• A Mind at Work: Why the Best Interview Loops Are Already AI-Ready
  “Before I look for anything, I look for a mind at work.” — Sam Seaborn, The West Wing AI-assisted development is going to be the default. Not eventually — soon. The engineers on your team will work with AI daily,...
• AI Slop Is a Skill Issue
  So much of the AI discourse in 2025 — and still going strong in 2026 — circles back to the same complaint: AI output is slop. Generic. Confidently wrong. A glorified autocomplete that produces mediocre work. There’s a growing stigma...
• Stop Waiting for the AI Roadmap
  If your org isn’t already making AI tools available to your teams with appropriate guardrails — what are you waiting for?
• Screenshots to Blog Post: Using Claude Code as a Writing Partner
  I had 12 screenshots on my Desktop documenting a walkthrough of velo-workspace — the same project I introduced in its own post. I wanted a blog post. I did not want to write it from scratch.
• Introducing velo-workspace: Velociraptor Artifacts Without the VQL Tax
  I love Velociraptor. Out of the box, the artifact coverage is excellent – forensic collection, event monitoring, threat hunting – it handles the vast majority of DFIR use cases without writing a single line of VQL. But at every shop...
• Teaching Claude How You Think: Custom Response Modes and the SOC Triage Workflow That Followed
  A few weeks into using Claude Code, I got tired of sifting through walls of supplementary context to find the one thing I actually needed. So I changed how Claude talks to me — and accidentally built a SOC triage...
• From Tribal Knowledge to Living Procedures: Using Claude to Organize What I Learned Along the Way
  I needed to deploy a containerized application to my org’s Kubernetes environment. The documentation existed — scattered across dozens of Confluence pages, Slack threads, and the heads of people who were too busy to walk me through it. So I...
• From AI Skeptic to Practitioner: My Journey Through the Stages of AI Adoption
  The Evolution of AI Adoption I spent way too long at Stage 1.