We are told daily that autonomous AI agents are ready to take over systems engineering. The pitch is seductive: point an agent at a repository, let it handle the dirty plumbing of deployment, and wake up to a clean, running service. Last night, I watched that fantasy collide head-on with reality. It ended at 2:22
Sep 28, 2026 · @Dimitris Kokoutsidis The superpower that almost nobody uses FileMaker 2026 can build a relational schema from plain SQL text. That covers tables, fields, relationships, indexes, auto-enter values, validation and external container storage. You need no plugin, no Manage Database clicks and no clipboard XML. The script step is Execute SQL, and
Independent developers invest in the platform. Access to its future should have a clear path. During the research and development of ai2fm, we found defects in FileMaker that could silently change what a developer had written. Parameters disappeared during copying. Steps pasted across versions with different settings. Different exports of the same script disagreed. We
For years, much of the most valuable FileMaker knowledge has been difficult to discover. Some of it lives inside conference portals. Some appears during live streams and then disappears beneath hundreds of unrelated videos. Some is published without enough context to understand why it matters. Some is technically correct but presented without structure, evidence, or
A few days ago, Alex Karp went on CNBC and said something many serious businesses have already been thinking, even if they do not say it publicly. They are paying for tokens. They are not always seeing enough value. And, more importantly, they are not fully comfortable with what may happen to their data, prompts,
Why FileMaker Needs a Real Text Standard for Humans, IDEs, and AI Agents I recently gave another presentation about ai2fm.com, .fmscript, and the future of FileMaker development in the age of AI agents. This one was different. The first presentations introduced the idea: yes, we can copy FileMaker scripts out of Script Workspace, work with
From my live presentation on fmTraining.tv I recently had the pleasure — and the pressure — of presenting ai2fm and fmscript.org live on fmTraining.tv with Richard Carlton and Margaret. It was not a polished slide-only presentation. It was a working demonstration. We opened real tools, asked real AI models to write real FileMaker scripts, inspected
