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2026
3 notes AI transformationLeadership
Six ways to tell an AI bet from an AI pilot
Most AI pilots don't fail loudly. They run alongside the old process until someone quietly stops renewing the licenses. Six structural differences between a pilot that dies and an org-level bet that compounds.
AI integrationLegacy
Three rules for adding AI to a codebase that already ships
Adding AI capabilities to a system already running your business is a different discipline than building a greenfield AI app. Three rules we keep coming back to.
AI-nativePractice
AI-native engineering, defined
The phrase gets used a lot. Here's the working definition we use at CBSI and the test we apply to know whether a team has actually adopted it.