A manager at the company started building with AI last year. He described what he wanted, iterated with the model, clicked through the result, and fed back the cases he had forgotten until the behaviour was right. An afternoon of that produced someth...

Anthropic surveyed 132 of its own engineers about Claude Code. Merged pull requests per day rose 67 percent. Daily use of the tool climbed from 28 to 59 percent. Self-reported productivity gains ran between 20 and 50 percent. But then someone checked...

A colleague recently asked me how he would run financial analysis with AI over the books of an accounting system: the ledgers, the trial balances, the P&Ls. He had three options on the table and no strong preference among them. Generate the PDF repor...

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 scattered across roughly ten training manuals, a v...

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 finished. What it did not have was a single log line. No ...

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 to a datacenter. I had watched something like fort...

When good cameras got cheap, everyone predicted the death of professional photography. The prediction landed wrong. The low end died outright: stock libraries, cheap portraits, mass-event coverage went to anyone with a phone and a free editing app. T...

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 a complete chat interface that connected to nearly...

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 enough: wall-to-wall vendors, each with a product to mov...

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 that had been making the rounds in tech publication...

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 airtight: tools like Claude Desktop are built to be acc...

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 about a new internal tool the company needed. We discu...

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 Europe's biggest AI gathering. After two days inside it, ...

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 was impressed. The CTO nodded approvingly. Budget ...

A branch came in for review with about sixty commits on it, every one authored by someone on the team. He hadn't written them. Claude Desktop had, running on his laptop, signing commits with the git identity we configured during setup. As far as the ...

Notes from an AI video project, and the release cadence that turned one team into the project's owners The most common artifact of an enterprise AI rollout is a dead feedback channel. It gets created in week one with genuine enthusiasm, collects a b...

Last weekend the season finale of House of the Dragon ran for seventy-five minutes. I decided that was long enough to build an agentic chatbot. That was my goal. And I was determined to make it. So I watched the episode on one screen with a terminal ...

A colleague forwarded me an internal slide with one number on it. Fifty-nine percent of companies are using agentic AI. And the bullet point underneath it said we were behind. What followed it was a request for budget for an agentic platform license,...