I Spent Weeks Debugging Code That Should Have Been Deleted
If your team has been stuck on the same problem for more than a few days, the fastest fix is usually to delete the work and start over, and almost nobody does it. I lost weeks to a bug that…
Tag: AI
Artificial intelligence and the working writer: what AI genuinely helps with, where it fails, what stays yours, and how a professional uses it without surrendering the voice that makes a book worth reading.
AIWe Built Fraud Detection Before Anyone Called It AI
Before you buy AI-branded anomaly detection, ask the vendor one question: what does it compute? If the answer is a baseline and a deviation from that baseline, you are buying a method that has worked since long before anyone put…
AII Hired Someone Who Had Never Written a Line of the Language
A resume and an interview tell you what someone says they can do. Neither one tells you what they can do. I found that out as a new manager with a vice president title and no interview training, on a…
AIThe Water Kept Flowing When Nobody Was Watching
One question will tell you whether your AI agent project is going to work, and it takes an afternoon to answer. The question is not what the agent can do. It is what the agent is allowed to do when…
AIThe Claude Watermark: What It Does and Why the Panic Is Wrong
Anthropic started watermarking Claude's text output on August 2, 2026, and almost every piece of coverage got the mechanism wrong. Nothing was added to your writing. What the mark does, what it proves, and why the SEO panic collapses on…
AIDo What I Did Before I Had the Tools, Then Do What I Do With Them
People are outsourcing the one thing they should never outsource, and the instruction that would fix it is one almost nobody is now in a position to follow.
AIThe Three Horizons of AI: How to Tell Hype From Value
A strategy executive sorts every technology into three horizons. The value lives in the third. Most of the AI boom is stuck in the first. Here is how to tell the difference.
AIAI Is a Writing Assistant, Not a Writer: How to Use It Right
AI is not a writer. It is a digital assistant you direct, skilled at some tasks and weak at others. Here is how a working ghostwriter uses it, where it earns its place, and the reservations that keep it on…
AIWill My Ghostwriter Secretly Use AI on My Book?
You're paying professional rates. Is the work professional, or is it ChatGPT with a markup? How to find out, what to demand in the contract, and my own policy in plain terms.
AIGhostwriting AI Books: How a Technical Ghostwriter Approaches It
AI moved from novelty to infrastructure, and the books about it have to move with it. A credible AI book in 2026 is grounded in how the technology gets deployed.
AIAI Writes About Feelings. It Does Not Write With Them.
Ask for a moving passage and you get the vocabulary of moving passages. Everything is named and nothing is at risk.
AIAI Cannot Give You the One Thing Only You Have
Ask for an illustrative example and you get a plausible composite. Plausible composites are exactly what readers stop believing.