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    Requirements Engineering Is the Skill Agentic Development Forgot

    AI coding agents follow instructions faithfully, but when those instructions are ambiguous, they quietly fill the gap with a plausible guess instead of pausing to ask.
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    Realizing the Full Value of AI Requires More Than Tool Adoption

    Discover why sustainable success with Generative AI requires a holistic approach that goes beyond tool adoption. To unlock true innovation and efficiency, organizations must align their strategy and operating models to empower teams to use this technology effectively.
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    How To Do A (Successful) Rewrite

    How exactly should you handle a project that has gotten to the edge
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    How to Level Up Your Product Delivery Through Smarter Software Practices

    In software development, it’s easy to get bogged down in a solution that involves the ideal design, architecture, data model, and tooling. But beneath all of that, there’s something far more fundamental driving success: communication. This was apparent in one of our clients who was looking to increase the predictability...
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    Building Better Evals

    2025 has been described as the year of the agent. We have seen incredible advancement in the capabilities that AI agents have been able to accomplish. As the role of the agent grows, one fact remains true: evals are more crucial to the success of AI adoption than ever before.
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    Data First: Why Quality and Cleanliness are the Prerequisites for Generative AI in Manufacturing

    The Roadblock to Generative AI Implementation Generative AI (GenAI) holds immense promise for manufacturers seeking to automate complex processes like custom quoting. Our client, an Iowa based Injection Molder (manufacturing process for producing parts by injecting molten material into a mold), was eager to implement GenAI to enhance their quoting speed...
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    Community Service Highlights

    Highlighting how Source Allies employees have used their talents to give back to the broader community.
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    The Iterative Migration

    How an iterative migration system unlocked our team to deliver a NoSQL to SQL migration.
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    GenAI in Production: Avoiding the POC Purgatory

    Why do so many companies have AI projects that are never making it to production, and what tools we have discovered to help us overcome those hurdles effectively and consistently?
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    From Manual Checks to Automation: Building a Slack Bot for Time Entry Reminders

    Tired of chasing missing time entries? We built a Slack bot that automates weekly time checks, nudges teammates, and flags anomalies, making time tracking effortless.