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Will AI replace developers?
AI won’t replace developers, but it changes how they work. Two real examples show frontier models like Claude confidently defending wrong logic until pushed by an engineer who knew better. The lesson: lean into AI to supercharge your skills, but stay sharp. Complacency is the real risk, not AI itself.
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AI Won’t Fix Your Mess, It Will Just Expose It
Businesses run on undocumented chaos held together by people like Grace, who fix problems nobody sees. Leaders think AI can fix messy workflows overnight. It can’t. AI needs the same structure, training, and clear objectives any employee needs. Start small, target real annoyances, and support Grace instead of replacing her.
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No, You May Not Record This Meeting
AI note takers have gone from polite request to default surveillance in every meeting, date, and family dinner. They kill humor, reward performance over substance, and turn every interaction into a gamified score. The tech isn’t the problem. The loss of context and consent is. Time to resist.
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Podcast Episode: Prompting, AI, And Business Chaos
An experiment of an AI generated podcast from a series of previously published articles. You decide.
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Simulating Corporate Chaos: Your Own Truman Show
Setup your own Truman Show, with personality types, and then sit back and watch them interact in a virtual Slack channel. Each one is run by its own AI agent, learning and interacting.
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Behind the Prompt Curtain
Every AI prompt is a stateless HTTP request. No memory, no magic. Just a JSON array of messages you build and send yourself. Once you see what is actually going over the wire, adding AI to your product stops being intimidating. The technical barrier is gone. The only question left is whether you should.
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AI is Making Us Artificially Intelligent
We had KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid. A principle built to stop us drowning each other in noise. AI has replaced it with BOVINE. Being Overly Verbose In Needless Expositions. We are producing more content than ever, reading less of it, and proudly signing our names to work we never actually did.
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It’s Just a Series of Prompts
Everyone is talking about agent frameworks like they require a PhD and a six-figure implementation budget. They do not. At the core, it is a text file with instructions, a script that does one job, and a place to store state. That is it. You are already closer to being an agent developer than anyone is telling you.
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Diligence in the AI Era
AI has transformed technical diligence. What took weeks of painful access negotiations and siloed tooling now takes days. But a faster, broader report still lands on a desk, and someone experienced still has to decide what it means. The tools have changed. That part hasn’t.
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Ride of a life time
Dreaming opens up the doors to possibilities. If you don’t dream then you already close off paths not travelled. I dared to dream and I am about to embark on something even I couldn’t have imagined.
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Lack of transparency in AI pricing
AI users face challenges with unclear usage limits and billing practices, often leading to unexpected charges. Token-based pricing lacks transparency, complicating cost management. While some providers are introducing controls to mitigate expenses, there’s a need for clearer metrics akin to traditional utilities, allowing users to predict costs and optimize usage effectively.
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Let me introduce Alan 0.9
Let me introduce you to my AI clone – Alan 0.9. He looks the same, and even sounds roughly the same. This is going to get very weird.
the legend that is, Alan Williamson
For over 24 years, I’ve shared my thoughts here on this blog whenever the muse strikes.
It’s unpredictable, honest, unedited, and occasionally witty. I’m living the best years of my life, working harder than ever, learning each day and enjoying every second.
