Posts by Blake Coleman
From Software Engineer to AI Builder: A Practical Guide
TL;DR FAQ: Can You Move From Software Engineering Into AI Without Starting Over? Some people think “building AI” means you have to be able to train neural networks in a research lab. It doesn’t. The field has split into three distinct layers, and two of them are wide open to people who already write code…
Read MoreArtemis II Is a Signal, Not Just a Mission
TL;DR FAQ: Artemis II is More Than a Mission When Artemis II launched in April 2026, it did more than break a fifty-year drought of human travel beyond low-Earth orbit. It marked a historic pivot from short-term demonstrations of supremacy to the steady, repeatable work of establishing operational infrastructure on another world. At STEM Search…
Read MoreThe Claude Code Leak: What It Actually Means for You (No Matter Your Level)
TL;DR FAQ: The Claude Code Leak and Its Lessons Turns out it wasn’t an elaborate April Fools joke. On March 31, 2026, one of the most sophisticated AI tools ever built accidentally left its front door wide open. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, shipped a routine software update that accidentally included a debugging file nobody…
Read MoreThe End of the Social Contract: When Silicon Valley Became Liable
TL;DR FAQ: Is social media becoming legally accountable for its design? For most of the internet era, social media operated on an unwritten deal. Platforms would connect the world, users would supply the content, and governments would mostly stay out of the way. The understanding was simple: these companies were neutral pipes, not responsible actors.…
Read MoreYes, You Should Absolutely Use AI to Make Cuts to Your Engineering Team
(Just kidding. Here’s what going agentic should look, and why the companies treating it as a headcount play are going to regret it.) TL;DR FAQ: Should You Use AI to Cut Your Engineering Team in 2026? Most teams, most companies are not ready for this. Not because the tools are hard to use, but because…
Read MoreHouston, We Have a Problem: Space Is Getting Crowded. Here’s Who’s Cleaning It Up.
TL;DR FAQ: Is the Space Economy and Orbital Data Centers Actually Ready to Scale? There’s a fantasy version of the space economy that gets a lot of airtime. Hyperscale data centers float in orbit, processing AI workloads cheaply, beaming results back to Earth in milliseconds. SpaceX and xAI merge into one giant vertically integrated machine.…
Read MoreThe $3 Billion Lesson From Spartanburg: How the Next Phase of AI Infrastructure Gets Built
TL;DR FAQ: What Does Spartanburg’s Data Center Decision Mean for AI Infrastructure and Hiring? The United States is entering the largest digital infrastructure expansion in its history. Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and enterprise data workloads are driving unprecedented demand for data centers, power systems, and fiber networks. Hundreds of billions of dollars in private capital…
Read More250,000 Manufacturers. One Story Nobody’s Telling.
TL;DR FAQ: How Mid-Market Manufacturers Are Using Cobots to Compete and Win Every week there’s another piece about a robotics startup raising $200M, or a giant automaker opening a gleaming new smart factory. Great photos. Inspiring CEO quotes. And if you run a 200-person plant in Ohio or Texas or the Carolinas, you read those…
Read MoreIs AI Doing the Thinking For Us?
TL;DR FAQ: How is GenAI Impacting Learning? Is GenAI Enhancing Learning, or Wrecking It? The honest answer is both. And that’s actually the useful part. GenAI doesn’t automatically make people smarter or dumber. What the research keeps showing is simpler than that: AI helps learning when it supports thinking, and it hurts learning when it…
Read MorePrompt Engineering Is Not Dead. It Just Found Its Place.
TL;DR FAQ: Is Prompt Engineering Dead — or Did It Just Evolve? Every few months, someone buries something either because of or tied to AI. Prompt engineering is the latest casualty, replaced allegedly by “content engineering.” Here’s what those obituaries miss: the job title “Prompt Engineer” might be fading. The skill isn’t. It’s foundational. Prompting…
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