Black Duck

There’s been a million thinkpieces about ‘AI took our entry level jobs, so where will tomorrow’s Seniors come from’, so I don’t want to add to them; just a short braindump from conversations I’ve been having with peers, superiors, students and teachers over the past few weeks. You can think of this as a spiritual successor to my ‘Being a DORC’ blog earlier in the year. But, it all comes down to a simple and unoriginal thought; to anti-phrase Yoda ...

This post was originally published in The AI Journal on August 19, 2026. Why the next chapter of AI security will be defined by tokenomics, sovereign models, and normalizing models as first–class software components. Every few weeks, someone asks me if the AI bubble is about to pop. That’s the wrong question to ask. There’s no single “bubble” that will pop and send us back to the pre-GPT ‘stone age’. Rather, there is an ecosystem of ‘AI bubbles’, each inflating on a different timeline, some combining and becoming more ‘stable’, others getting frothy and ready to pop, and each with very different consequences for the security leaders who have to live with the outcomes. ...

This post was originally published on DevOps.com on April 28, 2026. AI has already arrived in the software development lifecycle; not as a pilot program or controlled experiment, but as an everyday reality. Developers are using AI coding assistants to generate functions, refactor modules, review pull requests, and accelerate delivery, often in direct tension with corporate policies meant to limit or control that use. While it’s tempting to consider this some kind of ‘Shadow AI’ or ‘Governance Failure’, it is a signal of things to come in this brave new world of AI-accelerated software engineering. ...