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The Artifact Was Never the Job

AI can now produce the memo, the model, the deck, and the dashboard. For knowledge workers outside software, what’s left is the work those artifacts…

Oct 20 • Andrew Lewis

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The Tutor That Won’t Give You the Answer

Two trials found the same AI can double what students learn or cut their exam scores. What decided it was the answer the AI held back.

Oct 15 • Andrew Lewis

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The Clockwork Mind

AI answers arrive looking finished. Whether they make you sharper depends on how much of your own thinking the decision gets.

Oct 13 • Andrew Lewis

September 2026

Should Humans Read AI Code? I Don’t Grade the Answer.

Two questions I now ask every engineering manager candidate, and what the answers say about where a small internal dev team’s work is going.

Sep 29 • Andrew Lewis

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He Didn’t Want to Be a Meat Proxy

A reply to Obie Fernandez: the engineer in his essay works inside a process that gave the typing to a machine and offered him nothing in its place.

Sep 22 • Andrew Lewis

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The Cloud Removed a Policy Nobody Wrote Down

A successful migration exposed the integration decisions our old architecture had quietly avoided.

Sep 21 • Andrew Lewis

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August 2026

The Billable Hour Is Winning Your AI Rollout

Every enterprise AI rollout settles into the same lopsided shape, and inside a law firm the flat middle of that shape is a rational response to the…

Aug 11 • Andrew Lewis

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Your Résumé Was Evidence. Now It Is Only Output.

Hiring always worked by reading artifacts backwards to the judgment that made them, and that inference quietly stopped holding.

Aug 6 • Andrew Lewis

The Number I Never Wrote Down

Reach and audience turn out to be different mechanisms, and only one of them was ever being measured.

Aug 4 • Andrew Lewis

July 2026

We Were Already Offloading Our Thinking

A response to Yennie Jun: the autonomy we’re afraid of losing to AI was mostly delegated already — what matters is whether anyone reviews what comes…

Jul 20 • Andrew Lewis

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Agent Governance Is Access Control You Never Wrote Down

Every requirement a UN body just named for a trustworthy AI agent is the access discipline you already run for people — the only new part is the…

Jul 16 • Andrew Lewis

What a Government Proved About AI That Vendors Wouldn’t

The Government of Alberta published twenty-one papers on rebuilding its technology with AI, and the real lesson is about the part you can’t buy.

Jul 14 • Andrew Lewis

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