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SEP Ranks #2 on Indianapolis’ 2026 Top Workplaces List
Westfield, IN – May 7, 2026 – SEP, a software product design and development firm based in Westfield, Indiana, has once again earned a spot among Central Indiana’s Top Workplaces, placing second in the Midsize Companies category. The recognition is based entirely on employee feedback collected through an anonymous survey administered by Energage LLC. Survey […]
Agentic Bug Fixing Experience Report
We recently released our first beta build to our client’s QA. Their Software Development Product Manager knows her failure cases inside out and quickly compiled eight tricky bugs. We wondered how the Agent would handle them. Gotta start somewhere We took her bugs as a list of platforms and what she found. We wrote (I […]
Agentic Software Development Requires Good Engineering Practices
I’ve recently started working on a client project that is using Agentic AI to develop a sizable mobile application with a medium sized team. There are a couple of lessons I’m learning about how AI and architecture fit together. We have found the number of lines of code each developer generates is far more than […]
24 AI Terms Every Professional Needs to Know in 2026
AI, LLM, Context, Agent, Harness… If you can’t pin down a precise definition for any of those words, keep reading. The workplace has been flooded with new AI terminology. To add confusion, many of the words get used interchangeably. Words are important. It’s how we communicate. It’s how we make sure everyone is on the same page. So let’s start with the […]
The Workflow That Teaches Itself: A Self-Improving Agent Workflow
There’s a wave of writing right now about “harness engineering” — the idea that the infrastructure wrapped around an AI agent matters more than the model underneath it. The data is hard to argue with. Vercel deleted 80% of their agent’s tools and watched accuracy jump from 80% to 100%. OpenAI published a dedicated post […]
Treat Your AI Workflow Like You Treat Your Code
I kept having the same argument with Claude. Not a dramatic one. More like the low-grade friction of a coworker who keeps formatting the PR description wrong no matter how many times you fix it. The AI would reach for the wrong abstraction. I’d correct it. Next session, same mistake. I’d correct it again. And […]
Beyond Gold: A Platinum Layer for Wider Data Sharing
Medallion architecture (Bronze → Silver → Gold) scales well inside a governed platform—until you need to scale consumption beyond the trust boundary. Medallion Plus adds Platinum: a governed distillation layer that turns “safe to share” into a repeatable pipeline outcome, not a growing pile of one-off exports and access exceptions.
The AI Collaboration Paradox
One of our teams at SEP has gone all-in on agentic development. I don’t mean they’re simply using AI tools heavily; I mean they’re deliberately redesigning their team processes, shared infrastructure, and ways of working around it. When I was talking to the team about their experiences, one thing kept jumping out at me: AI […]
AI Agent Collaboration Starts with the Right Mental Model
You’re probably treating your AI agent like a junior developer. I know I was. It makes sense, right? The framing shows up in genuinely respected places — OpenAI’s own prompt engineering documentation advises treating GPT models like “a junior coworker” who needs explicit instructions to produce good output; engineering teams at major consultancies have characterized […]
Where AI Fatigue Actually Comes From
If you’ve spent time with agentic development, you’ve probably felt that particular flavor of mental exhaustion that hits harder than the work seems to justify. I wasn’t stuck on a hard problem. I wasn’t debugging something gnarly. I was just… keeping up. And then suddenly I wasn’t. Steve Yegge calls this the AI Vampire: the […]
The ‘Should We?’ Question: Evaluating AI Before You Commit
There is a common type of discussion happening at lots of companies right now. It may start when a competitor ships an AI feature, when a key stakeholder asks about the AI strategy, or when someone returns from a conference excited about what AI could do. The conclusion of “we need AI in our product” […]
Cool Computer Name Ideas: Examples, Tips & Why IT Cares
Pop quiz: What do wizards, superheroes, and your work computer have in common?They all need a good name. Your computer name is the first impression you make on the IT team, the conversation starter when someone glances at the label on your laptop, and let’s be honest, probably the most fun part of your onboarding […]
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