Tag: values
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The Agile Manifesto in the Age of Gen AI
Is the Agile Manifesto Ready for an Upgrade? It has been quite a break. Regularly posting on LinkedIn provided me an opportunity to find a theme that would resonate in the rapidly changing world of product development. While my efforts to archive those posts were lackluster, a calculated choice I own, I now have a…
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Building vs. Buying: The Moment Your Old Identity Breaks and a New One Shows Up
I saw a line in a LinkedIn thread recently that named this better than most research papers have: “The real fear isn’t replacement; it’s decoupling, losing the thread between what we build and why it works”. That’s the third fault line, and I think it’s the deepest one, because it doesn’t show up as a…
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The Skill You Mastered Was Never the Whole Point
I had a coaching conversation recently that stuck with me. A developer, ten-plus years in, told me something to the effect that he could write the same function in about the same time as the AI now, and he said it like a confession, not a brag. That’s the second fault line in this series,…
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You Lost Your Title, Now What?
There’s a moment I keep seeing in coaching sessions, and it doesn’t show up in a retro or a 1:1 agenda. It shows up in a pause. Someone with “Senior” or “Lead” or “Principal” in front of their name goes quiet after I ask what they actually did that week, because the honest answer is…
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Why I Pivoted My YouTube Channel in 2026: Data, Tech Experiments, and Unexpected Growth
There are things that surprise me. Being an outlier is one of them. Earlier this year, 2026, I decided to focus on growing my YouTube presence by sharing tech experiments. That was on top of many videos that I recorded about my leadership journey and thoughts on product development. What I wasn’t prepared for was…
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A Simple Formula for GenAI: Model + Harness = Deployable Agent
Part of my continuous learning approach is to understand what the leading (sometimes bleeding) edge approaches are to using gen AI effectively for business. We’ve seen prompt engineering, context engineering, agents, workflows, and many other terms that have been adapted to provide understanding about what could be done with gen AI. A more recently adapted…
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Learning AI Without Pretending to Be an Expert
Most days, I am treading water. The AI tooling landscape changes daily, and I coach software development teams for a living. That means the background noise is a professional risk, not just a distraction. Here’s how I stay on the leading edge without falling off: To some people, I probably look obsessive about generative AI…
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The 15-Day AI Recall: How One Friday Order Exposed Who Really Runs Your Tools
Reality vs. Perception: What I Learned from the Fable 5 Saga Imagine waking up one Monday morning, opening your laptop, and discovering that your favorite productivity tool — the one you’d integrated into your team’s workflow, the one you’d paid for, the one you’d just started to figure out — was simply gone. No error…
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Back Online, Downgraded: How Fable 5 Returned Under New Rules
Fable 5 Returned: Six Days In, Not Fourteen The biggest reveal from this morning’s sources: Fable 5 was quietly restored on June 18, on Day 6 of the shutdown, following negotiations between Anthropic and White House officials. That means the model has actually been back online for six days, and many users may not have…
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Trump Says It’s Not a Threat Anymore. So What Happens to Fable 5 Now?
The Biggest Signal Yet: Trump Softened at the G7 The headline this week comes straight from the top. During the G7 summit, President Trump was asked about the Anthropic situation and said — on the record — that he “no longer considers the company a national security threat,” adding “not, but week ago maybe”. That’s…