Aboard

"Everyone keeps skipping the part where you build the house before you paint it. They’re just balancing on a ladder, spraying paint everywhere and wondering why none of it sticks." @ftrain on why many AI projects fail—and where these tools shine: buff.ly/ONiP3mD

"AI coding feels like a piñata just burst and if you don’t rush in there with your elbows out you’ll be left with only Tootsie Rolls." In the newsletter, @ftrain writes about why most AI projects fail, and gives advice for using the tech effectively: buff.ly/ONiP3mD

On the latest episode of the Aboard Podcast, @ftrain asked @ev_rat what he missed most about working with humans at the all-bot company he created for Shell Game. "I think the thing I probably missed most was just a general sense of truthfulness," Evan says: buff.ly/vRpu0VU

Is the future of work sitting back and watching your company of bots plan their offsite? On this week’s Aboard Podcast, @ftrain is joined by @ev_rat, the host of Shell Game, a podcast about “how Evan tried to build a real startup, run by fake people.” buff.ly/vRpu0VU

"Look, we're not young upstarts," says @richziade. "We had an old way of billing, and so we are having to reboot it. And that's just life. Reboot it." On the latest Aboard Podcast, how orgs are pricing their expertise as AI upends entire industries: buff.ly/0eSqxgM

“Four tech-world visions haunt me: The four vibe-coding horsemen of the coming AI software apocalypse,” writes @ftrain. “I’m thinking about the ways that processes could be upended when everyone can produce code.” buff.ly/rCMrJHO

"The current moment is basically a huge masterclass about the difference between processes and artifacts." In this week's newsletter, @ftrain writes that your feelings about AI might depend on how much time you spend mired in bureaucracy: buff.ly/7EodGr8

"If you think you're going to be able to hold on to them by creating fancier packaging and more ceremony and stalling...you're in for an awakening." On the latest podcast, @richziade and @ftrain dive into the ways AI is obliterating old pricing models: buff.ly/0eSqxgM

"I increasingly believe that you can predict how a person will react to all this stuff by figuring out how much of their life is spent inside of a bureaucracy," @ftrain writes of AI: buff.ly/7EodGr8

With AI drastically cutting delivery times in tech and beyond, how should practitioners price their time? On this week’s podcast, @ftrain and @richziade talk about how to value expertise amid the AI era's rapid prototyping and building. Listen now: buff.ly/0eSqxgM

AI could help make healthcare better—but as @ftrain asks Emme CEO Erynn Petersen on the podcast, how could it make it worse? "This gets worse," Erynn says, "if we decide that an 'AI primary care doctor' is good enough for poor people.'" buff.ly/152QesJ

Our cofounder @ftrain just keeps being on podcasts, and we are proud! Here's him talking all things AI on @Slate Magazine's Slate Money podcast with Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck. Give it a listen here: buff.ly/UUMXZyY

“As AI continues to improve, the opportunity for software engineers isn’t to code faster. It’s to zoom out. To understand what’s being built...and how to shape it structurally and architecturally before the first line of code is even written.” buff.ly/0wUijhq

"I tend to stay away from nautical imagery since our company is named Aboard, but I keep coming back to the image of a tugboat," writes @ftrain. "AI is the enormous ship; Aboard is the solution-engineering tugboat." buff.ly/lmSvbeX

"I think the person in this case who has the most to win in this technology change are the CFOs." On the podcast, Emme CEO Erynn Petersen discusses how AI is transforming healthcare—and how it can help save money for both patients and practitioners: buff.ly/152QesJ

"Why not pretend to have a one-size-fits all platform or a perfect answer?" writes @ftrain. "The definition of 'tech company' is changing—and broadening. Products are transforming into services in the light of the full moon, like werewolves." buff.ly/lmSvbeX

Can AI help heal our broken healthcare system? On the podcast, @ftrain and @richziade are joined by Erynn Petersen, longtime technologist and CEO of Emme, a healthtech startup that works to lower medical costs for providers and patients. Listen now: buff.ly/152QesJ

"You're still leading with your discipline. Your discipline is still going to be necessary." On the latest Aboard Podcast, @richziade and @ftrain give some advice for product managers and designers in the age of AI. Check out the whole conversation: buff.ly/9EdsAep

“AI is your general contractor, and you are the architect...while AI can simulate intent, it doesn’t actually possess it.” In our Sunday archives post, @ftrain writes about the three “A”s of coding with AI: buff.ly/n8kpO10

Organizations, @richziade writes, are, "Stubborn, slippery, deeply manipulative people that will hold onto their place in the world unless leadership has the courage and humility to embrace what’s coming." How to help your org adapt in the AI revolution: buff.ly/cfWpB9N