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What PMI’s 72% Framework Success Rate Really Measures

17 August 2026

What PMI’s 72% Framework Success Rate Really Measures

PMI’s Pulse of the Profession 2026, titled “Driving Success in Complex Projects: From Navigating Tasks to Navigating Systems,” reports that project professionals who apply a structured complexity fram…

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Five Months After the SaaSpocalypse, Software Split Into Winners and Losers

27 July 2026

Five Months After the SaaSpocalypse, Software Split Into Winners and Losers

In February, I wrote about the week ServiceNow and Microsoft both beat earnings estimates and their stocks fell anyway. The same week, the iShares Expanded Tech-Software ETF entered a bear market, its…

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Opus 5 Does Not Stop at the First Plausible Answer

25 July 2026

Opus 5 Does Not Stop at the First Plausible Answer

Anthropic gave Claude Opus 5 a drawing of a machine part and asked it to write code that would rebuild the part as a 3D model in FreeCAD. The test deliberately withheld any way for the model to view t…

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Botsitting vs Botshitting: Two New Words for the Work Around AI

24 July 2026

Botsitting vs Botshitting: Two New Words for the Work Around AI

Two words are spreading through workplace vocabulary this year, for work that almost everybody does. Both come from the same document: the Work AI Index 2026, a survey of 6,000 full-time digital worke…

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How We Brought AI In-House for a 35-Person Company

20 July 2026

How We Brought AI In-House for a 35-Person Company

Our client is a 35-person services company in the Barcelona area. When we started the engagement, the company already used AI. Employees relied on ChatGPT, Claude and other online tools to rewrite ema…

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Should You Drop Claude for Kimi K3?

18 July 2026

Should You Drop Claude for Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 arrived on July 16. One day later, semiconductor stocks extended a slide of several weeks past the bear market threshold, and K3 was named among the triggers. When a new AI model is cited as o…

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Data Center Construction Is Straining Project Capacity

18 July 2026

Data Center Construction Is Straining Project Capacity

JLL’s 2026 Construction Perspective: U.S. Mid-year Update, published July 7, measured something specific: contractors building data centers in the US carry backlogs 47% longer than contractors without…

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Extreme Heat Is a Crisis Cities Can See Coming

10 July 2026

Extreme Heat Is a Crisis Cities Can See Coming

In June 2026, Spain’s mortality monitoring system attributed just over 1,000 deaths to a single month of heat, roughly three times the average June figure of the previous eleven years. I wrote about t…

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Why Microsoft Is Putting 6,000 Engineers Inside Its Customers

9 July 2026

Why Microsoft Is Putting 6,000 Engineers Inside Its Customers

In the space of two months, Microsoft, AWS, OpenAI and Anthropic have all moved in the same direction: putting their own engineers inside customer organizations to build and run AI systems. A single l…

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