by Chris Linus | Sep 2, 2026 | AI, Automation
What Actually Works in 2026 A finance team spent six months deploying a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) bot to process supplier invoices. The bot worked. It read the invoice, extracted the data, entered it into the ERP, and flagged anything it could not process for...
by Chris Linus | Aug 24, 2026 | AI, AI Development, Software Development
Picture a team of 30 developers, each using a different AI tool. Some are on Claude Code, some on Cursor, a few on GitHub Copilot, and two are running local models they set up themselves. Nobody knows what the monthly AI spend is. Nobody knows which setup produces the...
by Chris Linus | Aug 14, 2026 | Software Development
Hundreds of articles about software development trends are published every year. Most of them list the same technologies, write two paragraphs on each, and leave you no better informed than when you started. A developer who wants to stay aware of what is happening in...
by Chris Linus | Jul 24, 2026 | AI, AI Development, Software Development
The Open-Source Coding Agent Taking On Claude Code and Cursor In early 2026, Anthropic enforced its terms of service against third-party tools that were using the Claude API to build Claude Code alternatives. The developer community responded sharply. DHH “David...
by Chris Linus | Jul 23, 2026 | AI, AI Development
Before MCP existed, connecting an AI model to an external tool was a custom engineering job. Every time. Connecting Claude to your company’s GitHub repository required one integration. Connecting it to Slack required another. A database, another. A CRM, another....
