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Keith MacKay

@keithwrites

articles: 12
total claps: 82
top claps: 50
avg read: 8.9 min
paywalled: 11
active: 2026-05-11 → 2026-06-12

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BIZ · Business Strategy · 7 👨‍👩‍👧 · Family & Parenting · 6 AGT · AI Agents · 3 AI · AI · General · 3 LLM · Large Language Models · 3 LIT · Literature & Writing · 3 ⏱️ · Productivity · 2 💻 · Programming · 2

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#ai-strategy ·7 #engineering-leadership ·5 #ai-adoption ·5 #organizational-change ·4 #ai-agent ·3 #context-window ·3 #ai-infrastructure ·2 #developer-productivity ·2 #ai-coding ·2 #llm-management ·2

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Bucky Fuller’s To-Do List: Can AI Finally Solve the World’s Cataloged Problems?

(I wrote this during Earth Week, but Medium limits writers to two posts/day, and I’m still getting my backlog uploaded…should be caught up…

May 20, 2026 · 7 min read · 50 claps paywalled #ai #systems-thinking #sustainability

Bucky Fuller’s To-Do List: Can AI Finally Solve the World’s Cataloged Problems?

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Writers Who Use AI Without a Harness Are One Published Article From Disaster

AI can be tremendously helpful, or can drive you right into Disaster Chasm. Here are some ways to NOT get burned.

Jun 03, 2026 · 11 min read · 29 claps paywalled #ai-agent #ai-security #writing

Writers Who Use AI Without a Harness Are One Published Article From Disaster

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The AI Bullwhip: What The Beer Game Teaches Us About Uneven AI Adoption

Why introducing AI to one team might break others—and how to avoid the chaos

May 11, 2026 · 7 min read · 3 claps #ai #tech-adoption #ai-best-practices

The AI Bullwhip: What The Beer Game Teaches Us About Uneven AI Adoption

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The Companies Disrupting Your Job Are Now Proposing Rules to Protect It

The robot tax, the four-day workweek, the public wealth fund. Good ideas, self-serving ideas, and missing ideas. Let's sort them out.

Jun 10, 2026 · 14 min read · 0 claps paywalled #ai-strategy #future-of-work #ai-adoption

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AI Augmentation: Amazing. AI Replacement: A Rarity (It Can Only Do a Fraction of Your Job).

The "AI will take your job" prediction keeps getting the unit of analysis wrong. Jobs are bundles, and AI only handles part of the stack.

Jun 10, 2026 · 10 min read · 0 claps paywalled #ai-adoption #ai-strategy #future-of-work

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The Best AI Engineers Are Product Managers

Why the skills that make great PMs are the same skills that unlock AI productivity

May 18, 2026 · 10 min read · 0 claps paywalled #ai-coding #product-management #developer-productivity

The Best AI Engineers Are Product Managers

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When SafetyCo Goes to War: Anthropic, the US Government, and the Limits of Ideals-Based Frameworks

There's a standard Silicon Valley move when you want to do something that might look bad: build a framework first, then explain how the…

May 24, 2026 · 10 min read · 0 claps paywalled #ai-strategy #ai-security #organizational-change

When SafetyCo Goes to War: Anthropic, the US Government, and the Limits of Ideals-Based Frameworks

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Context in Context: Why AI Tools Degrade Over Longer Work Sessions

What every executive needs to understand about AI context windows (and how to get the best performance from your AI assistants)

May 13, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps paywalled #context-window #developer-productivity #ai-coding

Context in Context: Why AI Tools Degrade Over Longer Work Sessions

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Why Your AI Transformation Is Stalling at Middle Management

The C-suite is excited. The developers are excited. The people in between have misaligned incentives.

Jun 12, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps paywalled #ai-adoption #organizational-change #engineering-leadership

Why Your AI Transformation Is Stalling at Middle Management

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The Clean Energy Breakthrough That's Starting Now

The bottleneck for the energy transition was never sunlight. It was always materials. AI just kicked the door in.

Jun 09, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps paywalled #ai-strategy #clean-energy #materials-science

The Clean Energy Breakthrough That's Starting Now

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AI Infrastructure Scarcity is Raising Costs, but AI Usage Will Still Provide Unbeatable ROI

Costs will continue to rise, likely a lot, from inescapable scarcity challenges over the next few years. Luckily, AI capabilities will rise…

May 18, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps paywalled #ai-infrastructure #ai-agent #ai-strategy

AI Infrastructure Scarcity is Raising Costs, but AI Usage Will Still Provide Unbeatable ROI

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Software Moats in the Age of AI: What's Actually Defensible?

Why the "AI writes code now" narrative misses the point—and where competitive advantages stubbornly persist

May 12, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps paywalled #software-moats #ai-strategy #technical-debt