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In 1979, The Buggles warned us that technology would destroy an entire profession. They were wrong then. Here's why the same prophecy is mostly wrong about AI—and the wind farm math that proves it.
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The prophecy was wrong in 1979. It's wrong again in 2026.
When the CEO resurfaces a 3-month-old project with a 4-day deadline, AI infrastructure is the difference between weekend sacrifice and Friday afternoon completion. A George Michael-inspired guide to breaking free from the old knowledge worker contract.
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I won't let you down—AI finally keeps that promise
When AI compresses development and QA to near-zero time, Agile's two-week sprint becomes the new waterfall. A deep dive into how PMOs, ceremonies, and entire methodologies must evolve—with historical parallels to the printing press revolution.
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The constraint moved from development to decisions
Look, I didn't choose my name. But when the metaphor fits this perfectly, you build the boat. Here's why you need to find your AI learning cohort before the content tsunami makes it impossible to know where to start.
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Find your crew while you can still see the shore
Your bookmarks folder is a graveyard. Your "Watch Later" playlist is a tomb. Here's how RAGs promised salvation, MCPs delivered chaos, and a simple email alias might actually fix everything. A Hoarders-inspired intervention for your digital life.
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Forward and forget—let the AI be your cleaning crew
Most companies buy K'NEX (custom code) for enterprise scalability, then realize their team just needed classic LEGO (n8n). The goal isn't to impress builders at the convention—it's to build something your team actually uses on Tuesday afternoon when the CEO needs the report by EOD.
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Why you can't skip LEGO to build K'NEX
How The Office characters map to digital workforce automation—and why Dunder Mifflin wouldn't have needed Sabre if they'd just replaced Kevin with an AI that could do math. A tongue-in-cheek guide to understanding digital workforces through the lens of Scranton's most dysfunctional paper company.
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That's what she said about automation
Young Anakin's unfinished C-3PO perfectly illustrates the difference between MCP Resources (reading data) and MCP Tools (executing workflows). Most SaaS vendors are shipping bare-wires prototypes when you need fully-assembled protocol droids.
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Building Protocol Droid-level automation
Andy Dufresne didn't escape by chipping at the wall once. He hit the same spot, night after night, for 20 years. That's prompt reinforcement—strategic repetition that carves pathways through LLM attention mechanisms until your constraints become impossible to ignore.
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Pressure and time—that's all it takes
Natural language programming isn't magic. It's not a replacement for "real" coding. It's just programming with better instructions. Stop overcomplicating it and build something.
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Master Builders don't use manuals—they use intent
Front matter isn't just metadata—it's the creative brief that turns your text file into a campaign-ready AI skill. What Mad Men can teach us about structured data.
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Don Draper doesn't pitch without a brief. Your AI shouldn't run without front matter.
Why embedded AI in Jira, GitLab, Salesforce, Slack, Notion, and dozens of other SaaS tools is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere—and what it means for the future of enterprise software. Token economics, margin compression, and the death of SaaS as we know it.
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Dissecting the economics of embedded AI chaos