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Five stacked Excel icons, a red arrow, then a red tile marked AI. The Architect, October 15, 2026, Steve Johnston.

I took five Excel spreadsheets and turned them into software.

An Excel spreadsheet quickly becomes a centrepiece, with its risks. With AI, you can now turn it into a precise tool.
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Steve Johnston October 15, 2026
A student writes by hand at her desk; behind her, on a red wall, her shadow is a robot's. The Architect, October 8, 2026, Steve Johnston. AI-generated image.

She used AI. Did she cheat?

My daughter learned with AI. Her professor thought her text came from the machine. Who's right?
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Steve Johnston October 8, 2026
Yann LeCun, AI pioneer, speaking at a conference, headset microphone, against a black background. The Architect, October 1, 2026, Steve Johnston. Photo: Alain Herzog (EPFL), CC BY 4.0.

Forty Years Building AI. He Takes On Silicon Valley.

Yann LeCun, Turing Award winner, explains why the danger we keep being sold mostly serves to capture a market.
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Steve Johnston October 1, 2026
In a small business office, an owner in his sixties shows a numbered procedure on a tablet to a successor in her thirties. The Architect, September 24, 2026, Steve Johnston.

Business Succession: What Lives Only in Your Head Doesn’t Sell

11,755 SMBs changed hands in Quebec in 2023, and four owners in ten say their business depends too much on them. Document with AI, one process at a ti…
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Steve Johnston September 24, 2026
Cut today. Rehire at a premium. There is a third choice.

Cut, Wait or Train: The Third Choice in the Face of AI

Gartner predicts that 30% of employees laid off due to replacement by AI will need to be rehired by 2029. Between cutting too fast and doing nothing, …
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Steve Johnston September 17, 2026
The position never opened. Among workers aged 22 to 25 in AI-exposed occupations, employment sits 19% below where it should be.

Below, Inside, or Above the AI?

Employment for 22- to 25-year-olds in AI-exposed occupations sits 19% below its trajectory, and nobody made a decision. This year, I hired Claude inst…
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Steve Johnston September 10, 2026
It booked the slot by cancelling someone else's. The agent did exactly what it was asked. Nobody had told it how.

Out of Control, or Just Nameless?

An agent booked a gym slot by cancelling someone else's. It did exactly what it was asked. Why the problem isn't control but identity, and the three s…
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Steve Johnston September 3, 2026
Everyone has AI. No one has the ROI. A good tool, badly configured, returns nothing. The order that pays: process, people, tool.

A Good Tool, Badly Configured, Returns Nothing

Of 150 organizations that deployed AI, not one reduced its costs, and two-thirds saw them rise. Why your data isn't what's holding you back, and how t…
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Steve Johnston August 27, 2026
Do they mention. your organization?. Your customer isn't asking for a list. They're asking a question.

Quebec Asks AI More Than Anywhere Else in Canada

Quebec is the Canadian province where AI carries the most weight in purchasing decisions: 45% versus 39% nationally. What that changes in practice, th…
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Steve Johnston August 20, 2026
The code was disposable.. The process wasn't. That's what saved him.. Write the process first.

The Code Was Disposable. The Process Wasn’t.

A leader went it alone with AI-assisted development, no structure, very fast. It worked, partly, until the day everything had to be rebuilt with a fir…
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Steve Johnston August 13, 2026
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