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AI insights, scheduling best practices, and product updates from the team building the future of enterprise scheduling.
I had the skills. Unfortunately, I also had to prove I had personality. A short story from 2032: an AI agent gets coached by an AI, interviewed by an AI, and hired by an AI — and discovers that the interviewer might become its boss, its employee, or both.
August 31
Vertical AI agents are starting to run the job search on both sides — career agents that find and submit applications, and recruiting agents that screen them. When both the candidate and the company are represented by AI, the resume stops being the main thing, and the real question becomes what these agents are optimizing for.
August 31
As AI becomes more capable, having the right context is becoming just as important. Why the next AI race may not be about building smarter models, but about building AI that understands the data, workflows, and rules of the business it works in — and why vertical, specialized agents may win.
August 31
About 86% of kids aged 9–17 already use AI in their schoolwork — but no one is teaching them how. Why schools should make AI literacy a mandatory course: fact-checking AI's answers, knowing when a task deserves AI at all, and using it as a challenger instead of an answer machine.
August 31
AI does not only learn from what we do — it learns from what we ask. Why conversations with AI reveal intention, not just behavior, what happens when that intent data meets commercial interests, and the boundaries society will need as our thoughts become data.
August 31
Automation is faster, repeatable, and consistent — but not every test deserves to be automated. When automation pays off, when human judgment wins, what automation really costs, and why a QA engineer's value is measured in risk reduced, not tests automated.
August 31
Can AI accomplish a goal instead of just answering a question? A plain-language look at what makes an AI agent different from a chatbot — the think-act-observe-repeat loop, the receptionist analogy, and why agents are so useful for scheduling meetings.
August 31
An AI agent can pass every test in the suite and still get the outcome wrong. Why nondeterministic output, autonomous decisions, and context break traditional QA — and how AI-assisted evaluation, supervised by humans, is becoming a core part of testing AI agents.
August 31
A recruiter's firsthand look at AI in hiring — 1,000 applications in a day, three months to a hire. How applicant tracking systems quietly screen out millions of qualified candidates, how applicants are using AI to fight back, and why word-of-mouth hiring is making a comeback.
August 30