A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view!
Personally, I’m trying to code like a surgeon.
A surgeon isn’t a manager, they do the actual work! But their skills and time are highly leveraged with a support team that handles prep, secondary tasks, admin. The surgeon focuses on the important stuff they are uniquely good at.
My current goal with AI coding tools is to spend 100% of my time doing stuff that matters. — Read More
Daily Archives: October 27, 2025
Thinking Like a Data Engineer
I thought becoming a data engineer meant mastering tools. Instead, it meant learning how to see. I thought the hardest part would be learning the tools — Hadoop, Spark, SQL optimization, and distributed processing. Over time, I realized the real challenge wasn’t technical. It was learning how to think.
Learning to think like a data engineer — to see patterns in chaos, to connect systems to human behavior, to balance simplicity and scale — is a slow process of unlearning, observing, and reimagining. I didn’t get there through courses or certifications. I got there through people.
Four mentors, in four different moments of my life, unknowingly gave me lessons that shaped how I approach engineering, leadership, and even life. Each taught me something not about data, but about thinking systems.
What follows isn’t a tutorial. It’s a map of how four people — and their lessons — rewired how I think. — Read More
OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool
OpenAI is working on a new tool that would generate music based on text and audio prompts, according to a report in The Information.
… One source told The Information that OpenAI is working with some students from the Juilliard School to annotate scores as a way to provide training data. — Read More
Through the Looking Glass: Stephen Klein’s Quest to Make AI Think Before It Speaks
#strategy“Agentic AI is 100% Non-Sense Designed To Scare You Into Spending Money on Consulting.”
That was the hook of a LinkedIn post designed to ruffle feathers in the AI world. It was bold, direct, and very Stephen Klein.
… While most of Silicon Valley is busy building AI companies designed to automate and replace jobs, all in the pursuit of profit, Stephen is purposely, loudly, going against the grain.
He is the founder of Curiouser.ai, a startup building the world’s first strategic AI coach, Alice, designed not to answer your questions, but to ask them.
And not just any questions, thought-provoking, Socratic, destabilizing questions.
Welcome to Alice in Wonderland. And Stephen, like a modern-day Lewis Carroll, is inviting us to question everything. — Read More
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