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What AI Actually Is (From Someone Who Remembers Building "Did You Mean")

Angela · September 7, 2026

I don't think most people really understand what AI is - and that's okay, because it isn't new magic. It's the same interpretation problem I was solving with SQL wildcards and data dictionaries years ago, just handed the ability to actually act.

Claudeforce: What It Actually Changes (and Doesn't, Yet) for Salesforce Customers

Angela · September 4, 2026

Salesforce and Anthropic's new partnership runs in both directions - Claude reasoning inside Salesforce, and Salesforce's live data reachable from inside Claude. Here's what's actually real today, what's still pilot-stage, and where I think the real opportunity sits.

Security and Governance in an Agentic World

Angela · September 2, 2026

The threat model changed from hackers and crawlers to agents mining every layer at once - which means security and governance now have to come before innovation, not after.

Revenue Cloud (Now Agentforce Revenue Management) vs. CPQ: What You're Actually Deciding When You Switch

Angela · August 20, 2026

CPQ still works fine for a lot of companies. Revenue Cloud - recently renamed Agentforce Revenue Management - solves a different, bigger problem, and knowing which one you actually have matters more than the platform choice itself.

Clean Data Is the Foundation AI Actually Runs On

Angela · August 4, 2026

Poor data quality doesn't just produce a bad report anymore - it drives agentic hallucinations, compounding errors, and a quietly eroding ROI case for AI.

VB, SQL, and the Server You Already Have - A Practical Case for On-Prem Data Cleanup

Angela · July 13, 2026

You don't need enterprise ETL tooling to clean data and regenerate load files safely - a Windows server, SQL Server, and VB scripting, done without ever letting the data leave the building.

SQL and Scripting Still Matter - Lessons From Nearly 30 Years of Writing Code

Angela · June 4, 2026

From classic ASP and SQL Server to .NET, Salesforce, and now AI-assisted development - the fundamentals that held up, and why they matter more, not less, in the AI era.