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Are we in an AI bubble or an AI revolution?

April 05, 2026  3 minute read  

I read a lot on the Internet from the prognosticators about whether AI is terrible or awesome - are we in a bubble or a revolution in the way we work? Why not both? Perhaps the best way to explain this is by - as everyone else is - drawing parallels to the other bubble / revolution that we all experienced - the dot-com crash of 2000. The year 2000 represents the moment where the financial excitement (the bubble) outpaced the actual infrastructure (the revolution). The Bubble: Financial ...

The AI Maturity Model

April 03, 2026  7 minute read  

I have a confession to make. I don’t write code any more, and I haven’t written any code since August of last year. I wrote a little about my journey to AI nirvana (see my posts on AI Editors, OSS AI Editors, or SpecKit). I’m guessing that everyone goes through the same journey - from distrusting that AI will do a good job to using AI for everything. The good news is that software development has not really changed. The job was never about the code, even though the code was the tangible ...

Using SpecKit with multiple AI agents

December 06, 2025  8 minute read  

I wanted to put down my workflow and all the details for using SpecKit using a superior reasoning and planning LLM (like Opus 4.5 via Claude Code, or Gemini 3 via the Gemini CLI) for the initial phases, but switching to an agentic AI IDE like Cursor or GitHub Copilot in VS Code for the final coding phases. I’m using Git and the GitHub CLI for repository actions. This workflow does not include “authenticating”. You still need to configure and log in to each tool separately. They’ll general...

AI Assisted Editors: A Comparison (Part 2)

August 01, 2025  10 minute read  

In my last article, I provided a break down of the three commercial AI assisted editors that I use on a regular basis. However, not everyone can afford a monthly subscription ($20/month is the standard), or maybe you prefer different models or a more local development environment. There are still options that you can use to get AI assisted editing yet avoid the subscription charge. What is an AI Assisted Editor? As a developer, you open up an editor and write code. AI Assisted editors ...

AI Assisted Editors: A Comparison (Part 1)

August 01, 2025  13 minute read  

You can’t go a lap about development these days without bumping into AI assisted editors. Most of the AI tooling companies I see are heavily investing in Visual Studio Code based editors, but you have some others out there as well. I’m going to break the comparison I’m doing into three articles - one on the paid offerings I’ve personally used, one on the “free” offerings I’ve used, and one on the quirks of the LLMs that are in common use. Hopefully, by the end of this, you’ll understand th...