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Big AI Is Coming for Your Industry: What Claude's Vertical Plugins Mean for Associations

Mallory Mejias: Feb 11, 2026 6:30:00 AM

On January 30th, Anthropic released a set of domain-specific plugins for Cowork, their enterprise AI product. The plugins target legal, finance,...

AI-Assisted Software Development Anthropic Domain Specific AI

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Your Association Is a Software Company (Whether You Realize It or Not)

Mallory Mejias: Dec 9, 2025 10:28:32 AM

Microsoft. Google. Salesforce. Adobe.

Leadership Strategy Technology Software Development AI-Assisted Software Development

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Claude 4.5 Sonnet: The AI That Can Actually Build Your Software

Mallory Mejias: Oct 6, 2025 10:20:38 AM

You know that moment when your board approves a website redesign, you collect quotes ranging from $200,000 to $800,000, and the timelines all stretch...

Artificial Intelligence AI-Assisted Software Development Experimentation

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The Death of "I'm Not Technical" - How AI is Demolishing Your Biggest Excuse

Mallory Mejias: Sep 23, 2025 2:45:57 PM

In honor of 100 episodes of the Sidecar Sync, I wanted to analyze all our episodes with Claude. Simple enough goal, except our transcripts were...

Artificial Intelligence AI-Assisted Software Development

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The $3 Billion Signal: Why Your Association Can Finally Build What It Needs

Mallory Mejias: May 29, 2025 4:18:42 PM

OpenAI just spent $3 billion acquiring Windsurf, an AI-powered coding tool. Now, $3 billion might sound like an enormous sum, but for a company with...

Technology AI-Assisted Software Development

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Snooze to Win: Why Digital Naptime Is AI’s Most Productive Hour | [Sidecar Sync Episode 83]

Mallory Mejias: May 23, 2025 11:16:58 AM

Summary: This week on the Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dive deep into two cutting-edge developments in the AI world. First up is...

Sidecar Sync Podcast AI Models Sleep-time Compute AI-Assisted Software Development