Field notes on AI adoption, implementation, and the workflows that actually ship — from the Second Wave team.
Engineering and architecture firms rebuild the same proposal content again and again. Here is a practical way to let AI do the first draft from your own past submissions, with review built in and nothing going out unchecked.
An open-source proxy claims to cut Claude API bills by up to 70% by re-rendering text as packed images. We built a harness to test it — and ran into something more interesting than the cost math: Fable 5's safety layer treating the benchmark itself as hostile.
88% of organizations use AI, but only about a third have scaled it. The gap usually isn't the model — it's validation. Here's the reliability discipline that moves AI from impressive demo to dependable production.
A practical, vendor-neutral guide to enterprise AI assistants — the architecture, governance, and security patterns that separate deployments that scale from pilots that stall.
How we used Gemini 3, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Nano Banana Pro to refactor our homepage—not as a magic trick, but as a practical example of AI-accelerated development.