Testing local models for your business used to be an engineering project, but there is actually an easier (and free!) way. NVIDIA Build is NVIDIA's public AI model catalog. A browser-based playground plus an OpenAI-compatible API, free wit…
One week on the dot: https://lnkd.in/g32yQfUz
If your AI stack is locked to one vendor in 2026, you're not running a strategy. Two open-weight releases in the last few days are really highlighting why a single-vendor AI stack is a liability. On April 20th, Moonshot released Kimi K2.6…
Opus 4.7 dropped. Over or under 2 weeks before ChatGPT 5.5 comes out?
Don't be like Microsoft. If your AI strategy is to just throw AI at everything and hope for the best... that isn't a real AI strategy. Just like adding Copilot to every product is not a real AI strategy. (I'm looking at you, Copilot in…
Anthropic finally officially announced Mythos (aka Capybara). Allegedly so effective at uncovering software vulnerabilities that Anthropic has restricted preview access to a select group of the world's largest organizations, helping them i…
Just 4 days until the KC Salesforce Community Group architect panel! Come join us at UMKC's Bloch Executive Hall as we dive into career advice, navigating Salesforce projects, and the pathway to becoming an Architect. Bring your questions!
Processing files in Apex has always been… painful. This new namespace helps with that. The new(ish) Compression namespace has gone under the radar, and I wanted to share it. Internally at Elevate, we have already gotten a lot of use out of…
Your system of record and your source of truth are not the same thing. I hear these terms used interchangeably all the time. And I get why. In simple setups, they often are the same system. But conflating them creates real problems at sca…
Many companies are deploying AI. Almost none are governing it properly. As AI systems evolve from simple assistants to autonomous agents, the frameworks used to manage them need to keep up. Most companies are not ready for what's coming.…
Most AI projects fail before they even start. Not because of the tech, but because of why they’re started. It's exciting to see companies jumping into AI. But too many projects I'm seeing lack real strategy behind them, driven by externa…
The "more context is better" myth is killing your AI agents (studies prove it!) I have seen the same advice over and over again: give your agents more context, more tools, more information, and they will perform better. Here is what actua…
Excited to be speaking at the Kansas City Salesforce Community Group! I'll be sharing what I've learned along my journey as an architect. It's a packed panel, including an active Salesforce CTA. Hope to see some of you there!
The internet you remember is gone. Sometimes I'll reflect on recent "golden ages" of things I've lived through or am living through (are we in the golden age of streaming, or is that already behind us?). When it comes to quality, human-ma…
I promise I'm not clairvoyant. The timing of this post was just uncanny. I posted the below last Friday, two days before the Super Bowl, and had drafted it a week earlier because the topic was already on my mind. A lot has happened since t…
Excel is powerful. It's also where efficiency goes to die. I wanted to share a story about a client project because I think a lot of companies can relate. Their old process looked like this: take every project, manually plug the values i…
OpenAI just declared war on Salesforce. I've previously dismissed the idea that AI and vibe coding could threaten incumbent SaaS companies. Fly-by-night vibe-coded solutions will eventually disappear, and companies attempting to compete…
