Writing
Insights on the Laravel AI SDK, AI agents, executive leadership, technical excellence, and software development.
Technical excellence
WebMCP lets AI agents use your website through structured tools instead of clicks. Here is what it is, how it differs from MCP, and what to do now that Shopify has switched it on for checkout.
Ai innovation
AI agents are breaking the link between software users and software revenue. This piece looks at what Gartner, Deloitte and others actually say about SaaS spending, which products look exposed, which defenses hold up, and what founders and buyers can do now.
Ai innovation
Grok Bot works for Soft Pyramid operators when each Bot owns a repeatable outcome, not a pile of open questions. Start with read-and-prepare work, review the result, then add approved actions. Eight starter roles show how.
Technical excellence
n8n demos look clean; production fails on empty payloads, credential drift, and silent retries. This case study walks through anonymized US service-firm patterns — enrichment, inbox triage, and meeting handoffs — and the operating rules that keep workflows alive after go-live.
Technical excellence
Production AI systems need more than a working demo: auth, queues, rollback, and an owner at 2am. This article walks through what demos omit, what research says about pilot failure, and how Soft Pyramid judgment helps US SMBs ship systems that hold up.
Ai innovation
Humans have built machines stronger and faster than people — but not more generally intelligent. This article examines why that gap matters for prediction and control, what lab evidence actually shows, and how SME operators should set autonomy budgets without hype or panic.
Ai innovation
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s September 2026 essay argues frontier labs should pace capabilities so safety work can keep up, citing recursive self-improvement and the OpenAI-Hugging Face agent incident. This article unpacks the three-step plan and what SME operators should take from it without treating a CEO essay as settled policy.
Ai innovation
This week’s AI discourse mixes extinction probabilities from Anthropic-adjacent researchers with familiar white-collar job panic. This article separates personal p(doom) claims from labor evidence, then outlines what SME operators should harden, redesign, and build anyway.
Ai innovation
GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's September 2026 frontier model for hard end-to-end work across coding, computer use, and research. This article unpacks the announcement, ChatGPT and API rollout, pricing and safety constraints, and what engineering leaders should do next.
Ai innovation
I completed Harvard Data Science Review's Agentic AI intensive in April 2026. Here is what the A.G.E.N.T. framework taught me — and the free playbook I published for delivery teams.
Ai innovation
What Cursor's field team teaches about moving from Tab completion to async cloud agents — and the platform pieces that help you climb the curve.
Ai innovation
What the FDE role actually is, why enterprise AI hiring exploded in 2026, and what it means if you run a software team, agency, or client delivery shop.
AI Artisan