by Pavan Muzumdar, Automation Alley | Jun 29, 2026 | 3D Printing
Let me be direct about a roadblock that I believe the additive manufacturing industry rarely admits publicly: today’s 3D printers are pretty good, but pretty good is not good enough – at least not if the goal is to achieve high volume, high-quality production. That...
by Pavan Muzumdar, Automation Alley | May 19, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
On February 9, 2026, Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of OthersideAI, published a blog post titled Something Big Is Happening. It spread with the velocity of a rumor that turns out to be true. His argument was stark: coding was the canary in the coal mine. What...
by Pavan Muzumdar, Automation Alley | Nov 18, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence
When people talk about artificial intelligence, they often focus on what it might replace: jobs, processes, even creativity itself. But I’ve come to believe that the real story is not about replacement at all. It’s about relationship and leverage. Specifically, the...
by Pavan Muzumdar, Automation Alley | May 13, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence
A few weeks ago I wrote an article warning us of what could happen if we let AI take over our thoughts and actions. Whether we let that happen is entirely up to us. With AI doing the mundane work, we can create a reality in which everything we do has deep meaning and...
by Pavan Muzumdar, Automation Alley | May 6, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence
For years, I’ve been deeply influenced by the wisdom embedded in Roy Amara’s Law—the notion that we “tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate its effect in the long run.” Time and again, this principle...
