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Insights on business intelligence, legacy systems, and AI-powered development.
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Why Off-the-Shelf AI Fails Mid-Market Companies
ChatGPT knows everything—except your business. Here's why 80% of mid-market AI pilots stall, and how to close the context gap.
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The Two Things AI Assistants Keep Forgetting
AI coding assistants have no memory. We solved "what we decided" with persistent Decisions. But we forgot about "how we do things." Enter SOPs.
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Building a Content System That Works for Introverts
Most advice for "building your personal brand" assumes you enjoy self-promotion. I don't. So I built a system that extracts content from work I'm already doing.
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Every Story Dreams of Becoming a Test
Where do user stories go to die? Most teams have good capture OR good tracking. Rarely both. Here's how to close the loop.
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The Gap Between Reactive and Proactive Security
Security tools tell you when something is wrong. But they don't tell you when something is about to go wrong. That gap is where the real risk lives.
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Show, Don't Sell: The Art of the Invisible Pitch
The best way to introduce clients to something new isn't a pitch deck. It's using it in front of them until they ask about it.
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Token $0: Where AI Pricing Is Headed
AI inference costs are racing toward zero. Not because they have to — because the giants want them to. The AI is the free refill. Your data is the Whopper.
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Everyone Has GPT-5. So What?
GPT-5, Claude 4, Gemini Whatever. Your competitors have the same AI you do. The model isn't the moat. Context is.
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The Best Architecture Is the One You Can Delete
We added MinIO for "proper" file storage. Fought CORS for an hour. Then asked: do we actually need this? Sometimes the best architecture is no architecture at all.
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Death to the CMS. Long Live Raw HTML.
Your WordPress site takes 20 seconds to load while bots hammer wp-admin. Meanwhile, raw HTML loads in 50ms and has zero attack surface.
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Your Data Has Answers. You Just Can't Ask It Questions.
Most businesses are drowning in data but starving for insight. The problem isn't the data—it's the translation layer between questions and answers.
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The Problem With Dashboards
Dashboards show data. Executives need answers. There's a fundamental mismatch between what BI tools provide and what decision-makers actually need.
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Why I'm Betting on "Mini-Palantir" for Small Business
Enterprise companies have Palantir. Small businesses get spreadsheets. The gap is enormous—and AI just made it possible to fill.
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Graph Databases Are for Discovery, Not Documentation
We showed auditors a network graph. They were politely confused. Here's what we learned about when to use graphs vs. flow diagrams.
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The Fallback Trap: Why LLMs Keep Adding "Safe" Defaults That Aren't
AI assistants love adding fallbacks. Helpful, right? Not when missing secrets silently default instead of failing loudly.