Scott Davis · About 30 years in IT
I build things.
I figure things out.
I’ve spent about 30 years around enterprise systems.
AI changed how much I can do myself.
I’m Scott Davis. I’ve spent a lot of time being the person who had to figure it out. Sometimes that meant fixing infrastructure. Sometimes it meant working out what people actually needed and building it. I’ve seen things that looked great on paper and were miserable to live with. I think about that before I add another system for somebody to look after.
What changed
I can learn it
while I’m building it.
AI changed how I work. I can start solving a problem without first spending six months learning every tool involved. It helps me research the unfamiliar parts, write code, and test what we’ve built. I’ve used it for infrastructure automation, apps to help run an encampment, and cemetery records volunteers can reach from a phone.
That doesn’t mean I suddenly know everything. I still have to notice when we’re making something too complicated, when a permission setting doesn’t do what we thought, or when the result looks right but hasn’t actually worked.
I can ask AI how a tool works. I still have to ask whether we’re doing something sensible with it.
Executive | Architecture | Technical
What mattered.
Why I chose it.
How it worked.
An executive and an engineer may need different details about the same job. Each case has three views so you can start with what you want to know.
Case Studies
Here’s what I worked on.
We Had the Automation. Nobody Was Using It.
We were paying for an automation platform nobody used. I built a replacement that let engineers keep their working scripts and take better care of them.
Read the caseCemetery recordsA Board Member Shouldn’t Have to Go Find the Book.
The board needed member, plot, and ledger records on their phones. I also had to get burial availability right: a plot can hold more than one kind of arrangement.
Read the caseWorking with AIThe AI Finished. I Still Had to Check the Work.
AI helped me build infrastructure tools, web apps, and an iOS app. It also produced work that looked finished and wasn’t. I had to learn how to check it as carefully as I directed it.
Read the caseField Notes
What the work taught me.
Sometimes a job teaches me something I didn’t expect. A test rejects good work. A successful request hides an email that never arrived. Or I realize I’ve built more than I need.
Field Notes are where I work through those experiences and what I think they mean.
Latest note, September 5, 2026I Can Take On More With AI.
Read Field NotesHave something complicated?
Start with the problem.
If you’ve got something complicated and aren’t sure the current answer makes sense, I’d probably enjoy looking at it. Tell me what you’re trying to do and where you’re stuck.
Talk with Scott