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The Last Generalist
We were SharePoint consultants. That sounds narrow, but it wasn’t — to do the job properly you had to speak PowerShell, Azure, M365, Microsoft Graph, HTTP, frontend, backend, DevOps. You were a specialist in SharePoint, but you couldn’t survive without being a generalist underneath it. A client came to us with a broken webpart. Built by another firm, SPFx, pulling org data via the Microsoft Graph. The list of people it needed to display had grown far beyond what anyone planned for. Hundreds of API calls, sequential, one after another. The page took forever to load. The previous team had solved it like SharePoint developers — they’d fetched what they needed, the way they knew how. ...
The Nail Gun Doesn't Make You a Carpenter
There’s a conversation happening in every tech team right now. You can feel it in the room, even when no one says it out loud. Is AI coming for my job? I want to answer that honestly. Not with hype, not with doom. Just with what I actually see. The Carpenter and the Nail Gun A Paslode nail gun is extraordinary. What used to take a carpenter an hour with a hammer takes minutes. The precision is better. The fatigue is lower. The output is higher. ...