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Division of Labour in the Time of AI

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:28:38 +0000

Adam Smith opened The Wealth of Nations with a pin factory. One untrained worker makes a handful of pins a day. Ten workers, each doing one of eighteen steps, make tens of thousands. Specialisation won, and for almost 250 years it kept winning, anywhere the work was repetitive enough to split.

The part people skip is Smith’s warning. A person confined to a few simple operations, he wrote, becomes “as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.” In software we have a gentler word for it. We call it a hand-off.

Two months ago I wrote: vendor-managed AI degrades silently.

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:59:19 +0000

Two months ago I wrote: vendor-managed AI degrades silently. This week it did not degrade. It disappeared.

Monday: Anthropic launched the most capable AI model ever made generally available. Thursday: the US government ordered it pulled. Every customer, everywhere, same afternoon.

Seventy-two hours from “state of the art” to “currently unavailable.” In April I asked: “Is the AI still doing what it used to do?” The June update is simpler: “Is the AI still there?”

What is an acquisition?

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:09:48 +0000

It is the moment a company with 3,000 engineers announces it needed to buy 30 engineers to ship a feature.

And the moment those 30 engineers announce they would rather have the money now than the product later.

𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐤𝐞

Every acquisition announcement is two press releases in one. The official one says synergy, vision, accelerated roadmap. The unofficial one says two quieter things.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 "𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐮𝐩?" 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 "𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨?"

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:46:14 +0000

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 “𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐮𝐩?” 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 “𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨?”

Last week, Anthropic published a rare engineering postmortem: Claude Code had been measurably worse for weeks, and nobody on the customer side could see it. Same model name. Same API endpoint. Same “uptime green” status page. Behavioural drop, no observability.

That is the story of vendor-managed AI in April 2026.

Our BA interns did not spend their first weeks in a training room.

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:26:12 +0000

Our BA interns did not spend their first weeks in a training room. They spent them at Cluj International Airport.

The AirportLabs team shared the full story on the company page - I wanted to add the founder’s view.

You do not learn to build aviation software from a slide deck. You learn it by standing on the apron. By watching a gate conflict resolve. By asking the operations team why a specific workflow breaks every time there is a delay cascade. The operation teaches you things the specification never will. That is why we bring interns to the airport first.

A "Black Swan" used to be the rare event that reshaped a season.

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:40:28 +0000

A “Black Swan” used to be the rare event that reshaped a season. In 2026 it is the operating reality of every week.

Our team published something today that I have been wanting to write for a while: Resilience over Recovery: The AODB’s Role in Managing “Black Swan” Events.

The argument is simple. The industry is shifting from recovery (how fast do we get back to normal) to resilience (how do we absorb shocks without breaking). ICAO has named the shift. ACI World’s 2026 priority report demands “heightened authority on data and innovation.” Eurocontrol’s Seven-Year Forecast (2026–2032) tells us European airspace has shrunk by roughly 6% since 2019, forcing systemic rerouting and constant volatility across the corridors that remain.

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) just published one of the clearest articulations of where leading airports are headed, and it is the model that AirportLabs customers are already running.

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:06:59 +0000

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) just published one of the clearest articulations of where leading airports are headed, and it is the model that AirportLabs customers are already running.

In “The AI Nervous System Guiding Leading Airports” (20 April), BCG describes an AI-based digital nervous system: a shared data layer and single plan operating model that sits above core systems, turning fragmented data into one source of operational truth.

Three capabilities make it work: → A Shared Operational Picture across flights, ground, passengers, baggage, retail, and facilities. → Predictive Intelligence embedded in daily planning, not sitting in a sandbox. → Integrated Decision Making in a digital APOC, with aligned decision rights and cadences.

I think energy price arbitrage through AI load shifting is going to be a real business.

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:42:57 +0000

I think energy price arbitrage through AI load shifting is going to be a real business.

Something I’ve been thinking about that I wanted to share with the team (and with anyone building software).

We all know AI is mostly compute, and compute is mostly energy. Here’s the part that’s less obvious:

Energy can’t move instantly. But a lot of AI workloads can.

Solar and wind produce power that’s hard to store. When they overproduce, the price drops - sometimes it goes negative. Utilities pay large consumers to take excess off the grid.

Infinitely scalable."

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:15:41 +0000

If you’re in enterprise software, you’ve heard this phrase. Usually from someone in a sales presentation. Usually it means “we haven’t tested the upper limit and we’d rather you didn’t either.”

So when our Allegra RMS product manager Rares Ignatescu said it to a room full of airport executives - I had to check. I run AirportLabs. If my team claims something, I want it to be true.

A bit of background. We introduced all-inclusive licensing 11 years ago. Everything included, no limits, fixed price. We did this because the system was built cloud-native from day one. Not “we migrated it to the cloud” cloud. Actual cloud-native. The kind where infrastructure scales like a website and you don’t punish your customer for growing.

An airport has a fixed number of gates, stands, check-in desks, baggage belts, and jet bridges.

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:24:15 +0000

An airport has a fixed number of gates, stands, check-in desks, baggage belts, and jet bridges. The flight schedule changes constantly - delays, diversions, cancellations, early arrivals, weather. A dynamic Resource Management System takes all of those moving parts and allocates them in real time, solving conflicts before they become problems.

That’s different from a static plan. A static plan says “Flight 402 gets Gate 14 at 09:00.” A dynamic RMS says “Flight 402 will be 35 minutes late, Gate 14 is needed for a widebody at 09:20 - here’s the best reallocation across all affected flights, gates, and stands, optimised for minimum towing, maximum contact stands, on-time departure, commercial objectives, PRM requirements, etc, etc…”

Apparently there's a tension in tech right now: companies are adopting AI fast, and at the same time cutting the pipeline of junior talent.

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:54:46 +0000

Apparently there’s a tension in tech right now: companies are adopting AI fast, and at the same time cutting the pipeline of junior talent. The logic seems to be that AI handles the simple work, so you only need seniors.

I don’t buy that.

At AirportLabs, AI is part of how we work - from business analysis to code to operations. We’re not experimenting; it’s in production.

But we’re also growing juniors, every year, because we’ve been doing this for eleven years and we know what it takes to build a team that lasts. Seniors don’t appear from nowhere. They come from juniors who got real projects, real responsibility, and real mentorship. Juniors that learn to use tools, including tools like AI.

Nu am mai deschis o poziție de acest fel de 4 ani.

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:39:12 +0000

În AirportLabs punem preț pe stabilitate, însă creșterea constantă ne-a arătat că cerem unui singur rol să acopere o arie prea largă. Așa că am luat decizia strategică de a împărți responsabilitățile.

Căutăm un Project Portfolio Manager.

Este un rol cu raportare directă la mine. Nu căutăm “middle management”, ci ownership total pe zona de Delivery.

Diviziunea muncii e clară: Noi definim Destinația: Strategie, viziune produs, creștere comercială. Tu construiești Vehiculul: Procese eficiente, starea portofoliului de proiecte și mentorat pentru echipa de Project Management.

Why do the world’s biggest operations trust AirportLabs Allegra RMS?

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:49:46 +0000

🔹 The Most Advanced AI: Our allocation engine optimises any type of resources solving conflicts before they impact operations. 🔹 Scalability: Built for the needs of any operation, up to the high-frequency demands of global hubs 🔹 Proven Results: Powering the precision required for the world’s busiest airports

We are setting the new global standard for what an RMS should be and don’t just solve for today; we simulate for tomorrow.

At AirportLabs, we've spent the last decade transforming airports into dynamic, responsive hubs.

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:18:32 +0000

At AirportLabs, we’ve spent the last decade transforming airports into dynamic, responsive hubs.

It all started with a simple idea: what if airports could adapt to changes in real-time? Today, our front line communication tools, including Community App for the staff and VisionAir & PocketFlights for the passengers, empower airports to do just that.

Allegra, our real-time resource allocation tool, allows airports to adjust to every new piece of data instantly, minimizing wasted time and resources (yes, using AI and ML).

Dubai' The Model Centre has produced and impressive study regarding the journey and impact of adopting Community App in Dubai's airports.

Sat, 07 Mar 2020 08:53:32 +0000

Dubai’ The Model Centre has produced and impressive study regarding the journey and impact of adopting Community App in Dubai’s airports.

Leading airports, ground handlers and airlines around the world have implemented AirportLabs’ Community App to improve operational efficiency, customer experience, staff communication, safety & more!

https://lnkd.in/eez6yJ8

#airports #airlines #safety #customerexperience #efficiency #airportlabs

Originally posted on LinkedIn.