When former OpenAI scientist and former Tesla Senior Director of AI Andrej Karpathy first posted on X, "There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding', where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists," it’s likely he didn’t foresee the firestorm he was about to spark.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 09/23/2025
This column is the product of an ongoing hunt for companies that use AI for more than simply writing emails and creating prettier pictures of their executives. Although many seem content treating artificial intelligence like an increasingly more expensive toy, I've been seeking people and organizations that understand the true potential of this technology: systematically improving business outcomes through intelligent automation.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 08/07/2025
Our columnist offers a second opinion on the dire predictions about the future of AI, suggested by the advent of Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 05/15/2025
Our columnist holds forth on the role of interoperability in the evolution of technology, and the new demands for Agentic interoperability.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 04/22/2025
From the humble PDA to AI agents, our columnist muses on the evolution of the AI human interface.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 04/15/2025
"Despite much recent conversation about low-code/no-code (LCNC) being replaced by AI-generated applications," our columnist advises, citizen developers should be in no rush to abandon their favorite LCNC tools. It would seem that the developers of those platforms are carefully navigating the path from point-drag-click to natural language requests."
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 03/25/2025
Our columnist weighs in on the implications of the rise of the AI agent, and offers his advice for the users and developers this fundamental change will impact the ways in which they (we) will interact with software. And he asks reader to join what he hopes will be an ongoing conversation about these changes.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 02/25/2025
Our columnist observes that AI will almost certainly become more intelligent, more competent, and superior to us in so many ways that we may not stand a chance of surviving. But we might stand a chance if we get our heads around the real capabilities of this technology.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 01/15/2025
The fastest and easiest path to obtaining truly practical, pragmatic, productive, and profitable AI applications is to have someone who is already expert at producing them to create them for you.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 01/07/2025
Practical application of AI: That’s the need that inspired this column, and addressing that need was central to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's keynote at this year’s Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago. "What lean did for manufacturing," he declared, "AI will do for knowledge work."
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 12/06/2024