Rylko Roman articles - 17 total
How We Decide Whether AI Software Is Worth Paying For
Everyone says “you must invest in AI in 2026” – but no one wants to admit how many AI licenses are...
Decentralization, Sovereign Clouds and the AI Hangover: A CTO’s View
In the last two years, three themes keep popping up in conversations with CIOs and CTOs I work...
How AI-Powered Observability Actually Changes Life For CIOs
Over the last two years I’ve watched observability tools quietly turn into something else. They...
SAP, Microsoft, Capgemini and Sanctions: What This Deal Really Means for CIOs
Written from the perspective of a European CTO. Recently SAP, Microsoft and Capgemini announced a...
When A CIO Should Restructure Their Tech Teams (And How Not To Screw It Up)
I talk to a lot of CIOs and business leaders who feel a similar pain: "We have smart people and...
Building a Ransomware Playbook That Actually Works
Ransomware is not just a “security incident.” It is an operations, finance, legal, and reputation...
How We Integrate Legacy Systems With Modern Stacks
Integrating with legacy isn’t “old vs. new.” It’s gravity. You have a system that has carried the...
The Post-SaaS Era: How AI Agents Are Redefining Software Delivery
When McKinsey introduced the term post-SaaS this year, they captured a quiet revolution already...
How Intuitive AI Is Enhancing the Information Management Process
Artificial intelligence has already reshaped how we store, organize, and analyze information — but...
Connected Care, Simpler Workflows: How to Improve Patient Outcomes and Avoid Extra Burden for Clinicians
As hospitals wire up wearables, EHRs, mobile apps, and AI decision support, tech leaders face a dual...
The State of AI Adoption in Project Management
2023 was discovery and 2024 was early use, 2025 is the year AI enters the day-to-day fabric of...
From Prompt Tricks to Context Engineering: What CIOs Should Know (and Do) in 2025
By Roman Rylko, CTO at Pynest Prompt engineering helped us get early wins. But once you put agents...
Parallel Coding with AI Agents: What’s Hype, What’s Real, and How We Run It at Pynest
AI agents working in parallel with engineers are no longer a demo-day trick. In our shop, they’ve...
Shadow AI: The Risks of Employees Using Unapproved AI Tools
I’m Roman Rylko, CTO at Pynest. We build and run software teams for clients and we use AI a lot—but...
AI Compliance-by-Design: A CTO Guide to Model Inventory, RAG Sources, and Decision Logging under the EU AI Act
The EU AI Act is now in force and rolling out in phases; several obligations arrive before full...
Agentic Misalignment in LLMs: Unmasking Risks, Real Examples, and What CTOs Must Do Now
Introduction: Why Agentic Misalignment Matters In mid-2025, Anthropic released a...
Integrating AI into Existing Platforms: What Founders Often Get Wrong
Most times, AI projects fail not because of models but integration mistakes. Here’s what founders...