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21/08/ 2026
AI Is Starting to Look Like Cryptocurrency

Remember when cryptocurrency meant Bitcoin? Then Ethereum came along. Before long, there were thousands of cryptocurrencies. Some had a clear purpose. Some filled a niche. Some disappeared almost as quickly as they appeared. I think artificial intelligence is following a similar path. Not because AI is another investment craze, but because it’s no longer one thing. A few years ago, “AI” was almost a single product in most people’s minds. Today, there are dozens of major models, each with different strengths. Building a custom AI agent for a…

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14/08/ 2026
Why Most AI Assistants Fail on Company Data (And It Isn’t the AI)

Every AI demo starts with the model. Every successful AI deployment I’ve worked on eventually becomes a data project. That wasn’t obvious to me at first. Like a lot of people, I started by building a Microsoft Copilot Studio agent and pointing it at our business documentation. It didn’t take long before I had something that looked impressive. Ask it a question, get an answer. It felt like one of those moments where you think, “This is going to change how people work.” Then we let real users…

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31/07/ 2026
Don’t Buy Technology. Solve Problems.

A recent conversation on LinkedIn with Enterprise Systems & Data Architect Iosiv Popescu inspired this article. During a discussion about data migrations, he made an observation that stayed with me long after the conversation ended: “The business meaning never changed; only the source did.” The more I thought about that statement, the more I realized it applies to far more than data architecture. It applies to the way many organizations approach technology itself. For years, I’ve watched companies begin major initiatives by talking almost exclusively about software. The…

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17/07/ 2026
The 95-Minute Notebook

This article was originally published on LinkedIn and is archived here on texlytics.com. The symptom Our Bronze ingestion notebook on Microsoft Fabric had a runtime problem. The notebook pulls incremental changes from CMiC’s REST APIs into a lakehouse on a 15-minute cadence — dozens of endpoints, all driven from a single control table. The kind of thing that should finish in a few minutes. It was taking 95. Here’s what made it interesting: the Python wasn’t slow. The API calls came back quickly. The filtering and dedupe logic…

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03/07/ 2026
We spent a year building a data platform. Here’s what AI can finally do with it.

This article was originally published on LinkedIn and is archived here on texlytics.com. Most construction firms that say they want “AI” don’t have data that AI can use. The accounting system doesn’t talk to the project management tool, half the operational truth lives in spreadsheets, and the same vendor is spelled three ways across three systems. Point the fanciest model on the market at that, and it will confidently produce nonsense — because it’s learning from a mess. So before any of what follows, the boring part. We…

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