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Professional Development – 2026 – Week 30
AI Researchers studied AI layoffs. Here’s their warning. The problem is that companies operate in a competitive environment. Your competitors are using AI to cut costs, so your company is forced to do the same (i.e., trapped). Doing so has…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 29
Software Development The complete AI Coding workflow: learn mattpocock/skills in 17 minutes Matt Pocock went over how to install and configure his set of popular skills. He also walked through an end-to-end example. The sequence is grill-with-docs, to-spec, to-tickets, implement,…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 28
AI NDC Copenhagen Keynote: After the AI Hype –What’s Real, and What’s Next I remember listening to Richard Campbell on .NET Rocks!, and he has a fantastic mind. He’s been through many of the “revolutions” in tech (the Internet, mobile,…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 27
AI Building Great Agent Skills: The Missing Manual Why AI Has Failed to Take Your Job Since 1976 There have been many advancements in machine learning (e.g., Mycin, Watson, LLMs) that ultimately fail(ed) to deliver a radical change. This video…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 26
AI Implement harness engineering to ensure high-quality, sustainable software development. The AI Skills Nobody is Teaching (And Everyone Needs) | AI Expert Ethan Mollick Consulting The Secrets of Consulting This book is an excellent collection of tips and observations collected…
Professional Development – 2026 – Weeks 24 & 25
AI A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost OpenAI $14,000 if you actually used it to its full potential I was unaware that the breakeven utilization percentages were so low. Agentic workflows can consume tokens quickly, and the article mentions large companies…
Managing Complexity When Building AI-Powered Systems
The capabilities of LLM tools have expanded significantly over the past year. We’ve moved beyond prompt engineering (i.e., provide a prompt then get a response) to context and agentic engineering. We now have the ability to be more specific and…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 23
AI How People Are Really Using AI in 2026 How I Deleted 95% of My Agent Skills and Got Better Results Welp, Everyone Hates AI Worried About Your AI Coding Bill This Month? Share These 6 Habits With Your Team
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 22
AI Has AI Conquered Coding? (It’s Not So Simple…) Cal Newport (computer science professor and author) discusses a recent essay by Lars Faye, Agentic Coding Is a Trap. To validate whether Lars’ statements had merit, Cal conferred with a colleague…