Technology leadership, career insights, and the business of innovation.
Owner of SK Meridian LLC, former President of Harvest Data Corp, and former Microsoft MVP.
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…
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…
How I built a style-guide skill to keep my writing voice consistent across blog posts when working with Claude.
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.
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…
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…
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…
Here we go. Again. I've been in technology for nearly 30 years. I've built ETL products from scratch and sold them to clients like Kimberly Clark, CocaCola, and Johnson & Johnson. I've managed $12M cl…
A technology leader shares his experience navigating a broken hiring process — and what recruiters can do better.