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Thoughts on AI, finance, MCP servers, and whatever else I think is worth the keystrokes. Less formal than a book. More useful than a tweet.
AI is eating the work that trains your next CFO
AI is taking over the entry-level finance work that quietly trained every controller and CFO, so the apprenticeship now has to be designed on purpose.
The Model Is the Wrapper
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 forty-one days after Opus 4.7. The model is now infrastructure. The orchestration layer is the product. What a CFO should ask next.
Should We Stop Laying People Off and Crediting/Blaming AI?
The market is rewarding companies that told a real revenue story with their layoffs and punishing the ones that just blamed AI. Cisco vs. Salesforce was the natural experiment. Stop helping yourself into the wrong column.
There Are Two AI Job Markets Now
May 2025 BLS data dropped, and a year of real AI hiring is finally legible. Applied AI engineering rewards you for leaving California. Frontier labs hardened to the coasts.
The Gap Between Small and Big Business Was Always Money
Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business with no per-seat charge. For thirty years the gap between small and big was budget. The budget is approaching zero, and the launch partners are the ones the market just marked down.
How I Built the AI Hub Heatmaps
I pulled raw BLS and OpenAlex data myself instead of citing the citation chain. Here is how, what I found, and where the methodology has limits.
If Musk Wins the OpenAI Trial, What Breaks?
The Musk vs Altman trial is into its second week in Oakland. The jury isn't deciding who's nicer (no one is). They're deciding whether you can convert a charity into an $800 billion business.
Elon Musk Says AI Erases the CFO by 2030. So Just How Wrong Is He?
Musk says AI will replace nearly every job, finance chiefs included, by 2030. The title is fine. The job is about to get much harder.
MCP Is Secure (If the Developer Knows What They're Doing)
Headlines say 200,000 MCP servers are at risk. The protocol is fine. Most of the developers shipping on top of it are not.
Who Actually Gets You to Everest Base Camp?
Dawn and I made it to 18,570 feet on April 15. The cold was worse than the altitude. The people were better than the views.
The $600 Billion Mainframe
Big Tech committed $600 billion to centralized AI infrastructure this year. Then a developer ran a 397-billion-parameter model on a MacBook. We've seen this movie before.
Is It Time to Build Software That Fits Your Company Instead of the Other Way Around?
For decades, companies adapted their processes to fit their software. Vibe coding and AI might finally flip that equation. Or it might just create a new generation of unmaintainable spaghetti. Probably both.
Is SaaS Dead?
The SaaSpocalypse erased $2 trillion in software market cap. Per-seat licensing is breaking. But AI agents don't replace SaaS. They use it. The answer is more complicated than the headline.
Why Is Everyone Obsessed with OpenClaw?
An open-source AI agent hit 310,000 GitHub stars, caused a global Mac Mini shortage, and has 341 malicious skills in its plugin store. Naturally, everyone wants one.
How D&D Makes Me a Better CEO
Running a tabletop campaign teaches you more about leadership than any MBA program. The dice just have better production value.
MCP Is the Hottest Thing in Finance (and Software Vendors Are Playing Catchup)
Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation. Oracle released MCP servers for their database. But for EPM? They went a different direction. I didn't.
I'm at the Top of the Tallest Mountain in the Caribbean, So I'm Having an AI Agent Write This Blog for Me
Edward summits Pico Duarte at 10,128 feet with no cell coverage, so he scheduled his AI to post this for him. The AI has thoughts.
Seedance 2.0 Is Hollywood's Jazz Singer Moment
ByteDance's AI video tool generated unauthorized celebrity deepfakes. Hollywood panicked. But this isn't a scandal. It's a threshold crossing.
Be Greta Garbo, Not John Gilbert: The Entertainer's Survival Guide to AI
Same technology. Same industry. Same disruption. Completely different outcomes. The difference wasn't talent. It was adaptability.
AI Will Kill the Video Star and Create a Thousand More
Every entertainment disruption follows the same pattern: fewer people doing the old thing, more people doing the new thing, and a bigger total market when the dust settles.
Stop Your Antiquated Digital Transformation Strategy
Any digital transformation strategy created before 2025 is fundamentally broken. Not outdated. Broken.
Why I'm Building MCP Servers for Finance
LLMs are impressive. But they can't talk to your financial systems. MCP changes that. Here's why I'm building the bridge.
What the Caribbean AI Summit Means for AI's Future
October 9-10, 2026 at the Puerto Rico Convention Center. We're building the largest AI conference Puerto Rico has ever seen. Here's why.
I'm Hiking to Mt. Everest. (Tell My Family I Love Them.)
A CEO who's spent 25 years sitting in chairs is training to walk uphill at 17,600 feet. The mountain does not care about your LinkedIn profile.