I got a new manager this week. Didn't see it coming and I'll be honest - I was a bit apprehensive at first. I just didn't know much about him. Then we met and it turns out we think very much alike. Still early days but it was a good reminder that my first reaction to change is usually wrong. Has that ever happened to you - new manager, new colleague, someone on your team? @Aina Alive @Lliam Magee @Jeff Jones

I had a conversation today about AI adoption as a muscle. Not a skill you learn once, but more something you build through repetition. A few bad attempts to start, and then a few better ones, eventually it becomes natural. Which got me thinking -> every team has a muscle they're developing, whether they know it or not. What would you call yours?

As part of the next workshop - budgetting part 2 - I would like to talk about revenue recognition and SRED, two processes that no PM course teaches and yet most professional services agencies will require you to know the basics. How many of you ever dealt with those two topics?

Another interesting article I've read today. The author has been looking at an analysis of 20,000+ AI-generated applications. The conclusion is that models are actually getting better at avoiding things like SQL injection or XSS. What shows up instead is repetition — each model has its own set of common secrets it reuses across different generated apps. The same JWT signing secrets, the same placeholder passwords like password123 and admin123, appearing in app after app, along with the same endpoints. This isn’t really a coding mistake. It comes from how the model generates. Which shifts the risk. Vulnerabilities are no longer local and discovered — they become shared and predictable. Once you recognize a pattern, it is likely to appear elsewhere, as systems are generated from the same source. https://www.invicti.com/blog/security-labs/security-issues-in-vibe-coded-web-apps-analyzed?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

I watched an interesting podcast this weekend. This developer says AI is not a threat to junior devs — quite the opposite. Onboarding is much faster and easier, and with AI assistance they can produce initial results in weeks instead of months like before. The threat is actually for mid-level people. I didn’t fully understand why, but the junior perspective alone was eye-opening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc8FBhQtdsA