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

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

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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.
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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.