Randy Walker

Technology leadership, career insights, and the business of innovation.

Owner of SK Meridian LLC, former President of Harvest Data Corp, and former Microsoft MVP.

Read the Contract

A guy from an expert network called Ridgetop Research hit me up on LinkedIn last week. Friendly message, totally professional — his client wanted to chat with a former employee of a Fortune 100 compan…

April 20, 2026 · Randy Walker

The Iteration Loop Is Still the Job

Spec-driven agentic development compresses the build phase. It does not eliminate the iteration loop. A debugging story from this week and what it says about the methodology.

April 17, 2026 · Randy Walker

Debugging Code You Didn't Write (But You're Still Responsible For)

I spent Tuesday morning staring at a 404 from a service I knew existed. The table engine was up. The routes were registered. The tests passed. And every single request from the front end came back wit…

April 15, 2026 · Randy Walker

I Let AI Write My Code for a Week. Here's My Honest Report.

There is a difference between asking AI to help you write a function and asking it to build your company. GitHub Copilot suggests an autocomplete as you type. That is promptresponse AI — you ask, it a…

April 13, 2026 · Randy Walker

I Built a Chrome Extension to Stop Filling Out the Same Application 200 Times

I applied to 47 jobs last week. I also built a Chrome extension. One of those activities was interesting. The application process for most jobs is a ritual everyone has accepted without questioning: u…

March 30, 2026 · Randy Walker

Teaching the AI How I Write

How I built a style-guide skill to keep my writing voice consistent across blog posts when working with Claude.