Zalt Blog

Do you need to code to use AI agents? No. Using and even assembling agents for real work is fully no-code today. Code only matters if you are building custom agents from scratch. Here is where the line actually falls.

What does a fractional CTO actually do day to day? They own the senior technical decisions, roadmap, architecture, hiring, reviews, and investor confidence, a few days a month. The job is leverage, not writing every line of code. Here is the full breakdown.

How do you choose the right AI consultant when everyone sounds impressive? Weight production experience above the pitch, ask what broke in production, and watch for anyone who cannot say no. Here is the checklist, including the red flags.

What is the best AI training for an engineering team? Not the biggest course brand. The best kind is hands-on, built around your own stack, led by a senior facilitator, and it leaves the team with a reference repo they keep. Here is the full checklist.

A model is stateless between calls. Agent memory and retrieval are the engineering that fakes continuity: the context window for short-term, a vector store for long-term, and retrieval that injects only what each step needs.

You can automate your own work with AI agents without writing code. Find the repetitive, low-judgment tasks, hand each to an agent, and keep yourself in the loop for the decisions that matter. Here is the full playbook.

Online AI course or in-house team training? They solve different problems. Courses build individual understanding cheaply. In-house training turns that into a team shipping in your own stack. Here is how to choose, and when to do both.

A good technical keynote speaker is not the most polished one. It is the one who has shipped the work, tells the truth about tradeoffs, and can answer your engineers' hardest question live. Here is how to spot one before you book.

You cannot unit-test an AI agent, its output is non-deterministic and open-ended. You eval it: golden dataset, LLM-as-judge scoring, and a deploy gate that blocks regressions. Here is how to set it up.

What can AI employees actually do for a business in 2026? More than answer prompts. They can own recurring work, use approved tools, coordinate as a team, and bring you the decisions that need your attention.