November 28 – December 12, 2025

This hits Brian's entrepreneurship and side project interests hard - Home Depot's story of building culture, persistence through rejection, and scaling retail operations has direct parallels to his print-on-demand automation and web agency tools. The "culture of ownership" angle especially resonates with someone running multiple projects and thinking about sustainable business systems.

This is exactly the kind of deep technical breakdown Brian would want to write about - practical AI engineering patterns from a real production system. The context engineering strategies here are immediately applicable to his fintech work (webhook processing, analytics) and side projects, plus there's a clear contrarian angle about multi-agent architecture being about context isolation rather than role division.

The article is completely inaccessible (hosting error), so there's nothing to evaluate content-wise. Even if it were available, "Infrastructure-from-Code" content from early 2023 would likely be stale by now for someone working with cutting-edge serverless and CDK implementations.

This is a cool product concept but too niche for Brian's audience and expertise. While it touches on automation themes, it's more about consumer hardware design than the dev-focused automation and AI tools his readers care about. The article is also nearly 2 years old, making any commentary feel stale.

This is a typical HBR high-level strategy piece about legacy companies adopting "edge computing" innovation approaches. While it touches on relevant tech trends (5G, AI, low-code), it's aimed at corporate executives rather than engineers, and the paywall prevents seeing the actual insights. The opening statistics are generic industry projections Brian likely already knows.