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Where AI Compression Actually Lives: A 5-Part Series
May 12 - June 9, 2026 5-Part Series

Where AI Compression Actually Lives

After a year of AI-accelerated client work, the position is sharper not softer. Real projects. Real compression rates. What actually works, what does not, and why the architect mindset matters more than ever. Greenfield, brownfield, and stack migration: three different shapes of compression.

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The Inefficiencies Were Always There. We Just Looked Away.

AI did not cause the tech layoffs. It made them impossible to keep delaying. A 30-year reflection on the structural inefficiencies the industry tolerated.

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The bubble question is the wrong question. The right question is whether we choose to see the AI that amplifies people, or the version that replaces them.

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Why web development was the only industry that asked buyers to commit before seeing the product — and how AI finally closed that gap.

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AI Is Not Killing Programming, It Is Changing the Role
AI Is Not Killing Programming, It Is Changing the Role

Why software roles and Computer Science are evolving instead of disappearing.

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Why the Tech Industry's AI Excuse Is Failing Workers and Society
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A critical look at how AI is being used to justify cost-cutting.

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We're Moving Too Fast with AI and Forgetting the People Behind the Code

The human cost of rushing AI into production.

October 20, 2025

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The Architect and The Navigator

Working with AI as an architect, not a coder.

A practitioner's account of what changes when AI joins the engineering team, and what doesn't. Thirty years of building software, distilled into the framework I now use on every engagement.

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What Are We Actually Going to Do With the Time? Book
What Are We Actually Going to Do With the Time?

AI is giving back hours that used to disappear into rework. The question is what we do with them.

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The Craft Paradox: Why the Best Developers Are the Worst at Using AI Book
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The developers most invested in their craft are often the slowest to embrace the tools that change it.

February 23, 2026
150 Endpoints in 3 Weeks: What AI-Assisted Migration Actually Looks Like Book
150 Endpoints in 3 Weeks: What AI-Assisted Migration Actually Looks Like

Real numbers from a real migration. The compression is real but lives in places the hype doesn't talk about.

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What happens when the spec is done before the build starts. The thinking compresses. The keyboard work follows.

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After years of managing instead of building, AI gave me back the joy of making things.

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Lessons from real-world ColdFusion migrations.

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