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    • BOOK-E 2.0: Rebuilding My Robot Gambler

      Leave the House Out of It is the original project that I started building decades ago to keep my hands dirty on coding, even ...
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    • Vibe Coding Update: It’s Gotten a Lot Better, The Ongoing Story of LTHOI.com

      Last August I wrote that vibe coding is SOOO rad because I had spent about 20 hours modernizing LTHOI.com before football season. That was the whole ...
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    • One Prompt, Fifteen Tickets: Notes From an AI Agent That Shipped a Whole Backlog

      Note from Jonathan (the Human): Everything after this note (and the title) were written entirely by Claude Code immediately after it finished processing the ...
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    • My Comites: Sam the Sommelier

      This is one of a series of posts introducing the agents of comites.ai — the personal AI specialists I talk to like colleagues, built ...
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    • My Comites: Nora the Nutritionist

      This is one of a series of posts introducing the agents of comites.ai — the personal AI specialists I talk to like colleagues, built ...
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    • Agentic Dev Management at Scale and for a team of 0.1 FTE

      AI assisted coding doesn’t just change how we develop software. It, necessarily, changes how we have to manage software development; daily standups where the ...
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    • Vibe Coding Update: Not Your Grandfather’s Vibe Coding

      A while back I wrote a series of blog posts about my first real experiences with AI-assisted coding — what I called “Vibe Coding ...
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    • A screenshot of interacting with the Growth Mindset Coach in Slack

      Growth Mindset Coach: Communicating Through Slack

      I’ve done a whole series now on creating my AI Growth Mindset Coach: In this post I’m going to describe the effort to connect ...
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    • Robot Growth Coach

      Growth Mindset Coach: The ADK Version

      In this post I’m going to describe the process I went through to create a growth mindset coach using Google’s ADK.  For more on ...
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    • Growth Mindset Coach: A Low Code Version

      In this post I’m going to describe how I created a “growth mindset coach” using the platform n8n.io.  For more on why I’m doing ...
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    • The Growth Coach

      Growth Mindset Coach: The Idea in Principle

      As I’ve documented on this blog many times, I like to learn by doing.  I’m not as technical at work as I used to ...
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    • Vibe Coding Reflections: Agent Armies Are the New Accelerators (and Script Libraries)

      This is part of a series of blog posts that stemmed from my first experiences with “vibe coding”.  For more on what I did ...
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    • Vibe Coding Reflections: This Won’t Kill Coding

      There has been lots of speculation about AI causing a reduction in the number of Software Development jobs. I don't see it in ...
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    • Vibe Coding Reflections: Modernizing the Way We Modernize

      This is part of a series of blog posts that stemmed from my first experiences with “vibe coding”.  For more on what I did ...
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    • Vibe Coding Reflections: The Rise of the Full Scope Developer

      I spent the first six posts of this series talking about the strengths and limitations of agentic AI for software development. In the ...
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    • Vibe Coding Reflections: Claude is Trapped in my IDE!

      This is part of a series of blog posts that stemmed from my first experiences with “vibe coding”.  For more on what I did ...
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    • Vibe Coding Reflections: Legacy Code is Still Hard To Figure Out

      This is part of a series of blog posts that stemmed from my first experiences with “vibe coding”.  For more on what I did ...
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    • Vibe Coding Reflections: Really Knowledgeable, but Sort of Still an Intern

      This is part of a series of blog posts that stemmed from my first experiences with “vibe coding”.  For more on what I did ...
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    • Vibe Coding Reflections: Pair Programming Without the People

      This is part of a series of blog posts that stemmed from my first experiences with “vibe coding”.  For more on what I did ...
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    • Vibe Coding Reflections: Why Learn Something When Your Intern Has Read The Internet?

      This is part of a series of blog posts that stemmed from my first experiences with “vibe coding”.  For more on what I did ...
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    • Vibe Coding Reflections: Vibe Coding is SOOO Rad!

      Standing up Kyndryl’s Apps, Data, and AI practice as well as managing Cloud has been a lot of very rewarding work.  So much so, ...
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    • Book Review: Unicorn Project

      I actually finished the Unicorn Project a couple weeks ago and didn’t take great notes on it, so this won’t be as extensive of ...
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    • The Blog of Burgher Jon Returns!

      I’m sure the nearly no one who almost never read it will rejoice.  It’s not a cgrand re-entry; I’m as ambivelant as ever about ...
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    • Book Review: Invent and Wander (collected Jeff Bezos)

      Jeff Bezos built a company that’s worth about the same on the stock market ($1.67T) as the entire circulating supply of Pakistani Ruppees ($1.68T). ...
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    • Book Review: Promised Land by Barack Obama

      I rarely bother to post books I read for pleasure on the blog, but I thought that a lot of the people that I ...
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    • Book Review: Ahead in the Cloud by Stephen Orban

      I found a lot of great nuggets in this book, but I’m not sure I’d recommend it to everyone. If you’re trying to sell ...
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    • 2021 New Years Resolutions

      2020 was a year where I expected to just entrench and work on establishing myself at IBM. It was a really good year for ...
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    • Book Review: Leading the Transformation by Gruver & Mouser

      If you’ve read much of Gene Kim’s work you’ve heard of the transformation that HP Printers made to their firmware development process. Kim cites ...
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    • Book Review: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work by Karen Martin

      I confess, Value Stream Mapping as a technique is something I already do with clients and I was reading this book mostly to make ...
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    • Book Review: Prediction Machines

      If you’re going to be working in technology for more than 10 years, you should read this book. It’s written by a set of ...
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    • “Book” Review: Beyond the Phoenix Project

      This “book” is actually a set of conversations recorded by John Willis and Gene Kim. The main thing I can offer by way of ...
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    • My Next Move: IBM “Journey to the Cloud”

      I’m really excited to announce that I’ve taken a job with IBM, in their advisory cloud consulting service. The team I’ll be leading will ...
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    • Sportsbook at the Venetian

      Clever Idea: Leave The House Out of It (my app)

      One of my favorite experiences has always been going to Las Vegas on an NFL Sunday.  Looking at all of the potential wagers, reading ...
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    • Book Review: War, Peace, & IT by Mark Schwartz

      The book bills itself as being for the CEO that’s looking to make sense of how the changes in IT should change the way ...
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    • Clever Idea: Serverless is Commitmentless

      I’ve decided to start a bit of a series of blog posts called “Clever Idea”. I’ll use the space to talk about something I’m ...
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    • Book Review: Algorithms To Live By

      This book has a clever punch line… “What can we as humans learn from computers about how to approach problems that face us in ...
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    • Clever Idea – Invitations with Angular and OAuth

      I’ve decided to start a bit of a series of blog posts called “Clever Idea”. I’ll use the space to talk about something I’m ...
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    • Book Review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

      I had extremely high hopes for this book after listening to an interview with the author. Unfortunately, most of what I liked about the ...
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    • Book Review: Who Can You Trust? by Rachel Botsman

      I was inspired to read this book by an interview with Botsman on a podcast I listen to. It’s based on a compelling overall ...
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    • Fantasy Baseball WAR

      Whether you care about baseball or not. Whether you wanted to hear about it or not. If you’ve had more than three conversations with ...
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    • New Year’s Resolutions 2019

      2019 is starting off in a great place; I’m very happy with the friendships/relationships that I’ve formed in New York over the last couple ...
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    • Hello world!

      Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
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    • The Key to AI Investment in 2025 Part 1: Patience

      I will be the one to say it.  AI disappointed most of us in 2024.  We started the year with Chatbots that were good ...
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    • Book Review: Going Infinite by Michael Lewis

      It is so good to see Michael Lewis back to writing books that don’t have an agenda. I have read every book Lewis ever ...
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    • Book Review: Wiring the Winning Organization by Kim and Spears

      I’ve always found Gene Kim’s work interesting and his new book is no exception.  When I read The Pheonix Project I was a relatively ...
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    • Jonabot Post 4: Adding RAG for Context

      This is the fourth post in a series about creating Jonabot, the Generative AI version of me!If you missed the post where I explained ...
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    • Jonabot Post 3: Training on My Previous Writings

      This is the third post in a series about creating a Chatbot that mimics me as a consultant. I’m calling him Jonabot.  If you ...
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    • Jonabot Post 2: Setting Up the Environment and Using Prompt Engineering

      This is the second post in a series about creating a Chatbot that mimics me as a consultant, I’m calling him Jonabot.  If you ...
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    • Jonabot Post 1: This Year’s Holiday Project, Build a GenAI Consultant

      Why Do a Holiday Project in GenAI? I run Kyndryl’s Applications, Data, and AI Consulting practice in the US.  One of the things that ...
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    • The Barriers To Entry on Data Are Lower Than Ever

      Like everyone else helping customers navigate the fast moving waters of Data and AI, I have been following the new technologies and products that ...
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