Insights
Writings, Musings, Ponderings, and Other (th)ings ... looking up at the world around us.
AI Is an Amplifier
AI amplifies whatever you point it at. Successful AI deployment requires knowing what you're amplifying before you commit, with three durable questions that make that assessment concrete and actionable.
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AI Skills: Teach AI to Work Your Way
Stop re-explaining your standards every AI session. Skills encode your workflows into something reusable, consistent, and yours. Memory helps, but it is not a substitute for deliberate workflow design.
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AI Harnesses: Making AI Agents Safer
Harnesses are the security monitors of the AI world. Understanding how they enforce permissions, sandbox execution, gate tool access, and control what is returned is the key to safe AI deployment.
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RAG Is Fixing AI's Trust Problem
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) connects AI models to trusted data sources at query time, reducing hallucinations by up to 71% and driving a market projected to reach $9.86 billion by 2030.
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Before There Was ChatGPT...
November 2022 was generative AI's iPhone moment. But what was going on before ChatGPT; AI didn't just come out of nowhere. Learn more about how we got there and where we might be going.
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The Tools Change. The Mission Doesn't.
Nearly 30 years of technology change has reinforced one truth: understanding the need, applying experience, and executing is what creates client advantage. The tools evolve, but the need to navigate them confidently doesn't.
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