Everyone builds with AI now, and enterprises are back in the early 2000s: Shadow IT under the desk, known to one person. The pain is not that employees build. It is that the value stays local. The answer is not a chatbot license but an operating model: a platform where solutions participate in each other, incentives for sharing, and a barrier to building low enough that the official path beats the workaround.
25 July 2026 AI · Future of WorkThe AI industry crowns a new “this is THE skill now” roughly once a month, and almost every time it is the same discovery wearing a new word. A new term lands. A manifesto follows. A post crosses several million views over a weekend, and the timeline reorganizes itself around it. By the time you […]
18 July 2026 AI · Future of WorkThe price of machine intelligence fell by roughly ninety percent - and almost nobody's bill went down. Because the unit price was never what drove the invoice: volume did, model choice did, shadow AI did, and nobody was measuring which. Why the AI cost problem is an execution problem wearing a pricing problem's clothes.
03 July 2026 AI · Future of WorkLast month I made the case that review is the new bottleneck in software engineering. Once an agent writes the code, the scarce thing is no longer typing — it is the human who can read the output, trust it, and sign for it. That was not a software story. It was the shape of […]
30 May 2026 AI · Future of WorkAI compressed the cheapest 10–20% of software work. Architecture, security, review, liability — the other eighty percent — got more important, not less. What the productivity decks leave out, and why the M&A window for software firms is open now.
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