The Lanyard and the Clipboard

by Gavin Smith | Aug 27, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

Agentic coding has gone from party trick to office pet. Last spring, I asked Claude Code to tidy a spreadsheet that made my knees feel like dial-up modems. I expected a gentle nudge. It handed back a small report, a corrected formula, and a note explaining itself like...

The Back Door to AI

by Gavin Smith | Aug 25, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

Salesforce has chosen back doors over front ones, each fitted with a tiny API sign. The company is expanding Headless 360 so AI agents can reach Salesforce data, tools, and workflows through MCP servers. It is less a software upgrade and more a building where the...

Swim-Trunk Code: How a Sunny Demo Shifted My Lab’s AI Brain

by Gavin Smith | Aug 24, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

When I picture the future of neuroscience, I imagine calm labs, tidy datasets, and serious Bayesian-priors debates. What I did not expect was a man in swimming trunks, before thirty scientists in Barbados, saying, “Watch this,” while a projector fought the sun like a...

The AI Intern Who Ate My Lunch?

by Gavin Smith | Aug 24, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

AI agents used to be the digital equivalent of a parrot: you said a phrase, it repeated it, you nodded. Now they are overcaffeinated interns who can read the file, call the tool, summon a coworker, and somehow remember that you mentioned the password was...

The Slightly Nosy Intern Called AI

by Gavin Smith | Aug 24, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

When I first asked an AI to turn a rambling meeting note into a crisp summary, it returned a tidy paragraph and one delightful error: our finance lead, Marta, became “the legendary accounting llama.” The whole room laughed. That was the moment I understood...