Posts by Blake Coleman
Yes, 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…
Read MoreWhat Talent Acquisition Teams Are Facing In 2026 & 2027
TL;DR FAQ: What Are The Current Challenges Facing Talent Acquisition Teams in 2026/27 Talent acquisition is entering a phase shift. The last decade was about tooling up, scaling up, and speeding up. The next two years are about restoring trust, rebuilding signal, and proving business impact in dollars, not vibes. Below are the five pressure…
Read MoreOzempic Was Just the Beginning
TL;DR FAQ: Is Ozempic Really Just a Weight Loss Drug? Everyone’s heard of Ozempic. Your neighbor takes it. A celebrity probably does too. It’s been on the cover of magazines, debated in Congress, and blamed, fairly or not, for everything from shrinking portion sizes at restaurants to a run on insulin supplies. But here’s what…
Read MoreThe Donut Lab Solid-State Battery: They Called It a Scam. Then the Test Results Came Back.
TL;DR FAQ: Is Donut Lab’s Solid-State Battery a Scam or a Breakthrough? If you have followed solid-state batteries for the past decade, you have seen this movie before. A startup announces a breakthrough. The numbers look unbelievable. The timeline says two or three years. Then the timeline slips. The specs get revised. The press cycle…
Read MoreThe Silicon Dirac: What OpenAI’s Physics Breakthrough Really Means
TL;DR FAQ: What Does OpenAI’s Physics Breakthrough with GPT-5.2 Really Mean? When you have an atomic physicist on your team and a co-founder who listens to frontier physics podcasts for fun, conversations can drift into a place few recruiting firms go. Gravity. Gluons. The “final boss” of physics. Most people do not spend their afternoons…
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