Sometimes you just have to sit down and define a dropdown menu

Jessie Grenfell
Jessie Grenfell
Sometimes you just have to sit down and define a dropdown menu

AI readiness. Database readiness. Middleware readiness. UI readiness. Solid state drive readiness. How are y'all preparing organizations for a software tool?

Oh, with software development best practices that have been around for decades, I see. Emotional support... sorry, change management for the employees who've had a half-baked AI solution thrust upon them?

And for what use case are you preparing? What's a use case, you ask? The value proposition: because the people who profit from it said we all have to.

The ironic part? I will happily sell you slick agentic orchestration or a RAG brain bespoke to your org... if that's the right solution.

But I won't pressure you into an AI scheduling tool without any idea if that really fits into your organization's strategy or solves any pain points. And I definitely won't try to jam LLMs in where traditional software is the right choice and hand you an overcomplicated, token-guzzling solution that only works when the mouse feels like running.

Sometimes you just have to sit down and define a dropdown menu instead of letting an LLM hallucinate a new one every time.

Jessie Grenfell

Jessie Grenfell

Jessie has spent 20+ years architecting and delivering software for organizations where complexity is the norm — financial services, insurance, nonprofits, and regulated industries where getting it wrong isn't an option. She specializes in the hard problems: unique operational workflows, cross-system integrations, and the kind of compliance requirements (HIPAA, CCPA, SOC 2) that most developers treat as someone else's job.

At Codality, she leads every principal engagement from discovery through delivery — because she's seen what happens when that thread gets cut.