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…
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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.
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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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I Spent Two Hours Herding AI. I Could Have Just Done It Myself.
A real-world experience using AI to plan family activities with GetOut passes — and why two hours of corrections taught me more about AI's limits than any demo ever could.
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13 Deployments, One Day, and a Grudging Respect for the Process
Yesterday I took a screen scraper project and gave it a proper home on Azure. Containerized, monitored, secrets managed correctly, analytics wired up, alerts configured. The kind of infrastructure wor…
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Spec-Driven Development Needed a Rewrite
Last post I talked about finding out that [what I've been doing has a name](https://thesaltykorean.com/building/ai/development/2026/03/03/specdrivendevelopment.html). Specdriven development. Heeki Par…
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Apparently What I've Been Doing Has a Name
Specdriven development. Who knew that was a thing? I did, apparently — I just didn't know what to call it. Turns out I've been doing it this whole time, building a whole methodology around it, and all…
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