The intent record

I have been a developer for a long time. Long enough that my first scripts were dBASE III, before Clipper, before compiler days. I know what a good system looks like, what a bad one looks like, and most of the awkward in-between places where things break. I pay for Claude Max so I have …

Harnessing AI: Why the Missing Piece Was Never the Power

AI is the engine. It can process data, make decisions, spot patterns, and work at a speed no human team can match. That part of the equation is solved. So everyone rushes to bolt an AI engine onto their operations. A chatbot here. An invoice automation there. A report generator in the corner. Each one taps into real power. And each one, in isolation, kind of works. But kind of working is the problem. The missing piece was never more AI. It was control. And that control is custom software.