I’ve wanted a 3D printer for years. There is something about the idea of taking an object that exists only in my imagination, designing it on a computer, pressing a button, and watching it become a physical thing that I find absolutely fascinating. It feels like something out of science fiction. The kind of technology I used to imagine having when I was a kid. But for years, two things kept me away: the price and the amount of fiddling involved. ...
From CLS to Agentic AI I was born in 1977, right at the intersection of two worlds. Old enough to remember analog. Young enough to grow with digital. My first program was written on a Dragon 32, a home computer with 32 kilobytes of RAM and a keyboard that felt like it came from a typewriter factory. My oldest brother brought it home one afternoon, and it was the first computer I ever saw in real life. ...
A Fool with a Tool Long ago, I met a senior executive from NBC who liked to say: “A fool with a tool is still a fool.” It was true then, when the “tools” were spreadsheets, automation scripts, or a shiny new CRM. It’s even truer today, when the tools in question are large language models and autonomous agents. Over the past year, AI has moved from novelty to necessity. The experiments are over; the adoption curve has turned vertical. ...