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I made a prediction in print. The 2026 hiring data just put a number on it. When I was writing Burn the Script 2: The AI Reckoning, I argued that a new kind of valuable AI professional was emerging. Not someone with a certification. Not someone who had memorized prompts. Someone who fuses human judgment with machine cognition deliberately, at speed, and with ownership of the outcome. I called this archetype the amplified contributor. I predicted this professional would become

Six months ago I named the mechanism. This quarter the data started naming itself. The number worth holding in your head this quarter is sixty-eight percent. That is the share of technology-sector organizations telling KPMG that AI-native competitors are already earning clients and taking market share from them. Not forecasting. Not worrying. Reporting. When I wrote The AI Reckoning in October 2025, I argued the single most underestimated threat from artificial intelligence w

What Replicating My Own Thinking in AI Taught Me About the Force Reshaping All of Us Two years ago, I set out to understand AI. Not to read about it, not to observe it from a distance, but to comprehend what it is, how it works, and what its impact will actually be. That was the purest goal I had. Everything that followed came from pursuing that goal further than I expected to go. Comprehension is not a static pursuit. As I engaged the technology and accumulated successes and

Most people don’t quit ChatGPT because it’s “not smart.” They quit because they never told it who they are. They open the app, toss in a vague prompt, get a safe, generic, corporate-scented answer… and conclude the tool is overrated. That’s not a model problem. That’s an identity problem. ChatGPT without personalization is like hiring a high-end consultant and refusing to answer the first question: “What do you do, and what do you care about?” If you won’t provide context, th

The Real Reason Your AI Keeps Getting It Wrong — And the Formula That Fixes It By Dr. Dave Schippers, Sc.D., CISSP | Founder, Iron Dog LLC Most people using AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot) today are running it in its weakest mode — and they don't know it. They type a vague question. They get a vague answer. They decide AI is overrated, unreliable, or just not for them. That conclusion is wrong — but the frustration is completely legitimate. The tool didn't fail. Th