The tech industry once had its roots in counterculture and bold thinking. But you wouldn't think that today. In 2025 everyone is talking about AI and Agents. I believe we will look back at the word "agentic" as being distinctly 2025. But what does that mean? What type of software are we shipping? So far I see a lack of imagination in t...

When it comes to refactoring tech debt, choosing the right time makes all the difference. As software engineers most of us do a good job at identifying code we don't like. We negotiate that work into our roadmap or sprint. Unfortunately this has become a bit of a box checking operation. Worse yet, it can become reckless if the timing i...

The message is out. We can now write convincingly great content with AI. But should we? I have to confess, I have been guilty of using ChatGPT to generate everything from my resume, profile summary and some communications at work. Around the time of ChatGPT 3.5 I can recall applying to a job and getting an immediate reply with my overl...