AI & Implementation

The Next Platform Giant Is Hiding in Plain Sight

Every major era of software development has produced a defining platform company. The one that quietly became the infrastructure everyone depends on. GitHub didn’t win because git was…

Awe in an AI World

I’ve spent most of my life implementing systems at scale, watching engineering teams transform how they work (pre- and post-AI), and having thousands of conversations about what it…

Why Neuro-Symbolic AI Matters Today

For the past decade, we’ve watched deep learning transform everything from how we search the web to how we write code. Neural networks have become remarkably good at…

Putting AI to Work in Your Engineering Workflow Today

A few years ago, I wrote about the creeping danger of debt. Debt being the slow accumulation of manual processes, fragile deployments, and tribal knowledge that eventually drowns…

The Pre-AI to Post-AI Company Transition

Leaders must rethink beyond adding ML models. Transition to AI-native architectures and embrace probabilistic systems for robust outcomes in this new era of software.

AI & Implementation

The Augmented Tech Leader: How AI Can Empower Your Engineering Team

AI tools can fundamentally transform the way engineering managers lead teams by not only speed and convenience but deeper insights and impact. By embracing AI-driven solutions in code…

AI & Implementation

AI and Machine Learning: Transforming Observability

As the shift from Observability 1.0 to 2.0 unfolds, several key factors are driving this transformation, such as the increasing complexity of software systems and the need for…

AI & Implementation

Cannabis: A New Strain of E-commerce Technology – SXSW 2023

Online ordering, on-demand delivery, audience targeting, AI-assistants and digital transactions are all e-commerce capabilities that we take for granted, but without this kind of tech, today’s growing legal…

AI & Implementation

Automate or die (slowly)

The long-term overhead of not automating your operational problems will choke the growth of your product features. Technical debt is well understood to slow down software product development,…

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