AI Is Not the Plan


I keep hearing two versions of the AI story. In one, AI gives everyone a personal tutor, doctor, researcher, and software engineer. In the other, it takes our jobs, floods the internet with deception, and concentrates power in a handful of companies. Both versions miss the important part. AI is a capability. It is not … Continue reading AI Is Not the Plan →

The AI Intelligence Report (August 22–28, 2026) — The Brakes and the Race: OpenAI Slows Down as Anthropic Sprints Toward a $2 Trillion IPO


Edition: August 22–28, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes This was the week the two poles of the AI industry pulled visibly apart. OpenAI used the worst safety failure in its history to reinvent itself as the lab willing to stop, pausing its most capable unreleased model. In the same news cycle, Anthropic filed … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (August 22–28, 2026) — The Brakes and the Race: OpenAI Slows Down as Anthropic Sprints Toward a $2 Trillion IPO →

What Actually Runs When You Walk Away: KiroCrew’s Autonomy Modes, Compared


Once a KiroCrew session is running, there are four ways work can proceed without you driving every turn: Autopilot, the Task Runner, Monitor, and /goal. The docs present them as separate features, and I could not tell which one I was supposed to reach for — so I spent an afternoon working through them question … Continue reading What Actually Runs When You Walk Away: KiroCrew’s Autonomy Modes, Compared →

Bots Club, Ten Years On: The Controls That Take It Into Production


In May 2016 I wrote a short post called Bots Club. One idea, one line: bots should and can work collaboratively as we humans do. Bot to bot, no human in the channel. I built three Hubot demos for my team — bots processing a ticket, bots handling an alert, bots watching cost — and … Continue reading Bots Club, Ten Years On: The Controls That Take It Into Production →