Hello 👋 I’m Eric Skelton.

I've spent 20 years in financial services, watching the tools change out from under the job every few years.

Excel. Then Access. Then SQL. Then automation platforms like Alteryx and KNIME. Now AI sitting on top of all of it.

Each shift came with the same prediction: this one finally replaces the people who do the work. It never has. It just changes what "doing the work" means.

Before any of that, I was an F-15 crew chief in the Air Force - flight controls, landing gear, canopy systems, crash response. In that job, a process wasn't "efficient" or "inefficient." It was airtight or it wasn't. There was no partial credit.

That's the lens I bring to AI. Not hype, not fear just: does this actually hold up when you lean on it?

I write AI Over 50 for people who are further into their careers than the "learn to code" crowd this stuff usually gets marketed to. You've already built something. You don't need AI to replace your judgment; you need to know where it actually earns a place next to it, and where it doesn't.

No daily news dump. No tool-of-the-week hype cycle. One idea a week, tested against the same standard I learned on a flight line: would I trust this if something was actually on the line?

—Eric Skelton