Running an offsite is one of those things that sounds straightforward until you actually try to do it. Then you realize it’s more like attempting to teach a cat how to swim.. like, it’s possible, but the trial and error…
The Rise of Boring Scams: AI is Killing the Nigerian Prince
You remember the good old days, right? When email scams were delightfully absurd. The kind of nonsense you’d read aloud to your coworkers for a laugh. “A Nigerian prince wants to send me $42 million?” Fantastic! I’ve always wanted to…
All Working Software Is Legacy Software
Let’s start with a universal truth: every developer, when encountering a piece of existing code, immediately thinks, “Who wrote this trash?” And if the answer is “me,” the follow-up is “Well, golly-damn, how I’ve grown since then.” It’s instinct. Like…
The Leadership Lessons of a Felt Frog: Kermit and the Power of Gentle Command
The shelves of business and leadership literature are filled with frameworks, philosophies, and battle-tested memoirs. From Drucker to Lencioni, from fighter pilots to former generals, there’s no shortage of advice on how to be effective, decisive, and successful. But this…
The State of AI-Coded Software, May 2025
I’ll probably regret writing this. At the very least, I’ll cringe reading it in a few months. But here we are. Lately, we’ve been getting a wave of client requests asking us to evaluate software they built using AI tools….
Is Anyone Working on Agentic Authentication?
Everyone is building AI-powered tools, even people who shouldn’t be. Agents seem to be the next obvious (and big?) step. But these little bots need a secure way to act on behalf of users without causing chaos. Richard Dulude at…