For Practitioners

March 24, 2026 · Anthony Franco

AI won't replace you. It will replace the parts of your job you spend 80% of your day doing. We are moving from an economy of execution to an economy of direction, and that changes the skill stack entirely.

March 10, 2026 · Anthony Franco

Every company has a culture. The question isn't whether you'll have one. It's whether you'll create it intentionally or let it emerge by accident. Culture isn't perks. It's whether people feel safe disagreeing with you.

February 24, 2026 · Anthony Franco

The hype cycle is breaking. AI isn't failing because the technology is bad. It's failing because we're managing probabilistic tools with deterministic playbooks. The fix isn't better prompts. It's better principles.

January 27, 2026 · Anthony Franco

If we're in a simulation, some of us are main characters and some are background players with three lines of dialogue. So I decided to tackle the most important philosophical question of our time: How do you know if you're a Non-Player Character in your own life?

January 13, 2026 · Anthony Franco

AI doesn't remove human error. It scales it. When the bot screws up, who is responsible? Most organizations create an accountability vacuum where everyone is involved and no one is accountable.

December 30, 2025 · Anthony Franco

Calling yourself "in AI" because you use ChatGPT is like saying you're in the culinary arts because you know how to operate a microwave. There are three tiers of AI adoption, and confusing them is dangerous.

December 16, 2025 · Anthony Franco

Last year, OpenAI spent $6.5 billion to acquire a design company. Not a model company. Not a chip company. A design company. If the people who built the model think design is the bottleneck, what does that tell you about your own implementation?

December 2, 2025 · Anthony Franco

80% of AI projects never make it past the pilot phase. The reason isn't bad technology. It's automating broken processes. If you automate a bad process, you just scale the chaos.