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...
by Pavan Muzumdar, Automation Alley | Apr 14, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence
There’s a particular kind of person we’ve all come across—affable, well-spoken, maybe even from an excellent school—who seems utterly incapable of doing anything useful without someone smarter behind the curtain pulling the strings. In the world of fiction, no one...
