The Keyboard Ghosts in the Machine

by Gavin Smith | Aug 30, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

For a long time writing code felt like carving a wooden spoon slow personal and occasionally stained with sweat and stubbornness You could tell the grain feel the chip and be slightly proud that the handle did not wobble Then DHH told Lex Fridman that agents now write...

Small Businesses, AI, and the Quiet Power of Paying for Help

by Gavin Smith | Aug 29, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

AI is less like a magic wand and more like a very caffeinated intern who occasionally sets the printer on fire. Yet in 2026, small businesses are not just tapping AI on the shoulder; they are opening their wallets, signing up for more services, and mixing those tools...

The Office Robot That Learned to File the Boring Stuff

by Gavin Smith | Aug 28, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

Artificial intelligence in business is less like a shimmering sci-fi villain and more like a very patient office gremlin who quietly eats your data entry, invoice matching, and email triage while you pretend to have a meeting. In plain terms, it is the part of a...

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...