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The Electric Middle Manager: What Nikola Tesla Teaches Us About Corporate America
If you think your job is a thankless grind, meet Nikola Tesla I've had bosses who took credit for my work. I've had a bonus disappear into thin air right after I earned it. I've watched someone else get the promotion off an idea I built the deck for.
Platform Thinking
Why Platform Thinking Needs Enterprise Architecture
Why Platform Thinking Needs Enterprise Architecture And how strong architectural foundations prepare an organization for agentic AI Every platform team I've been part of eventually runs into the same wall. The roadmap is clear, the backlog is prioritized, the team is capable, and the platform still can't move fast without breaking something two teams over. Almost every time, the real cause isn't the roadmap.
Artificial Intelligence
The Rise of Agentic Software Development Platforms
The software development landscape is going through a real architectural shift this year. The industry is moving past simple AI code completion tools, the "copilots", and converging on something bigger: autonomous "agentic" platforms that don't just suggest code, they run the whole loop themselves. As this scales, engineering workflows, cost structures, and enterprise risk are all moving with it.
Artificial Intelligence
Agentic Homes: A Frictionless Relief or a Walled Garden Nightmare?
It has been more than 50 years since the TV remote was invented, and most of us still cannot turn on the television without hunting under three couch cushions for it. You were more successful finding gold fish, Cheetos and a mystery item that may have one point been a pb&j but now just a blob… Now add a streaming box, a soundbar, and a smart light strip that only syncs through its own app, and "watch a movie" has quietly become a systems integration project. That, in miniature, is the agentic home problem.
AI or ML
Output, Inference, and Prediction: Why Engineers Can't Just Say "The Answer"
I have ADHD, so bear with me, this is going to wander through a kitchen before it gets back to a server rack. Developers actually use "output" and "prediction" interchangeably all the time. You'll hear someone ask "what was the model's output?