May 15 · 94 min read · Updated May 15, 2026 • 65 min read The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence: A Practitioner's Guide from Dartmouth to 2030 Francisco Marques da Silva I'm Francisco — Director-level data and AI practit
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May 11 · 9 min read · A pragmatic note on where large language models earn their keep in financial reconciliation, and the unsexy engine I had to build to keep them honest. For a few months in 2025, I tried to let a lang
Join discussionMay 2 · 6 min read · THE DROP The biggest lie about ai project failure is that it’s caused by weak models or bad data. That belief feels comforting. It’s also why most teams never make it to launch. THE PROOF Eighty percent of AI projects don’t fail because they’re broke...
Join discussionMay 2 · 9 min read · THE DROP Behind closed doors, big tech ai strategy isn’t about smarter models. It’s about quiet systems no one markets, buried so deep most teams never realize they’re standing on them. THE PROOF Here’s the part that never makes the keynote slides: i...
Join discussionMay 2 · 7 min read · She stared at the Kanban board like it had personally betrayed her. Red cards. Yellow cards. A long, unbroken column labeled “AI-Handled” that was supposed to be empty by morning. It was 3:11 AM. The board was not empty. It was mocking her. Somewhere...
Join discussionMay 2 · 9 min read · The consensus chant about ai for developers is simple: senior engineers are better because they prompt better. Cleaner prompts. Longer prompts. More clever incantations. Juniors copy them, paste them, and expect enlightenment. This belief is wrong. N...
Join discussionApr 30 · 11 min read · Every major consulting firm has now run the numbers, and they tell the same story. McKinsey's 2025 State of AI survey found that only 39% of organizations report any enterprise-level financial impact from AI, despite 88% now using it regularly in at ...
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Apr 30 · 12 min read · Originally published at Gothar Tech Part of our 2025 software architecture series. Taste Is the New Intelligence Subtitle: Constraint craft is the new scarce currency once intelligence is affordable for everyone. There’s a specific kind of quiet yo...
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