AI Researchers studied AI layoffs. Here’s their warning. The problem is that companies operate in a competitive environment. Your competitors are using AI to cut costs, so your company is forced to do the same (i.e., trapped). Doing so has…
Software Development The complete AI Coding workflow: learn mattpocock/skills in 17 minutes Matt Pocock went over how to install and configure his set of popular skills. He also walked through an end-to-end example. The sequence is grill-with-docs, to-spec, to-tickets, implement,…
AI NDC Copenhagen Keynote: After the AI Hype –What’s Real, and What’s Next I remember listening to Richard Campbell on .NET Rocks!, and he has a fantastic mind. He’s been through many of the “revolutions” in tech (the Internet, mobile,…
AI Building Great Agent Skills: The Missing Manual Why AI Has Failed to Take Your Job Since 1976 There have been many advancements in machine learning (e.g., Mycin, Watson, LLMs) that ultimately fail(ed) to deliver a radical change. This video…
AI Implement harness engineering to ensure high-quality, sustainable software development. The AI Skills Nobody is Teaching (And Everyone Needs) | AI Expert Ethan Mollick Consulting The Secrets of Consulting This book is an excellent collection of tips and observations collected…
AI A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost OpenAI $14,000 if you actually used it to its full potential I was unaware that the breakeven utilization percentages were so low. Agentic workflows can consume tokens quickly, and the article mentions large companies…
The capabilities of LLM tools have expanded significantly over the past year. We’ve moved beyond prompt engineering (i.e., provide a prompt then get a response) to context and agentic engineering. We now have the ability to be more specific and…
AI How People Are Really Using AI in 2026 How I Deleted 95% of My Agent Skills and Got Better Results Welp, Everyone Hates AI Worried About Your AI Coding Bill This Month? Share These 6 Habits With Your Team
AI Has AI Conquered Coding? (It’s Not So Simple…) Cal Newport (computer science professor and author) discusses a recent essay by Lars Faye, Agentic Coding Is a Trap. To validate whether Lars’ statements had merit, Cal conferred with a colleague…
AI Agents Don’t Do Standups: Building the Post-Engineer Engineering Org Microsoft reports are exposing AI’s real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees Companies such as Microsoft and Uber that pushed employees to use AI…