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What is "Botsitting?" (plus: Data Agents Continue to Blow Our Minds)

August 18, 2026

There's a new word for what your team is doing with the AI you bought them. You're not going to love it. "Botsitting." Babysitting, but for bots. Journalists are suddenly all over it, and not one of the AI people Rob asked had ever heard of it. New name, familiar burn. Turns out mandating AI usage is a great way to pay good money for software that makes everybody slower. Then the flip side. Rob's spent years telling anyone who'd sit still that conversational data changes how we work. A recent...

Power BI Veterans React to the Fair Game AI Book

August 12, 2026

For most of tech history, the new thing belonged to the new people. Then AI showed up and ruined a perfectly good pattern. Because the smartest model on the planet can know darn near everything and still have no idea how your company works. It doesn't know which rules matter, which ones everyone ignores, why that ugly spreadsheet still exists, or that the "temporary" workaround from 2019 is now apparently infrastructure. Jon Perl, Tim Rodman, and Trent McKinster join Rob for a conversation ab...

The Crafter's Edge with Pedro Rossello

August 04, 2026

There have always been people who can't help themselves. Give them a clunky process, a messy spreadsheet, or a problem nobody owns, and they're already halfway to building something better. Rob calls them crafters. They were valuable before AI. They're becoming indispensable because AI rewards exactly the way they've always worked. While everyone else is trying to "become AI native," crafters are doing something much less glamorous. They're making one workflow better. Then another. Pedro Ross...