Category: AI
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Reflections in the Machine – Part 3: The Day the Mirror Stops Reflecting
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In the first essay in this series, I suggested that modern AI behaves a lot like a mirror. The more context you provide, the more clearly it reflects patterns in your thinking. In the second essay, we pushed that idea further. The mirror isn’t just reflecting anymore. It’s participating in the conversation. But there’s a…
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Reflections in the Machine – Part 2: When the Mirror Starts Talking Back
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In the first essay in this series, I suggested that modern AI behaves a lot like a mirror. The more context you provide, the more clearly it reflects patterns in your thinking back to you. That alone is interesting. But something else is starting to happen. The mirror is beginning to talk back. Modern AI…
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An Afternoon With AI: How I Rebuilt My Author Platform Without Touching a Keyboard
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in AII spent most of last Friday in a single conversation with an AI. Not chatting. Working. By the time the session ended, I had rewritten my About Me page, drafted and scheduled ten blog posts across two complete series, built a social card generator with my headshot baked in, diagnosed a broken WordPress cron system…
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Reflections in the Machine – Part 1: The Mirror
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Spend enough time interacting with modern AI systems and something interesting starts to happen. At first it feels like software. A tool. Another interface. But the more context you provide, the more the responses start to align with the way you think. The system begins organizing your ideas, reflecting patterns, and presenting them back in…
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Your Mac Mini AI Lab Is Awesome. It’s Also Going to Be Obsolete.
When I built my Mac Mini AI lab, it felt like 1995 again. Local models. Ollama. VMs in Parallels. OpenClaw agents. Telegram bots. New Relic instrumentation feeding telemetry into reasoning loops. It was fun. It was technical. It scratched that engineer itch that says: “I want to understand what’s happening under the hood.” And I…
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The Mac Mini AI Lab: Reclaiming the Edge in My Consulting Transition
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in AISomething interesting has been happening in the AI community. Developers, hobbyists, and independent builders have quietly been buying up Apple Mac mini machines — not for traditional desktop use, but as compact AI servers. Why? Because the modern Mac Mini — especially Apple Silicon models — hits a rare balance: In an era dominated by…
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The Society of Mind: How Marvin Minsky Shaped My Systems Thinking (and My Perspective on AI)
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in AII first read The Society of Mind in the early 1990s — a few years after it was published — long before AI became mainstream and decades before GPUs, large language models, or agentic systems entered everyday engineering conversations. Written by Marvin Minsky, the book wasn’t a how-to guide or technical manual. It was something…
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AI Isn’t Just for Enterprises Anymore
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in AIHow Everyday People and Small Businesses Can Use AI Right Now (Without Breaking the Bank) I spend a lot of time writing about AI in large organizations — platform engineering, automation, observability, and digital transformation. But here’s the thing most people don’t realize: The same AI capabilities powering billion-dollar companies are already available to everyday…
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From Chaos to Context: AI-Driven Major Incident Response
In Part 1, we covered what actually fails during major incidents: That’s the baseline reality in most enterprises today. This article is about what comes next. Not “AI for dashboards.” Not chatbots bolted onto ticketing systems. I’m talking about AI as the operational control plane — where observability, CMDB, ITSM, and ownership models finally converge…
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From Internal Developer Platforms to AI-Native Control Planes
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in AIWhy IDPs aren’t portals — they’re standardized access to reality. Over the last few articles, I’ve been exploring how AI, observability, and SRE are converging into something bigger than any single tool: a closed-loop engineering system where intent, execution, and experience are continuously connected. That naturally leads to Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). But here’s the…