Pedro Nagatomo

A recurring problem with AI-assisted development: the model forgets project conventions between sessions, so you end up re-explaining the same standards every time.

The fix isn't a longer prompt each time — it's a persistent context file. A short document with naming conventions,...

A dashboard with 40 metrics is not more useful than one with 5. It's just harder to read.

Most Excel dashboards fail not because the formulas are wrong, but because every number is treated as equally important. The person looking at it has to do the prioritizing themselves, which...

A pivot table isn't a report until someone can act on it in under 10 seconds.

I see plenty of "analysis" that's really just raw data with filters applied, technically correct, practically unusable. The person opening it still has to do the thinking the analysis was supposed to do...

"Automated" doesn't mean "unsupervised."

I've seen automations quietly break for weeks because nobody was checking whether the output still made sense, a scraper pulling stale data, a report running on an outdated formula, an API integration silently failing on edge cases nobody...