Posts Tagged "ai"

It was never the tools

Every few months I meet someone convinced their AI tools got worse. They didn't. The plateau everyone hits is a thinking problem wearing a tooling costume, and swapping models will never fix it.

What AI-augmented delivery looks like on a Tuesday

The demo where a sentence becomes an app is the least interesting thing AI does. The interesting part is the boring, repeatable loop that ships real software every day without a human ever losing the wheel.

Most people are using AI like a vending machine

Most people open a blank window, paste something in, and expect a miracle. When they get slop instead they decide the technology is overrated. The problem was never the model. It was the vending machine mindset.

The brief that fell apart

A client asked for an org-wide AI second brain, paid for a folder structure, and nobody had the software installed when the session began. A postmortem on the gap between what leadership imagines AI is and what they actually resource.