RRandi W7h ago · 8 min readBeyond the hype, one year laterA year ago, fresh off Dreamforce, I wrote a LinkedIn article called Beyond the Hype: The Unspoken Realities of Enterprise AI Adoption. The keynotes were all about agents: AI that doesn't just answer qsalesforcegirl.hashnode.dev
GGanesh Sivakumar14h ago · 4 min readYour AI agent doesn't need a frontier model. It needs a smaller one.A position paper making the rounds this year comes from an unusual messenger. NVIDIA Research, the research arm of the company selling the GPUs that frontier models run on, argues in Small Language Moganeshsivakum.hashnode.dev
GGanesh Sivakumar1d ago · 5 min readEveryone is deploying AI agents. Almost nobody is giving them badges.Two numbers capture the state of enterprise AI in 2026, at least as the identity industry tells it. In its e-book The AI Agent Era, Okta reports that 91% of organizations are already using AI agents iganeshsivakum.hashnode.dev
RRandi W2d ago · 12 min readThe bakery windowA reader asked me a question on When your team gets called a blocker that I've been thinking about ever since: did we track why work was waiting, or was the time it spent waiting enough? The honest an4CAsalesforcegirl.hashnode.dev
RRandi W3d ago · 9 min readWhen your team gets called a blockerSooner or later, every team that's good at its job hears it. Someone in the business goes to a VP and says the team is "being a blocker." The VP comes back to the team, and the message is short: stop 2Asalesforcegirl.hashnode.dev
DDebashish Ghosal3d ago · 7 min readWhy Forward Deployed Engineers Are Suddenly Hot: The Death of the Centralized AI GuildWhy Forward Deployed Engineers Are Suddenly Hot: The Death of the Centralized AI Guild TLDR: The AI guild shipped a prompt library, a portal, and a brown-bag schedule. The tribes shipped nothing diff1Apragmatic-engineer.hashnode.dev
MMarius-Florin Cristian3d ago · 1 min readLeading security at two startups in a row, both acquired about two years after I joinedI joined Krizo in 2019 as a 24-year-old software engineer, and Omnio in 2020 as its CISO. Dataminr acquired Krizo in early 2021 and IBM acquired Omnio in 2022, each about two years after I joined. Thikeibidrop.hashnode.dev
TTarek Mostafa6d ago · 12 min readThe Product Management Framework for AI Products: A KU Leuven Professor's AssessmentClassical product management frameworks—discovery, delivery, iteration—assume that software behavior is deterministic and completely specifiable before deployment. AI products break that contract entitarekmostafa.hashnode.dev
SSandeep KashyapOct 21 · 10 min readHow to manage cross-team dependencies“Any update on this?” If your project depends on another team, you’ve probably sent that message more than once. Maybe you’ve even reworded it a few times in the same week to avoid sounding impatient.sandeepkashyap.hashnode.dev
JJustin PenningtonOct 20 · 4 min readThe Founder Who Still Ships: What Staying in the Codebase Buys a Small Software TeamSomewhere around year three of running a software consultancy, most founders close their editor for the last time. The calendar fills with sales calls, hiring, and partner meetings, and writing code s11Sjustinpennington.hashnode.dev
