# sweet spot (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover sweet spot. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Reset](https://mcalpinej.substack.com/p/the-reset) _2026-08-16 · Jennifer McAlpine · Grow with Grit_ What a Sunday morning bookstore taught me about doing business differently ## [Branding Is Just the Standard, Made Visible](https://mcalpinej.substack.com/p/branding-is-just-the-standard-made) _2026-08-09 · Jennifer McAlpine · Grow with Grit_ What I actually said on a podcast about branding — and what I left out ## [The Standard, Part Two](https://mcalpinej.substack.com/p/the-standard-part-two) _2026-08-09 · Jennifer McAlpine · Grow with Grit_ What a hundred percent retention rate actually teaches the rest of us ## [The Standard](https://mcalpinej.substack.com/p/the-standard-a37) _2026-07-26 · Jennifer McAlpine · Grow with Grit_ On what you hold yourself to when no one is watching — and why it's the foundation everything else is built on. ## [We Let Anxiety Set the Limits: When Fear Sounds Like Reason](https://mcalpinej.substack.com/p/we-let-anxiety-set-the-limits-when) _2026-07-19 · Jennifer McAlpine · Grow with Grit_ What would you try if you genuinely believed there were none? ## [The Trifecta](https://mcalpinej.substack.com/p/the-trifecta) _2026-06-28 · Jennifer McAlpine · Grow with Grit_ On building something that holds up, season after season ## [The Copy-Paste Era Is Dying](https://mcalpinej.substack.com/p/the-copy-paste-era-is-dying) _2026-06-20 · Jennifer McAlpine · Grow with Grit_ On AI, authenticity, and why genuine is winning right now ## [Maybe You're Not Lost. Maybe the Season Changed.](https://mcalpinej.substack.com/p/maybe-youre-not-lost-maybe-the-season) _2026-06-14 · Jennifer McAlpine · Grow with Grit_ The questions that might change how you build your business—and your life. ## [You Have to Stop Feeling Guilty for Questioning](https://mcalpinej.substack.com/p/you-have-to-stop-feeling-guilty-for) _2026-06-10 · Jennifer McAlpine · Grow with Grit_ The question nobody in real estate is asking — and why it's the only one that matters ## [The Market Doesn't Have a Buyer. It Has Three.](https://mcalpinej.substack.com/p/the-market-doesnt-have-a-buyer-it) _2026-06-07 · Jennifer McAlpine · Grow with Grit_ The Sweet Spot. Who's really buying right now — and the one question that changes how you sell to them. ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kzeKPCvgyWAD) _2026-06-07 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Python for Production Design, not for Production in an AI world](https://medium.com/@jones.steveg/python-for-production-design-not-for-production-in-an-ai-world-57aaf146b876?source=rss-e5349010b205------2) _2026-05-14 · Steve Jones · Stories by Steve Jones on Medium_ Your job is the solution and the outcome, not the code I’m not a fan of Python, the library ecosystem is great, but I just don’t like the language, the interpreted inefficiency of it, the indents, the creative non-type safe bugs. But it's really rather useful, and when using Claude, Codex or Gemini they really seem to like using Python by default. However the other day I had something that I… ## [Jack Tar your Claude Code Deckhand](https://medium.com/@jones.steveg/jack-tar-your-claude-code-deckhand-924537d1d046?source=rss-e5349010b205------2) _2026-05-07 · Steve Jones · Stories by Steve Jones on Medium_ Claude is good, but it needs help from Jack The “superpowers” for Claude Code are brilliant, they create effective decks that have a reasonable impact. Gamma.app is amazing, it creates phenomenal slides using Nanobanana that look like you’ve had a design team working on them for months. So I thought “ what if I could give Gamma style skills but in a Claude Code superpower way? ” and then I thought… ## [All of your agent developers are belong to me](https://medium.com/@jones.steveg/all-of-your-agent-developers-are-belong-to-me-f4b2f53b14f3?source=rss-e5349010b205------2) _2026-04-22 · Steve Jones · Stories by Steve Jones on Medium_ How to hack Claude Code and its friends There are two great wonders of Python’s ecosystem, firstly its diversity of libraries and secondly the diversity of threats that such diversity presents. Python library based threats to infrastructure are a common occurrence, as one library pulls in a whole slew a single rotten piece can result in large scale security problems. The growing market of skills,… ## [Is your job an Agentic Macro?](https://medium.com/@jones.steveg/is-your-job-an-agentic-macro-cf2008fd4ec7?source=rss-e5349010b205------2) _2026-04-02 · Steve Jones · Stories by Steve Jones on Medium_ Why tokenomics might not be your challenge There is a fear that these leading edge mega-models will take over jobs, with screams about “AGI” and “Super-Intelligence” being what is required to replace the knowledge workers of today and to automate office and business tasks. Graphs abound that talk about “AGI” and “Phd level intelligence”, but how many jobs actually require that? What if your job… ## [Fractal Design Engines](https://medium.com/@jones.steveg/fractal-design-engines-e3c99a8e5273?source=rss-e5349010b205------2) _2026-03-24 · Steve Jones · Stories by Steve Jones on Medium_ How AI makes one type of metaverse useful Let’s bring together 3 large trends and think about how they could fundamentally change the way products are brought to market. Computer Aided Manufacturing is the norm in manufacturing these days, and of course that starts with Computer Aided Design , whether you are making T-Shirts , cars, toys or shoes , the ability to have robots take control of huge… ## [Agentic SDLCs are the new Java](https://medium.com/@jones.steveg/agentic-sdlcs-are-the-new-java-6a7869987dae?source=rss-e5349010b205------2) _2026-03-12 · Steve Jones · Stories by Steve Jones on Medium_ Coding Agents are a Development Virtual Machine Continue reading on Medium » ## [AI breaks the Agile sweet spot](https://medium.com/@jones.steveg/ai-breaks-the-agile-sweet-spot-30eb12e29967?source=rss-e5349010b205------2) _2026-02-27 · Steve Jones · Stories by Steve Jones on Medium_ How big is your team?! When doing Agile software delivery there is a “sweet spot” in terms of team size. Some people say its ‘under 15’, others will say that its better to have multiple teams of 5 or so people than one large team of 15, but everyone agrees that a 30 person team is not good for Agile. When I’ve done it I’ve erred towards smaller teams with clear boundaries, so making sure that… ## [Deep Research your Claude Code agents](https://medium.com/@jones.steveg/deep-research-your-claude-code-agents-5edc0c22af09?source=rss-e5349010b205------2) _2026-02-16 · Steve Jones · Stories by Steve Jones on Medium_ Or how to use the latest libraries So I’m using Claude Code a lot, and I’ve just released the latest updates to my Agentic SDLC, and there is one feature in it I’m pretty happy with. GitHub - SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices: Repo of the scripts I'm using to work with Claude and Gemini So one of the issues with LLMs and coding is that they don’t have the latest information, Opus 4.6 things iOS… ## [Why Americans would move south if they used Celsius](https://medium.com/@jones.steveg/why-americans-would-move-south-if-they-used-celsius-a5dbe752ba6b?source=rss-e5349010b205------2) _2026-02-13 · Steve Jones · Stories by Steve Jones on Medium_ Or why scales matter for measures I have a theory and recently I got to put it to the test, I was in New York and Chicago, then the following week I was in Stockholm and they had one thing in common: It was spectacularly cold And this is where scale matters and where my one conspiracy theory comes to the fore: I believe that America uses Fahrenheit because if they used Celsius they’d all move… ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Wc8RBjRJUkaH) _2026-02-13 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [There will be no junior coders in 2027](https://medium.com/@jones.steveg/there-will-be-no-junior-coders-in-2027-874c4d988d27?source=rss-e5349010b205------2) _2026-02-03 · Steve Jones · Stories by Steve Jones on Medium_ So how will we develop talent? I’ve been using Agent developers for a few months now, and it has made me update my opinions from 2023 on the impact of GenAI on developers and their skills. But I’ll start with the first key change: There is no career path for junior coders in 2027, and it could be sooner, because I don’t seen many reasons to delegate to someone who has been trained to just code in…