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 a natural phase of the market. As concepts mature, feature sets begin to converge. However, capability alone does not create […]
Human-in-the-loop is often described as a requirement for AI systems. Add a human for review.Add approval steps.Add checkpoints. On paper, that makes sense. In practice, it often fails. Not because the idea is wrong. Because the experience around it is. Most systems treat human interaction as an interruption. A modal.A notification.A separate screen. Something that […]
A lot of AI interfaces today are still built around the same patterns we’ve used for years. Pages.Forms.Buttons. Even when AI is involved, the experience often comes down to entering a prompt and waiting for output. That works, but it misses something important. It assumes the user knows what to do next. In practice, that’s […]
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 AI system, would you reinvent a calculator every time you needed one?Or would you use the calculator that already exists? […]
The trophy is easy to see. The work that earned it isn’t. When you watch a championship game played in brutal conditions, the lesson is obvious. The teams that survive aren’t the flashiest. They’re the ones that can execute the fundamentals when everything else breaks down. The 2025 Patriots are a good example of a […]
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 the entire software development lifecycle. I’ve avoided leading with the name because this problem exists whether CoffeeBreak ever ships or […]
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, many teams still feel slower than they should. The Work Between the Work When teams describe their challenges, they often […]
Every year, companies make predictions about what will change in technology. Most are half right and half hype. But heading into 2026 already feels different, and not just because of shiny new tools or bigger clouds. It feels different because the way teams build software is changing at a deeper level. Over the last year, […]
Microsoft Azure has added a neat feature to App Services called MySQL In App. This feature allows you to host a MySQL instance inside of the resources of your App Service Plan you are already paying for. This is a great feature for setting up a blog or having a small database handy local to […]
