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Fundamentals Matter More in the AI Era, Not Less
Three years ago I was mostly writing code. Now I'm mostly reading it. That shift made the fundamentals more valuable, not less.
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AI Tools and the Data Boundary: What Should Never Leave the Environment
Using AI tools and understanding them are two different skills. In regulated work, the gap between those skills is where breaches happen.
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The Guardrails Around AI-Generated Code
The tooling moved. The bar didn't. AI-generated code needs the same engineering rigor as anything else, with a couple of extras bolted on.
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You're Paying for Decisions, Not Keystrokes
AI made typing faster. Typing was never the bottleneck. The job is still the job.
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AI Coding Assistants: A Security and Privacy Reality Check
AI coding assistants are wildly useful. They're also a new kind of risk surface. This post is a reality check. No doom, no hype, just how these systems actualy behave, where data can flow, and how to use them responsibly.
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