The Low-Background Steel Era of AI In my last piece I argued that the internet was never a clean dataset, and that AI is now polluting its own water supply by training on its own exhaust. Several people asked the reasonable follow-up question: so what happens next? Does the whole thing degrade into fluent mush?Continue reading “How AI’s Future Depends on Data Provenance”
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Why You Should Challenge AI’s Confidence
When I first started working with AI tools, I was genuinely stunned. The power, the speed, the breadth of what it could do, it felt like someone had handed me a turbocharger for my brain. I dove in headfirst. Then it burned me. Not once. Not twice. AI confidently gave me wrong answers, fabricated references,Continue reading “Why You Should Challenge AI’s Confidence”
Harnessing Humor to Boost AI Adoption
Why Humor Might Be the Most Underrated Accelerator of AI Adoption Picture this: It’s 11pm. A developer is staring at a memory dump the size of a small novel, fueled by cold coffee and sheer spite. They ask their AI diagnostic tool what’s wrong. It responds: “Multiple memory allocation anomalies have been detected across severalContinue reading “Harnessing Humor to Boost AI Adoption”
Transform Frustration into AI Innovation
Chris Corder| Azure Senior Technical Advisor | Published Author & Speaker. Building AI-Powered Diagnostics for Cloud Systems | Azure • Networking • Performance January 2026 A few months ago, I wrote about how the most miserable task in your job might actually be your best AI automation opportunity. For me, that task was network packetContinue reading “Transform Frustration into AI Innovation”
AI Is Making Everyone Creative, And That’s About to Change Everything
What happens when billions of people finally get to contribute their visions to the world? For as long as we’ve told stories, made art, and composed music, creativity has felt like a privilege. Some people had it. Most didn’t. If you couldn’t draw, write, or play an instrument, your ideas stayed stuck in your head.Continue reading “AI Is Making Everyone Creative, And That’s About to Change Everything”
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