After twenty years of building on content management systems, I’ve stopped reaching for one first. AI coding tools now let you describe what you want and generate the system directly, without installing a platform, stacking plugins, or wrestling with themes.

Hedder recently described AI’s coming “oil shock moment.” It’s a great framing. But it misses something important. This isn’t just about scarcity. It’s about discipline. Canada’s biggest AI challenge isn’t building smarter models. It’s deploying intelligence affordably at scale. Data sovereignty and domestic capability matter, but without cost discipline they become a tax on innovation. […]

Anthropic just published what may be the largest qualitative research study in history. Not a survey. An interview study. 80,508 people. 159 countries. 70 languages. The previous record holder was the World Bank’s Voices of the Poor project at around 60,000 participants. The scale is wild. The methodology is wilder. Anthropic’s 81,000-person AI interview study […]

AI just got a lot more powerful. And a lot more dangerous. Tools like Claude’s Cowork and Computer Use don’t just answer questions anymore. They click buttons. Open files. Send emails. Run commands. They act on your behalf, on your machine, while you’re doing something else. That’s genuinely useful. It’s also a security problem most […]

I’ve been a Wealthsimple customer for over 10 years. I refer them constantly. I’ve watched them go from a scrappy robo-advisor the old guard dismissed as a toy for millennials to a full-service financial platform managing $100 billion in assets for 3 million Canadians, three years ahead of their own targets. I think they’re one […]

Vibe coding is a development approach where you run multiple AI agents simultaneously, each working on a different part of a problem, while you focus on steering, reviewing, and making architectural decisions. The productivity gains are real, but so is the cognitive intensity. This post covers what a real session looks like, how to structure […]

Choosing an AI model in 2026 is no longer just a technical decision. It’s a governance decision. The ownership structures, safety philosophies, political exposure, and moderation standards of AI providers are now material considerations, especially for organizations in finance, healthcare, education, and public service. This post makes the case for why AI model selection deserves […]

Earlier in my career, choosing a technology stack came down what you wanted to build and: what are universities teaching? If developers were learning it, you probably could hire them. Simple. Even myself, I ‘grew up’ building on Perl, PHP and the classic LAMP stack. It was practical, scrappy and wildly productive for its time. […]

I stumbled across a couple of Tiktoks talking about this new research paper on the impact of LLMs or hiring.  And after digging into it the paper (Making Talk Cheap: Generative AI and Labor Market Signaling) its clear that it just dropped a bomb on traditional hiring… and explains many of the conversations I’ve had […]

t starts with something simple, I need new shoes.  Its fall and my Hoka’s are failing fast I ask chat; Order the same running Hoka shoes I bought last spring — but get me the newer Clifton model and find the best price. Thirty minutes later, the order is done. Your AI has scanned the […]

For years, the internet’s ecommerce rule was simple: if it looks like a bot, block it. Every payment page, every login, every sales form was built to keep automation out. That made sense, bots tested stolen cards, scraped data, and caused chaos. So we fought back with CAPTCHAs, fraud filters, and endless security layers. But […]

Most AI conversations today are about content creation… writing, coding, or generating images. But the many one of the most trans-formative AI use case isn’t about making more content. It’s about unlocking the content we already have. That use case is AI-driven knowledge management or what I call agentic knowledge management that doesn’t just find […]