Automation

Your Company Isn’t “Going All-In On AI.” It’s Firing People And Using A Press Release To Cover It Up.

Companies aren’t “going all-in on AI.” They’re firing people and using press releases to cover it up. The real value of AI isn’t automation β€” it’s better decision-making. But most executives would rather cut headcount than rethink how their organization actually works. If your company’s AI strategy starts with layoffs, it doesn’t have a strategy. It has a leadership problem.

Robots in Love, Humans in Spreadsheets: The AI Paradox Nobody’s Talking About

The same AI technology that helps you close a funding round is now being trained to fall in love. This isn’t a coincidenceβ€”it’s a reflection of our deepest trade-off: we are building machines to feel the things we no longer have time for, because we are too busy using other machines to optimize our financial survival. The result is a paradox that’s reshaping everything from venture capital to human connection.

AI Researchers Are No Longer the Smartest People in the Room. Machines Are.

Fable’s CIFAR speedrun proves that human intuition is no longer an advantage in AI researchβ€”it’s a bottleneck. By automating the entire research loop, they turned a craft into a brute-force compute problem. The most dangerous idea: you’re not being replaced by smarter AI, but by systems that fail faster and cheaper than you can think.

The Coders Won’t Survive the AI Age. These People Will.

Everyone thinks the AI age rewards technical skills. It doesn’t. The people who will thrive aren’t the ones who can out-compute machines β€” they’re the ones who double down on what machines can’t do: empathy, adaptability, narrative craft. The ‘soft’ skills we spent two decades devaluing are about to become the most expensive skills on earth.

Stop Storing State. Start Storing Stories.

Your database is an amnesiac. Every UPDATE burns the past, leaving you to debug production fires with no memory of what started them. Event sourcing fixes this β€” not by storing state, but by storing every decision that led to it. It’s not a database pattern. It’s a time machine that makes your system’s history queryable, debuggable, and auditable. The trade-off is real: eventual consistency, snapshot management, schema evolution. But for systems where trust, compliance, or temporal reasoning matter, it’s not optional.

Firefox’s 2-Week Release Cycle: You Think It’s About Speed. It’s Actually About Survival.

Mozilla’s shift to a 2-week Firefox release cadence isn’t about faster features β€” it’s a survival gamble against Chrome. The real risk isn’t technical but organizational: a small team and volunteers must match Google’s machine. Expect instability, but understand the desperate love behind it.

I Asked 4 AIs to Price SEO Tools. They All Failed Miserably.

I tested four major AI models on SEO tool pricing, and they all failed miserably. The AI didn’t just hallucinate pricesβ€”it perfectly replicated the chaotic, opaque pricing blind spots of the SEO industry itself. Here’s why you should stop trusting AI for market research.