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AI systems beyond mere capability
April 20, 2026 APIs

Usable AI Systems Require More Than Capability

The AI space is moving quickly toward a common set of capabilities. Agent frameworks.Orchestration layers.Tool integration.Memory strategies.Security and governance considerations. These patterns are becoming widely understood. Large organizations are rapidly building toward them. This is […]

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AI Is Not Replacing SaaS
February 22, 2026 APIs

AI Is Not Replacing SaaS

There’s a growing narrative that AI will replace SaaS. If AI can build anything, why pay for software subscriptions? The logic sounds compelling. It’s also flawed. Software is a tool. If you were an advanced […]

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The Cost of Shipping ‘Almost’ Working Software
January 18, 2026 APIs

The Cost of Shipping ‘Almost’ Working Software

Before going any further, I’ll name the product I’ve been circling to and hinting at the past several posts. The system I’m building is called CoffeeBreak. It’s a human-in-the-loop AI teammate designed to assist across […]

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The Problem Most Teams Are Trying To Solve Without Naming It
January 4, 2026 APIs

The Problem Most Teams Are Trying to Solve Without Naming It

Most software teams aren’t short on tools. They have ticketing systems, CI/CD pipelines, observability dashboards, documentation platforms, chat tools, and now a growing set of AI-powered assistants layered on top of everything else. And yet, […]

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Rise Of Machine Learning
July 30, 2020 Artificial Intelligence

Rise Of Machine Learning

From the time I was born, I have been fascinated by the ideas of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. I didn’t know it at the time, but the movie Star Wars (later titled A New […]

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Data Science Is Not Magic
July 16, 2020 Big Data

Data Science Is Not Magic

Throughout my career, there have been countless times my Data Science work has been referred to as magic. I have even had colleagues that refer to parts of their own Data Science projects as magic. […]

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June 19, 2020 Azure SQL

SQL Query Divide By Zero Alternative

We’ve all been there. In a haste to write a quick SQL query that turns into a production query we take one value as a numerator and another as a denominator and put that division […]

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