Dominic Plouffe
CTO of Trellis, with exits at FuseTalk, 360pi and DeadHeat. I write about making agents and big data work together safely, and I'm building yaaf, an open-source platform for running teams of AI agents that actually finish the job: yaaf.dplouffe.ca
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Is Vibe Coding’s $12B Market Built on Broken Foundations?
Usage is exploding. Trust is not. 92% of US developers use AI coding tools daily. 41% of global code is now AI-generated. The market is already being sized…
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Does OpenClaw Really Work for Non-Programmers? The Truth Hurts
For most non-programmers, OpenClaw does not really work. Not in the way people mean when they ask the question. Yes, you can watch a slick demo. Yes, you…
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The Hidden $100K+ Reality: What 50+ Enterprise OpenClaw Deployments Reveal About True Implementation Costs
Open source is not the cheap part. The cheap part is the license. The expensive part is everything you now own. Across 50+ documented enterprise OpenClaw deployments, the…
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AI Financial Modeling Battle: Shortcut vs Claude vs ChatGPT Performance Data (2026 Analysis)
It is tempting to turn this into a horse race. Shortcut beat Claude. Claude beat Copilot. Copilot beat ChatGPT. Done. That framing is wrong. The better question is…
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Enterprise AI Dashboard Integration in 2026: Claude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini for Business Intelligence
Most enterprise AI dashboard projects fail in a very plain way: the team asks the model to make a dashboard, when the real work is moving data through…
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Real-World ROI Battle: How Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini Stack Up for Mid-Market Sales Analytics in 2026
Real-World ROI Battle: How Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini Stack Up for Mid-Market Sales Analytics in 2026 Most mid-market teams do not have an AI problem. They have an…
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Claude Code Reviews: 50% Productivity Gains vs. Rising Quality Control Concerns in Enterprise Development
Claude Code is doing two things at once. It is making developers faster, and it is making some teams nervous about what speed is doing to code quality.…
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The State of LLMs in Business Today: What’s Working, What’s Not, and What Comes Next
The State of LLMs in Business Today: What’s Working, What’s Not, and What Comes Next Most businesses are no longer asking whether large language models, or LLMs, are…
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Agent design patterns for production
TL;DR: Build agents by composing small, well-instrumented capabilities, enforcing runtime controls, and designing for predictable state transitions. These patterns reduce surprises in production and make agents auditable, debuggable,…
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Daily digest: Agents, Systems, and Mental Models (auto)
Daily digest: Agents, Systems, and Mental Models (auto) Daily digest: Agents, Systems, and Mental Models (auto) Intro As CTOs you are being asked to make fast, high-stakes decisions…