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The Spreadsheet Everyone Was Afraid to Touch
A temporary spreadsheet built to save time became a business-critical system that outlived its creator. A funny story about institutional knowledge hiding in plain sight.
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Version Control for Normal Humans
Why do so many shared drives contain files named FINAL_v2_REAL_THISONE.xlsx? It isn't bad file naming. It's how people adapt when software doesn't match the way work actually gets done.
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The Vacation Test
A 35-day vacation, an AI clone, and the real lesson about knowledge capture. AI doesn't replace experience. It depends on it.
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The Error Moved To The Corner Office
Automation can eliminate some mistakes, but it doesn't eliminate responsibility. Often the errors just move somewhere harder to see - and more expensive to fix.
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The Resume That Gets The Interview
AI can make resumes better, clearer, and fairer. It can also change what a resume actually measures. And that's where things get interesting.
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The Chatbot Ate My Scenes
AI helped me start writing a book. Then it quietly buried the actual writing under scene cards, summaries, rewrites, and endless almost-progress. A look at how AI can create the feeling of momentum without helping you finish.
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Solving The Wrong Problem Efficiently
AI can generate polished, useful, and completely reasonable answers while still missing the actual problem underneath the request. Why good outputs can quietly create dangerous misalignment.
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Using AI in Everyday Work: Experience and Insights
By Leonid Kuznetsov Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly ChatGPT, is increasingly being used in everyday work to improve efficiency and speed. However, like any technology, its use comes with pros, cons, and risks that should be kept in mind.Pros and Cons of Using AI ChatGPT, like any system, can
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The Core Challenge Can Be the Governance Debt
By Eugenio Pello Many organizations accrue "governance debt" by prioritizing speed-to-market over responsible deployment. This manifests as models operating as black boxes without verifiable data provenance, explainability, or fairness audits. To establish Protovate as a thought leader and trusted partner, we must proactively address this debt by: * Mandating
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Why Your AI Demo Works Perfectly (And Your Production App Doesn't)
By Prateek Sharma Let me tell you about a pattern I keep seeing. Someone shows me an AI demo—maybe it's an image recognition tool, or a clever chatbot, or something that analyzes drawings. It works beautifully. Clean interface, instant results, everyone's impressed. Then they try
AI Adoption
From Hype to Harmony: Why Smart AI Adoption is About People, Not Just Prompts
By Eugenio Pello The rise of Generative AI has been nothing short of explosive. It feels like every week brings a new model, a new capability, and a new imperative to "integrate AI now or fall behind." Companies everywhere are experiencing AI FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), rushing