Blank Metal Weekly AI Headlines

Issue #36 • August 14 - August 20, 2026

Aug 21 • Blank Metal

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Time to Start Over?

5 signs that modernizing your tech stack will pay off.

Aug 7 • Blank Metal and Chris Belden

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AI Isn't Just Changing How We Work. It's Changing Who Does the Work.

What OpenAI's new Work at the Frontier data means for how you hire, review, and organize.

Aug 3 • Blank Metal and Matt Johnson

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July 2026

AI Hasn’t Changed the Design Thinking Process

It’s changed what it’s for.

Jul 28 • Blank Metal

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Don't Train Tasks. Build Builders.

AI training shouldn’t measure completion, it should measure whether behavior actually changed.

Jul 8 • Blank Metal and Teresa Marchek

We built a Codex-powered website crawler in four hours

There were thirty teams competing at OpenAI’s Global Codex Hackathon, and our website crawler won us fourth place.

Jul 6 • Michelle Thorsell and Blank Metal

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April 2026

Welcome to the Great Reinvention

The work isn’t AI adoption, it’s the reinvention of how people and companies operate.

Apr 23 • Blank Metal and Matt Johnson

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If You're Still Chatting With AI, There's a Better Way to Work

Everyone has AI access now.

Apr 16 • Blank Metal and Dan Wick

March 2026

It's Not About the Ceiling, It's About the Floor

The New Baseline of Software Development Competence in the AI Era

Mar 27 • Blank Metal, Matt Johnson, and Dan Wick

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February 2026

The Real Shift Behind Enterprise Agents

Feb 24, 2026: Anthropic launches even more enterprise agentic capabilities

Feb 24 • Blank Metal and Mark Hines

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Stop Demoing AI. Start Building With It.

Blank Metal offers Claude Code Workshops to enterprise organizations

Feb 11 • Blank Metal

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January 2026

The Power Behind the Recent Anthropic and OpenAI Healthcare Moves

A personal take from a Blank Metal co-founder

Jan 27 • Blank Metal and Teresa Marchek

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