Posts by Blake Coleman
Prompt 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…
Read MoreIBM Got This One Right: Why Entry-Level Hiring Still Matters in an AI Economy
TL;DR FAQ: Is AI Really Killing Entry-Level Jobs, or Just Redesigning Them? The mood going into 2026: AI is taking jobs Late 2025 and early 2026 has been full of warnings about AI replacing people, especially at the entry level. On February 9, 2026, Matt Shumer published “Something Big Is Happening.” It spread quickly because…
Read MoreDeep Tech as Industrial Infrastructure
The era of deep tech only being thought of as scientific projects is over. The industrial phase has begun. TL;DR FAQ: How is deep tech becoming industrial infrastructure? For years, deep tech lived in a world of long timelines and longer pitches. Venture capitalists bet on breakthrough science. Founders promised paradigm shifts. Everyone talked about…
Read MoreAmerica’s AI Hiring Laws Are a Well-Intentioned Trainwreck
“Bad decisions made with good intentions are still bad decisions.”– Jim Collins, How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In TL;DR FAQ: How Are AI Hiring Laws Slowing Down Hiring and Reducing Job Opportunities? Removing bias in hiring is a worthy goal. Creating objective, skills-based processes that focus on qualifications instead of…
Read MoreWhy Everyone’s About to Have to Replace Their Computer
This isn’t another post about ChatGPT or how to use AI to level up your skills. This is about how the infrastructure shift of where AI sits is about to cost you and your company a lot of money. TL;DR FAQ: Why On-Device AI Will Force a Mass Computer Replacement If you’re reading this on…
Read MoreTesla’s Great Reset: Why the Company You Knew is Gone Forever
TL;DR FAQ: What is Tesla’s 2026 Great Reset and Why Did They Stop Making the Model S and X? If you’ve been following Tesla even casually, you’ve probably noticed something feels different lately. The company that spent nearly two decades perfecting electric cars just pulled off one of the most dramatic pivots in corporate history.…
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