Eric Teichmiller · Speaker & Writer
Let AI carry the busywork. Just don't let it carry your voice.
I'm a generalist who treats tech like a craft, which is mostly a polite way of saying I never could stick to just one thing. I talk and write about making stuff, and about helping other folks keep a hand in instead of letting AI strip everything human out of their work.
Strive to be a lifelong student who seeks meaning through fulfillment.
Never hesitate to also be the teacher that helps others discover the same in themselves.
What I speak about
A few threads I keep tugging on.
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AI With Intent
How to let the model take the grunt work off your plate without quietly handing it your judgment and your voice while you're not looking. The actual guardrails I use myself, for teams that want to move fast and not wake up having lost the plot.
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The Generalist's Edge
Why the person who can connect two totally different worlds is usually the one who actually ships something, while the specialists are still arguing. A defense of being a generalist, plus how I manage to stay credible in more than one room without just bluffing my way through.
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Craft, Taught Forward
What building software could steal from the old master-craftsman trades, where you learn by using the thing, you get good by making things, and you pass it on by teaching whoever's next. The meister loop, basically. It's how I've worked my whole life, I just didn't have a name for it until recently.
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Security, Built In
Security has a way of being nobody's problem right up until it's suddenly everybody's, and AI is busy widening that gap as we speak. I spent about five years being the entire security team for a company, basically solo, so I'm not coming at this from a slide deck. It's more "here's what actually trips people up, and how to not be them." Build it in from the start instead of bolting it on after and hoping.
Recent writing
Some of what I've been writing.
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The Ghost in the Machine is You
Remember that question everyone keeps asking wrong?
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Beyond Fluency: The Slippery Slope
When models gain tools and agency, overreliance quietly erodes the judgment you still need to keep.
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Beyond Fluency: How Tool Access Turns LLMs Into Operating Systems
Give a language model tools and it stops being a text generator and starts being a system that acts.
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Beyond Fluency: What LLMs Actually Change
Treat language as a universal interface and the way you code, write, and think all shift, for better and worse.
On stage & on air
A few recent appearances.
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Podcast Eric Teichmiller: Exploring Cyber Security Careers -
Webinar Lessons from the Front Lines: Dynatrace's Journey with NodeZero
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Essays on using AI with some actual intent, the generalist's way of working, and what it's like to write with a machine in the room. Free, occasional, and I promise I'm not building a funnel here.
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Keynotes, talks, and workshops for teams and conferences still trying to figure out what "AI with some intent" actually looks like once you're past the hype. Tell me about your event and we'll find a date.
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