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The full StandUp Weekend 2026 volunteer crew — 5 teams, one incredible weekend at UT Dallas
Technology & AI

StandUp Weekend 2026

How Team Animal Style spent a weekend using Salesforce to give Lamb’s Haven Rescue the tools to help more animals find their forever homes.

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Technology & AI

I Learned a New Word: Sycophantic

And then I built something so I'd never have to think about it again.

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Technology & AI

I Didn't Start With a Plan — I Started With a Question

I didn’t set out to become a gardener. I set out to get better at using AI. A low-stakes raised bed experiment turned into a lesson about feedback loops, staying in the conversation, and why squirrels are basically production bugs.

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Technology & AI

AI Isn't Taking Jobs — It's Removing Tasks and Raising Expectations

Why the most important AI shift happening inside organizations right now isn’t replacement — it’s role evolution

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Technology & AI

How I Cut 70% of Tokens from My Claude Skill

Moving business logic out of the prompt and into a deterministic script changed everything about cost, consistency, and speed.