Monthly Archives: August 2026

Beyond chatbots: How embedded GenAI is transforming banking application development

Business application development is entering a new operating model. The traditional approach of gathering requirements, designing screens, writing services, integrating systems, testing, fixing defects and preparing release documentation still exists, but it is no longer sufficient for enterprises that need speed, traceability, resilience and regulatory confidence at the same time. Hyperautomation brings a broader discipline…

Inside the post-merger IT overhaul at Alaska Airlines

As an aviation industry veteran with over 30 years of experience, Alaska Airlines CIO Charu Jain is all too familiar with the technology integration process that often follows a big airline merger. By her count, she’s been involved in four such projects. But none, she says, has brought her greater satisfaction than leading the overhaul…

Your AI hiring tool isn’t an HR problem. It’s a security one

For years, applicant tracking systems and recruiting platforms were treated as HR technology: Important for workflow, efficiency, compliance and candidate experience, but rarely viewed as core security infrastructure. That assumption no longer holds. Once AI begins reading resumes, scoring candidates, conducting interviews, ranking applicants and influencing who moves forward, the hiring platform stops being a…

How AI is changing the business analyst role for the better

AI’s impact has been felt across nearly every industry, and its rise has already started to alter several roles in tech, including that of the business analyst. While the rise of agentic AI may have some questioning whether AI will replace business analyst jobs entirely, as we’ve seen with most roles impacted by AI, it’s…

Deepfakes are targeting your executives. Here’s what actually works

Two years ago, I sat across from a chief financial officer who had just spent forty minutes on a video call authorizing what he believed was a legitimate acquisition payment. The call included his CEO and two board members, all speaking in familiar voices, all making the kind of small unscripted comments that make a…

Cloudflare wants to provide the operating system for the AI-first enterprise

Traditional operating systems (OS) were built to manage hardware, files, apps, and users on a device, but Cloudflare says the agentic AI era requires a whole new format. The company this week announced Cloudflare OS, which connects AI agents, enterprise data and context, internal systems, and workflows together in one secure workspace. It is open…

Why governance is the accelerator for coding agents

Governance is what lets a team run coding agents and stand behind what they ship. As more code originates from agents, the question every engineering leader is now answering is not how fast the work moves, but who owns it and how it gets checked before it lands. The teams pulling ahead decide on the…

The hidden costs of scaling AI agents without coordination

Engineering organizations tasked with scaling AI agents are discovering that the speed they initially achieved is being lost to endless rework. Without proper coordination, ten developers each running several agents against the same codebase becomes an alignment problem that compounds daily. This is a different challenge than individual productivity, and it’s where agent orchestration comes…

Why AI is forcing a rethink of data center cooling

For years, cooling has played a supporting role in data center design. Decisions have been driven primarily by compute, storage and networking requirements, while cooling systems quietly ensured everything stayed within safe operating limits. Most enterprise environments operated well within the capabilities of traditional air-cooling that was designed to sustain normal growth. This let organizations…

Structural agile: Why fast delivery quietly loses its meaning

Open the history tab of any epic that has been alive for more than two quarters. Go ahead, pick one. Count the edits. Somewhere around edit 11, the description was rewritten to satisfy a stakeholder who has since changed roles. Around edit 19, the scope was trimmed to protect a date that, in the end,…