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Illustration showing the expanding role of agentic AI across industries
AI & Workforce

Coding Alone Isn't Enough Anymore

The data is stronger than most people realize — and agentic AI is accelerating it. A March 2026 Resume.org survey of 991 hiring managers found 57% now rate creative thinkers as more valuable than coders. This is a repricing of which human skills still produce scarce, non-automatable value.

Kim Wright 8 min read
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Build Your Own Data Agent

A free, 30-minute guide for nonprofit staff who don't code. Wire a Google Sheet to an AI model and end up with a small agent that answers plain-English questions about your donors, grants, or program budget. Costs ~$2–5 a month.

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Sulman Choudhry of OpenAI in conversation with Mat Honan at EmTech AI 2026 at MIT
AI & Leadership

Notes from MIT: What OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT Engineering Says Comes Next

Compute constraints, agentic focus, and what "AI-familiar students" really changes. Live notes from EmTech AI 2026 on Sulman Choudhry's conversation with Mat Honan.

Kim Wright 8 min read
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Nonprofits & the AI cost curve

How mission-driven organizations can build AI capacity without enterprise budgets — and what that reshapes in the sector.

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What "AI literacy" actually means for K-12

A practitioner's framework — beyond prompt engineering — drawn from work across Uplift Education and community classrooms.

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Building with agents: a field notebook

Lessons from deploying agentic workflows for Our Community Tech clients — what worked, what surprised us, what we'd redo.

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