The 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.
29 May 2026 stageMost AI sovereignty discussions focus on where workloads run and where data resides. The harder questions concern models, operations, costs, legal exposure, strategic dependency, and control. Sovereignty has eight dimensions. Most boards have addressed two.