OpenAI is partnering with Accenture, McKinsey, and the rest of the Big Four. Anthropic is building its own embedded implementation teams, more like Palantir than Microsoft. Both companies have realized AI adoption is an implementation problem, not a software licensing one. The value is moving up the stack toward integration, governance, workflow redesign, and AI […]
AI, Havel, and ‘AI for All’: Taking Back Some Control
Václav Havel argued that systems persist because people participate in them, often without realizing it. Applied to AI, we are quietly adopting tools we do not control, accepting outputs we cannot explain, and wrapping governance around black boxes. “AI for All” only matters if it means participation, not just access. Canada’s real opportunity isn’t to […]
Mythos Isn’t About Hacking. It’s About Systems.
“Mythos” isn’t a confirmed Anthropic model. It’s shorthand for a real shift: a class of Claude-level models that suddenly got exceptionally good at analyzing complex systems. Security headlines caught the wave first because vulnerabilities are system reasoning problems, but the real story extends to compliance, fraud, supply chains, and any dependency-driven domain. Once a machine […]
AI Is the New Geopolitical Battleground, and We’re Already in It
AI has become a geopolitical narrative battleground, with dark-money campaigns paying influencers thousands per video to shape public perception of a US-China AI Cold War. The deeper problem isn’t foreign influence in any single model. It’s opacity across every AI system, and the fact that compute access, not rhetoric, is the real power layer. Countries […]
Canada’s AI Compute Landscape: What I Found When I Tried to Build on It
Canada committed roughly $890M to AI supercomputing infrastructure, but builders still hit fragmented vendors, opaque pricing, and an unresolved trade-off: the most usable compute in Canada is the least sovereign, and the most sovereign is the least usable. Presence is not sovereignty. Closing that gap will take more than infrastructure spending. It needs transparent pricing, […]
The Next Frontier in AI: Token Efficiency
The AI conversation has been about capability for two years. Now a harder constraint is emerging: token efficiency. As agentic workflows replace simple chat interactions, token usage compounds from single prompts into thousands of tool calls and reasoning steps, breaking the economics of unlimited subscription pricing. The companies that win the next phase of AI […]
From AI Chat to AI That Acts: Why the Next Wave Will Feel Very Different
AI is crossing a critical line: from systems that talk to systems that act. Agentic AI can navigate tools, access data, trigger workflows, and make decisions across connected systems, all without waiting for a human to click the buttons. That shift changes the game from intelligence to control. The organizations that win next will not […]
Building an AI-Operated EV Intelligence Platform for Canada
Most Canadian EV information is scattered across news sites, manufacturer pages, and government rebate tables, with no single source tracking what actually changes about a specific vehicle. EVD2.ca is an AI-operated intelligence platform that monitors Canada’s EV market in real time, treating each vehicle as a living entity rather than a content topic. This post […]
Your AI Needs Performance Reviews Too
Most people use AI like a vending machine: prompt, response, move on. But high-quality work comes from review cycles. AI is unusually good at critiquing its own output, but only if you explicitly ask. The real leverage comes from closing the loop: run a structured review, extract improvements, update your instructions and memory, and add […]
I don’t need a CMS anymore (And Soon Neither will you)
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.
🇨🇦 Canada’s AI Problem Isn’t Intelligence. It’s Cost.
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. […]
What 81,000 People Told AI About AI
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 […]
Your Computer, Your Agent, Your Risk?
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 […]
The Resume Is a Lie. Wealthsimple Just Proved It.
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 Amazing. It’s Also A Lot.
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 […]
