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Thinking out loud on AI, automation, and how senior practitioners actually use these tools.
80% of Companies Are Already Out of Step With the AI Act and Don't Know It
The tool worked. That was never the problem. A business manager had specced it with AI, straight from the business need, and the result did what he asked: it ran, it produced output, it looked...
Is Your Knowledge Base Actually Thinking, or Just Retrieving?
A while back I was able to build a working knowledge base in less than an hour. Fifty-five minutes to be accurate. I started by opening VS Code with Claude Code in the side panel. I had documentation...
The On-Premise LLM Lottery
I lost a full long weekend to OpenClaw once. Friday to Sunday, trying to get it running locally with an on-premise LLM on my personal machine. The machine was reasonably capable, though nothing close...
Notes from the Cyber AI Expo: the tool is not the point
I went to the Cyber / AI Expo in Munich a couple of days ago expecting a sales floor. There was one. The thing I came away thinking about, though, wasn't on any booth. The expo was predictable...
The Hidden Mental Model That Determines Whether AI Tools Help You
I built a working knowledge base while I was in a one-hour company meeting, waiting for my turn to give my briefing. Even I was surprised at how fast it came together. And it was not a mockup. It was...
Can a Non-Coder Become a Coder Just With AI?
My company decided to lean into AI — to let people who had never written code build real software with it. I thought that was the right call, and I still do. The logic behind the decision seems...
AI in the Data, Code in the Process
If you need the same answer twice, don't use AI. I learned this the hard way during a project where headquarters mandated to use OpenClaw - an AI orchestration platform and workflow automation tool...
AI Doesn't Think For You, It Thinks Like You
A few weeks ago a Business Manager handed me a 50-page AI-generated technical spec. The document was impressive. The perspective behind it was the problem. I had talked to him a few days earlier...
My two days at the Milano AI Week 2026
I went to Milano AI Week 2026 expecting demos. I came back with observations — about the technology, the people, and a few small things I didn't expect to remember. The event is positioned as...
Why Your AI Proof-of-Concept Will Never Make It to Production
The demo was flawless. The AI model processed customer support tickets in real-time, categorized them accurately, and even drafted preliminary responses that sounded human. The VP of Customer Success...