AI-washing: the gap between the sticker and the substance
Before you buy an 'AI-powered' feature, ask to see it with the AI switched off. Three vendor questions that separate real AI tools from a new sticker.
No. 02
BusinessOctober 14, 2026
Low-hire, low-fire: when standing still becomes a strategy
Small firms can't hire and won't fire, so the team you have is the team you'll grow with. That calls for designing the work, not running more job ads.
No. 03
TechnologySeptember 12, 2026
The visual turn in AI: why text-only prompting is already obsolete
OpenAI and Claude now answer with charts you can touch. The prompting skills gap was partly the text box's fault. How to judge an AI tool from now on.
No. 04
TechnologySeptember 10, 2026
Apple's Siri delay: how to tell a good wait from a stall
Apple's Siri delay is a useful test for your AI roadmap. A good wait names the failure it fixes and proves it. A stall just books another review date.
No. 05
BusinessSeptember 7, 2026
The AI perception gap: why executives see magic and workers see busywork
Executives say AI saves them hours a week; staff say it saves nothing. That gap measures how well bad news travels upward in a business, not the tool.
No. 06
BusinessSeptember 6, 2026
The end of T-shaped employees: what replaces them in an AI-first world
T-shaped hiring assumed humans did the work. Now that AI does the first pass, hire people who can frame problems, direct systems and judge the output.
No. 07
BusinessSeptember 4, 2026
The AI consulting trap: why most advisors are selling tool training when you need decision redesign
OpenAI just signed McKinsey, BCG, Accenture and Capgemini to sell its agents. Most AI consulting is training in disguise. Here is what to buy instead.
No. 08
TechnologySeptember 2, 2026
The least-privilege principle: what an AI-deleted database tells you about agent permissions
An AI coding agent deleted an entire production database in nine seconds. The failure was permissions, not a rogue AI, and least privilege is the fix.
No. 09
BusinessAugust 31, 2026
Musk's five-step algorithm for cutting bureaucracy — and what AI changes about it
Musk's five-step algorithm says automate last. With AI agents the first four steps matter even more: automation amplifies whatever process it's given.
No. 10
BusinessAugust 29, 2026
The inflated-ARR problem: why AI startup revenue metrics are a house of cards
AI startups are announcing ARR figures that just aren't revenue. How the metric got stretched, why it matters, and what to ask vendors before you buy.