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 | 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....
by Chris Linus | Jul 18, 2026 | AI, AI Development, Software Development
A Precise Definition for 2026 In mid-2025, a GitHub README for a personal audio project uploaded by Linus Torvalds “the engineer who created the Linux kernel and Git, and who has probably reviewed more lines of code than any other person alive” contained a...
by Chris Linus | Jul 17, 2026 | AI, Artificial Intelligence
On February 27, 2024, Klarna and OpenAI held a joint press conference to announce something the tech industry had been waiting for: proof, at scale, that AI could replace a meaningful share of human customer service work. The numbers from Klarna’s first month...
