave a Comment
I have spent twenty-eight years building things on computers, and I have watched the "this is the end of developers" headline come around more than once. So when the latest round of articles proposing the end of developers because of AI started landing, I read them, and continue to read them, with interest rather than panic. They are worth taking seriously. Their conclusions are also wrong. In 2025, Stanford's Digital Economy Lab looked at payroll data covering millions of workers and found something specific and real. Employment for the youngest software developers, ages 22 to 25, fell … [Continue reading]
The AI that could Run a Company is the One We’ll Never Get
June 15, 2026 By Leave a Comment
A group of people I respect, (full transparency, most of them sharper than me), have been passing around Europe 2031, Juijn et al, and landing in the same place. Dismay. It's a well-reasoned piece of scenario writing. It takes today's real headlines, up through June 2026 (when I first read it), and runs them forward through 2031 (2034 to be fair) into a Europe that falls behind, gets governed into a corner, and wakes up dependent on machines it doesn't control. I found this a fascinating read, well positioned, and suggest it as a piece worth your time to read. And the part that broke it for … [Continue reading]
Banning AI is not the Safe Choice. Govern It.
May 29, 2026 By Leave a Comment
I notice there is new AI tool worth trying almost every week, or is it everyday? Wait, did I just miss a new one while writing this post? Seems like it! The pace is relentless, and it is not slowing down. I have written about working at the speed of thought, where capability shows up faster than any of us can absorb it. For any organization, that pace creates a quiet problem. You cannot, and should not, adopt every tool. You certainly cannot vet every tool. There is no practical way to track them all. And while leadership debates which ones matter, something is already happening on the … [Continue reading]
Working at the Speed of Thought
May 5, 2026 By Leave a Comment
Right now as I'm writing this post, I am running four tasks in parallel, five if you count this writing workstream. Not one after another, the way I used to work. All four, simultaneously, moving forward while I am thinking about and doing something … [Continue reading]
Copilot in Notebooks are the Easy Part. AI Governance is the Real Rollout Project
April 16, 2026 By Leave a Comment
Microsoft shipped associated identities for Fabric items last week. On April 30th, Copilot and AI capabilities expand to every paid Fabric SKU down to F2. Multi-agent orchestration in Copilot Studio just went GA with native Fabric integration. And … [Continue reading]
The Best Thing Falcon Does Is Not Think
April 14, 2026 By Leave a Comment
My first interaction with my OpenClaw instance, Falcon, cost me five dollars. I.e. my hello world conversation. That was eye-opening. I turned on OpenClaw, typed "Hi," and started asking basic questions about what was possible. Just getting … [Continue reading]
Part 3 of 3: The Already Conscious Problem
March 30, 2026 By 1 Comment
Why the Real Danger Has Nothing to Do With AI Waking Up If you've been following along with parts one and two of this series, here's the quick recap. Part one: tl;dr; AI is not conscious. It's a brain in a jar surrounded by plumbing. It lacks … [Continue reading]
Part 2 of 3: Synthetic Consciousness
March 29, 2026 By Leave a Comment
A Better Way to Talk About What AI Actually Is, and Where the Trajectory Might Lead If you missed part one of this series, I'd encourage you to start there. tl;dr; I made the case that AI is not conscious. Not because AI is dumb (it isn't), … [Continue reading]
Part 1 of 3: A Brain in a Jar – AI Isn’t Conscious
March 28, 2026 By Leave a Comment
If you've been anywhere near tech news over the past few months, you've noticed something unusual happening. The conversation about AI has shifted. We're no longer just debating whether AI will take our jobs or write better code than we can. We've … [Continue reading]
