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Engineering leadershipLinkedIn post

When AI-written RFPs inflate the scope

AI on both sides of procurement can turn suggestions into requirements. Quality discovery gives vendors a meaningful project and budget to price.

Five-panel cartoon about requirements growing through procurement. A woman asks an LLM for a way to get groceries home. The RFP becomes an electric cargo bicycle; vendors interpret it as a connected delivery tricycle with tracking and dashboards. The final specification is an enclosed pedal-powered command center with solar power, a satellite dish, a drone and a coffee maker. The wide final panel reveals the actual need: a simple wire grocery basket on the ordinary green bicycle she already owned.
ArchitectureLinkedIn post

Software risk changes even when code does not

I'm for sure going to post some stuff from #AllThingsOpen this week, but that got sideswiped yesterday/today for news from... PHP? That wasn't on my bingo card.

Events & reflectionsLinkedIn post

Learning at The AI Conference

Out here learning everything I can about AI so you don’t have to. Lots of great insights to share, stay tuned!

Alexander Thomas at The AI Conference in San Francisco, 2026.