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Why Specific Positive Feedback Matters

Grant Erickson — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0000

I recently gave a YouTube Live talk on AI for business leaders. Overall, I felt it went reasonably well. Though, like many speakers, it’s often hard to gauge how it actually landed in the moment. Our technical team did an excellent job, but I was curious about my own delivery. So I asked for feedback.…

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The Students Have Spoken: AI-Integrated Web Development Survey Results

Grant Erickson — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Course: CSCD 379 — .NET Web Development (300-level), Eastern Washington University, Winter 2026 Instructor: Grant Erickson (IntelliTect), with Meg Gravatt and Benjamin Michaelis Approach: Full integration of AI tools across requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, and DevOps Total Responses: 8 Overall Likert Average: 4.375 / 5.0 Series posts: If AI Writes the Code, What Should We Teach?, A Powerful Hope for the Future, Software Engineering Fundamentals Matter More…

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AI in Software Education: The Final Projects Are In

Grant Erickson — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

This is my final post in a series about integrating AI into my .NET Web Development course (CSCD 379) at Eastern Washington University. (Earlier posts: If AI Writes the Code, What Should We Teach?, A Powerful Hope for the Future, Software Engineering Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever, and The Students Have Spoken) The quarter is over. The final projects…

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Automating Legacy Content Conversion with AI

Andre Korchemniy — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Background For more than 40 years, iCEV has provided Career and Technical Education (CTE) curriculum used by educators nationwide. Their platform includes multimedia lessons, assessments, vocabulary exercises, worksheets, and certification preparation materials across disciplines such as agriculture, health science, business, and law enforcement. Over decades of curriculum development, iCEV accumulated thousands of instructional documents in multiple formats,…

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Architecting an AI Assistant for Conversational Reporting in Education Platforms

Andre Korchemniy — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Background iCEV has supported Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs for more than 40 years. Its online platform provides curriculum across fields such as agricultural science, health science, business, and law enforcement. Through multimedia lessons, customizable courses, and industry-recognized certifications, iCEV helps educators prepare students for real-world careers. As interest in AI-powered assistants increased across…

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Software Engineering Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever

Grant Erickson — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

This is the fourth post in my series about integrating AI into my .NET Web Development course at Eastern Washington University. Here are links: If AI Writes the Code, What Should We Teach?, A Powerful Hope for the Future, and Software Engineering Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever. This post is different. This one is about what the students…

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Predictive Insights for Career and Technical Education

Clayton — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Background For more than 40 years, iCEV has supported Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs with a comprehensive online learning platform designed to prepare students for real-world careers. Its curriculum spans a broad range of subject areas including agricultural science, health science, business, and law enforcement. Through multimedia lessons, customizable courses, and industry-recognized certifications, iCEV equips educators…

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Software Engineering Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever

Grant Erickson — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

It’s been an exciting journey integrating AI into my .NET Web Development course at Eastern Washington University. Building on my earlier posts about our initial experiments—“If AI Writes the Code, What Should We Teach?” and “A Powerful Hope for the Future”—I’m thrilled to share that students are still delivering outstanding results. Their original web apps—complete…

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A Powerful Hope for the Future

Grant Erickson — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000

I am seeing powerful hope growing in the next generation of software engineers. My web development students at Eastern Washington University are absolutely crushing it. After a successful foray into AI by building Wordle from scratch, I gave them a new challenge: create any web app they want, as long as it doesn’t already exist…

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If AI Writes the Code, What Should We Teach?

Grant Erickson — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

For the past four years, IntelliTect’s staff has partnered with Eastern Washington University to teach a variety of computer science courses. I teach the .NET Web Development class, and every year I’ve wrestled with the same question: How do I meaningfully integrate AI into a curriculum that’s supposed to prepare students for the real world?…

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Is Nondeterminism Really The Problem?

Clayton — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

LLMs are powerful tools, but interacting with them effectively can be surprisingly unintuitive. Commonly, they’re dismissed as being nondeterministic, that for the same input they may produce a different output. Prompt: Write a haiku about nature. Option 1: Morning light drips slowThrough pine needles, the earth breathesA bird stitches dawn Option 2: Golden sun sinks…

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Is the Era of Writing Code Over? An Ongoing Debate

Rob McFarland — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:31:19 +0000

Ryan Dahl’s recent claim that “the era of humans writing code is over” has sparked a wave of reactions across the software industry. Coming from the creator of Node.js, this is not a throwaway take. It is a signal that something meaningful may be shifting in how software is built and what it means to…

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AppSec 2025: AI Moved the Goalposts

Chris — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Application Security in the AI Era In their recent paper titled “Hype Cycle”, Gartner provides an AI temperature check. The research firm that advises executives and IT leaders on what to buy and what to prioritize offers clear guidance on which security ideas are early and messy, which are overhyped, and which are becoming normal.…

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On the Persistence of Memory (or Lack Thereof)

Rob McFarland — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000

I’ve been thinking about how to be more intentional in the way I work with AI. Not just how to get better results with my prompts, but how to organize the relationship over time. If this is a tool I’m going to use day after day, across projects, across years, it seems reasonable to assume…

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Machine Learning in .NET: Blasphemous or Blessed?

Dan — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000

As a developer in 2025, you cannot say 10 words without AI being at least 2 of those words. Despite its I recently had the opportunity to talk about machine learning in .NET at the Spokane .NET Conference. This opportunity was amazing to be able to share my learnings, engage in thoughtful conversation, and have…

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Developer Productivity with AI: Two Truths and A Lie

Dan — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:45:00 +0000

As a developer in 2025, you cannot say 10 words without AI being at least 2 of those words. Despite its near ubiquitous nature in developer conversations, opinions range from the most useless tech since Blu-ray to we should all be out of jobs yesterday. When articles discuss developer productivity opinions range just as much.…

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When Adding More AI Agents Makes Things Worse

Clayton — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:45:00 +0000

If you’ve spent any time around modern AI systems this past year, you’ve probably heard some version of this idea – if one agent is good, more agents must be better. The thinking goes: Need better reasoning? Add agents.Need reliability? Add agents.Need scale? Definitely add agents. A recent paper, “Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems” (December…

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The ABC’s of How to Use AI Effectively

Dan — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000

In a recent Microsoft blog, a new study with over 4,000 business leaders was conducted to try and grapple with the question of how people are using AI today effectively. Engineers and leaders around the world are attempting to create scalable and replicable success paths for integrating AI into their workflow. AI is the single largest…

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Accelerating Accessibility: AI-Powered PowerPoint Remediation for Career and Technical Education

Clayton — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Background iCEV, a leader in Career and Technical Education (CTE) for over 40 years, provides educators and students with a comprehensive online platform offering curriculum across agricultural science, health science, business, law enforcement, and more. With multimedia lessons, customizable courses, and industry-backed certifications, iCEV equips students with the skills they need for workforce success. To…

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How the Top 5% Succeed in GenAI: A Guide to Beating the Odds

Clayton — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000

In today’s rapidly evolving environment, cutting through the AI hype machine to distinguish between genuine breakthroughs and mere distortion can be a formidable task. Are we on the cusp of an economic bubble or the dawn of true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? While opinions abound, the most reliable insights often emerge from major research institutions…

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From Beethoven to Butterflies: The Story Behind AIS Images

Grant Erickson — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:26:47 +0000

For those of you who know me, I’m a geek at heart who loves to write code. At this stage of my career, I mostly focus on IntelliTect’s core business needs, but coding still calls to me and I love spending an evening creating something beautiful from code. As you (likely) know, the AI revolution…

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Using Photo Forensics to Spot AI-Generated Images

Kevin Bost — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:34:16 +0000

Recently, our team at Intellitect launched AIS Images, a curated library of AI-generated visuals. The platform gives designers easy access to high-quality, professionally styled images designed for real-world use in presentations, campaigns, websites, and more. Read more HERE. To promote the launch, we ran a fun challenge on social media:We shared a set of images, told…

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The Accidental Image Library: A Story of Curiosity, Creativity, and 100,000 AI-Generated Pictures

Clayton — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Earlier this year, we got to indulge two of our favorite things: supporting the arts and technology to build cool things. We built the Audience Interactive System (AIS) to power the Spokane Symphony’s ‘Beethoven vs A.I.’ performance. The goal was to create a truly immersive experience, blending a classical art form with cutting-edge tech to…

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Building Smarter Software with Consumer-Grade AI

Meg — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0000

AI is everywhere, but is it really changing how we build software? Sure, it’s making developers faster, powering chatbots that can answer questions like a real person, and helping users find information faster than ever. But here’s the question I keep asking myself: What new things can we actually build with general, consumer-grade AI tools? Let…

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Enhancing Career and Technical Education with AI-Powered Alignment

Rob McFarland — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:49:42 +0000

Background iCEV, a leader in Career and Technical Education (CTE) digital resources, provides educators with lesson plans, multimedia content, assessments, and coursework designed to meet industry standards. To enhance its platform, iCEV collaborated with IntelliTect to integrate advanced AI technologies, streamlining the alignment of educational content with state and industry standards. This partnership aimed to…

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Transforming iCEV’s Digital Education Platform

Rob McFarland — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:28:02 +0000

Background iCEV, a comprehensive digital curriculum platform, provides educators with ready-to-use lesson plans, multimedia presentations, interactive coursework, and assessments, all aligned with industry standards. The platform supports Career and Technical Education (CTE) across various subject areas, equipping students with practical skills and certifications to enhance their readiness for the workforce. As iCEV experienced rapid growth…

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Transforming Risk Management in the Insurance Industry with Predictive Analytics

Rob McFarland — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:59:59 +0000

Background WaterStreet Company, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Kalispell, Montana, is a team of property and casualty insurance industry experts dedicated to transforming operations for P&C carriers, MGAs, insurtechs, and startups. Their cloud-based insurance administration platform, powered by Microsoft Azure, is complemented by a suite of back-office services, offering a one-stop-shop solution to help…

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Garden-Variety Realtime RAG

Clayton — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:07:45 +0000

Enriching Voice to Voice Generation with On-Demand Knowledge Inspired by our marketing manager Rob’s recent post on leveraging AI in personal applications, I decided to try OpenAI’s Realtime API for a practical project: creating a garden helper for my wife and me. But this experiment also demonstrated the broader power of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG),…

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Getting Fit with the Help of AI

Rob McFarland — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 20:04:54 +0000

Does This Sound Familiar? You work all day in front of a computer, sitting for hours on end. You know you should be more active, but between work demands, family responsibilities, and the need for some downtime, finding time or motivation to exercise feels nearly impossible. You’re aware that being sedentary isn’t good for your…

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