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Eight sessions kept returning to one idea: leading through AI is as much a leadership challenge as a technology one. Here is what I heard and what I am doing with it.
Read more about Without a Map, We Need to Be the Compass: Notes from CIO 100 Leadership Live Boston
Every PR template now ends with a checkbox asking whether AI was used. It is the least useful question you can ask. A Delivery Record answers the useful one: who reviewed this, and what did they actually check?
Read more about Delivery Records: the receipt that a human reviewed the AI's work
Naming AI agent's excuses was the easy part. Here is the workflow that turns those names into tests. Pull the promises out of your prompts, map each one to the rationalization that would break it, and let the author of the excuse decide if you need an adversarial prompt or an adversarial fixture.
Read more about Testing AI Agents using the Catalog of Neutralization Techniques (CANT)
Marcus built a Claude Code skill that records a narrated video of a Drupal module setup. I liked it enough to spend some time abstracting it off the ddev container, onto the macOS host, and out of Drupal so it can record a tutorial for anything: a terminal, a native app, or a browser.
Read more about Automating screen recordings using Screencast Skills
Introducing the Catalog of Agent Neutralization Techniques (CANT): a comprehensive, named field guide to the excuses AI agents make. Every one caught in the act or borrowed from those who have, plus the counter for each. It turns out a 1957 criminology paper saw all of it coming.
Read more about The 28 rationalizations your AI coding agent uses to break your rules
A pattern for scheduled maintenance agents that never break anything on their own: a deterministic script applies the changes, and a Claude Code task reads the log and tells you what actually happened.
Read more about Deterministic by design: scheduled routines with Claude Code
Design, migration, and build, all in a weekend, with Claude as the collaborator. Here's what that process actually looked like and what it produced.
Read more about I rebuilt this website in a weekend using AI
If you've been to a Drupal camp in the last few years, you've probably seen Kevin sprinting from session room to session room, making sure every speaker hit the big red record button.
Read more about I'd like to nominate Kevin Thull for this year's Aaron Winborn Award
Building on last week's Paragraphs carousel, here's how to drive a Bootstrap Carousel from a field, handy for a Featured Image field doing double duty as hero and Open Graph image.
Read more about One or Multiple: a Bootstrap Carousel from a multiple-value Drupal field
A similar approach to the multi-column section, this time for a slideshow, giving content admins an easy way to add a carousel to any page.
Read more about Making a Bootstrap Carousel with Drupal Paragraphs and a single Twig template
Theming the HTML select to look consistent across browsers is a task unto itself. Here's a CSS-only approach applied to an exposed filter on a view.
Read more about Styling Views exposed-filter selects in Drupal 8
One Paragraph bundle that renders a 2-, 3-, 4-, or 6-column layout, each column able to hold any of the bundles you define.
Read more about A multi-column content section with Drupal Paragraphs and Bootstrap