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

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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Blank Metal Partners with Anthropic to Advance Healthcare & Life Sciences

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Blank Metal is joining Anthropic as a partner in their Healthcare & Life Sciences efforts, launching January 12…

Jan 11 • Blank Metal and Matt Johnson

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AI-Powered Modernization Is Real. One-Shot Replatforming Is Not.

Why the vendors promising “push-button migration” are measuring the wrong thing and what actually works when you need to modernize.

Jan 7 • Blank Metal and Eric Johnson

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November 2025

Building Shippy

How Blank Metal is Reimagining Professional Services with AI (and Vercel)

Nov 14, 2025 • Blank Metal

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You can’t automate your way out of a motivation crisis

Here’s the uncomfortable conversation happening in boardrooms right now: We have people doing work they don’t care about.

Nov 11, 2025 • Blank Metal and Eric Ness

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October 2025

How Blank Metal Transformed AI Adoption from Scattered Experiments to Strategic Practice

When a growing communications consultancy found their team using AI tools inconsistently, they needed more than training.

Oct 30, 2025 • Blank Metal and Mark Hines

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AI Is Ending the Era of Domain Expertise

When systems learn to hold context, knowledge transfer becomes instantaneous, and job security based on “knowing the system” disappears.

Oct 29, 2025 • Blank Metal and elli rader

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What OpenAI’s Usage Data Reveals About How Generative AI Is Reshaping Work, Teams, and Competition

The new How People Use ChatGPT report is one of the most useful pieces of evidence we’ve seen about how generative AI is actually being used — not in…

Oct 21, 2025 • Matt Johnson

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Building a Better Claude Workflow

MCP Servers, Sub-Agents, and the Joy of Custom Commands

Oct 21, 2025 • Michelle Thorsell

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