by John Macdonald | Mar 15, 2026 | AI, Human, Leadership, The250
This token starvation has put me on a path to understand the broader context of what this can mean. Not just for me or any given worker using AI agents to do stuff, but for industry as a whole. Yes, this happened to me, but its not a blip. I’m not the only one. I’ve... by John Macdonald | Mar 14, 2026 | AI, Technology, The250
Tales from yesterday. I have 2 machines. One is personal, doing personal things. The other is doing company things. Agents drive my work on both. On the personal machine, I have 4 agents running simultaneously. On the company machine, I have 5 agents running... by John Macdonald | Mar 13, 2026 | AI, Technology, The250
A year ago, I saw a lot of entrepreneurs (or wannabes) hyping how they wouldn’t need a software team. They spouted that the marketing and product teams could simply vibe-code their way to full product development. As a heavy user of AI and a tire-kicker of vibe-coding... by John Macdonald | Mar 10, 2026 | AI, Human, Leadership, Technology, The250
We use this phrase as a helpful warning. “You don’t need to care about that.” “Stay in your lane.” “I’ve already figured this out.” But really, it’s self-preservation. We feel threatened, or we want credit for something we’ve already done, or we want to raise our hand... by John Macdonald | Mar 9, 2026 | AI, Leadership, Technology, The250
I’ve “written” 100k lines of code in the last 6 weeks. Is some of it crap? Yes. Is it bloated? Yes. Is there tech debt that needs to be cleaned up and refactored? Yes. Is some of this code doing stuff I don’t understand fully? Yes. Will there be difficult bugs to find... by John Macdonald | Mar 8, 2026 | AI, Human, Leadership, Technology, The250
Right now, we generally fall into three camps: a) “we’re doomed,” b) “it’s gonna be awesome,” and c) “we’re not sure yet, but hope it’s gonna be alright.” At some point in the future, maybe 2 years or maybe 10 or more years, we’ll know the impact that AI has had on...