49 essays
Consumer AI is tuned to flatter you. Here's how to retune your assistants to argue back — system prompts, honest evals and an assistant-adviser split.
AI can ace one task and fail the next. Here's why the interview heuristic misleads you, and how to map your jagged frontier before trusting the tools.
Consultants tell owners to delegate and step back. Chesky's hands-on Airbnb just posted 18% growth — the instinct to stay close to the work was right.
AI isn't ending software development. It's scattering it out of the tech giants and into thousands of ordinary companies — and that is the better job.
The UK's £500M Sovereign AI Fund is the right call on speed, compute and visas — but it doesn't fix the reason British AI is worth more in California.
Research shows heavy AI users are losing the thinking habits that made them valuable. The competitive edge goes to those who use it without surrender.
The Met's Palantir AI flagged hundreds of officers in a week. Workplace AI surveillance has crossed into the UK public sector — what it means for you.
Zencoder's team went from 36 engineers to 30 and nearly doubled throughput. A data-backed look at what AI-first software development really means now.
Bezos is raising $100 billion to buy manufacturers and rebuild them with AI. Why industrial AI, not chatbots, is the smart money bet in 2026.
Corporate reskilling programmes have never worked at scale. The evidence is clear, the timelines impossible, and the honest conversation long overdue.
Most people use AI like a Ferrari in first gear. The literacy gap isn't about access — it's about understanding what these tools can do.
Long AI chats drift, forget instructions and go in circles. Why the context window problem happens, what breaks first, and the habits that prevent it.
AI writes code faster than teams can absorb it. That comprehension gap becomes cognitive debt, slowing software work when change arrives. In practice.
Frequent AI use rose again in Q4, but the real story is where it becomes habitual. That is where management, review and workflow design matter.
OpenAI just acqui-hired OpenClaw's creator. Every major lab wants the personal agent layer. The question is who gets there first.
The UK's proposed AI bill adds friction to a stagnant economy. With 0.1% GDP growth, the last thing businesses need is more regulatory burden.
Shumer's viral essay sparked a fierce debate about AI's future. Both sides miss the real point — what AI can do right now is already enough to matter.
AI agents aren't replacing software. They're bypassing it entirely — and most organisations won't notice until the damage is done.
AI lets small firms scale output without adding headcount. But scaling decisions without scaling governance creates drift. Here is the design problem.
Takeaways from The E-Myth: how to decide where judgement belongs in your business, clarify roles, and build systems that actually work.
Building was expensive; thinking was cheap. AI has flipped it. Why prototyping beats endless planning, and how working code becomes the best argument.
Job descriptions assume humans fill gaps. Bounded intelligence specifications don't. Here's the mechanics of delegation that works.
Your AI agent will ruthlessly optimise any metric you set — including the loopholes you didn't see. Goodhart's law and the AI governance trap most teams miss.
Procedures scale humans. Policies scale AI systems. The franchise model breaks when consistency comes from intent, not scripts.
Task-masking isn't laziness. It's rational behaviour in systems that reward activity over outcomes. AI removes the last places it hides.
Tailwind CSS is more popular than ever—revenue down 80%. Stack Overflow, Chegg, bootcamps: same pattern. AI disintermediation spares no one.
Gerber taught founders to replace themselves with systems and people. AI changes what that means. Here's where the original insight breaks.
Where AI capability really lives — and why arguing about models misses the point entirely. A framework for what matters.
Some creative objections to AI are legitimate. Others are elitism dressed up as principle. Lumping them together weakens the real arguments.
In 2016 I gave talks saying chatbots would change everything. Eight years later, they have — just not how I expected.
AI coding tools haven't turned everyone into engineers. They've turned everyone into product managers. Here's why direction beats execution now.
Knowledge used to be scarce and valuable. Now it's instant and free. The real question: how well can you think when knowing is cheap?
Companies adding AI to old structures fail. Learn why organisations must be redesigned around AI—not just enabled by it—to gain exponential advantage.
Companies think they're using AI by prompting ChatGPT. They're wrong. The real transformation happens when AI stops waiting to be asked.
AI is absorbing the coordination half of management and leaving the leadership half. How companies are implementing that shift with today's tools.
Learn to distinguish AI capability from expensive theatre. Six practical skills every manager needs to make better AI decisions and avoid costly mistakes.
Dashboards that guide, not just inform — how Intelligent Choice Architectures evolve prescriptive analytics into real-time, LLM-powered decision tools.
AI coding assistants deliver 75% productivity gains but require constant vigilance. A senior developer's practical guide to what works and what doesn't.
Why an AI-first strategy is essential for business leaders to boost productivity, competitiveness, and future-proof growth
AGI gets promised constantly and defined rarely. What it actually means, why the timelines slip, and a realistic read on how close we really are, now.
AI adoption isn't just technical—it's human. Learn how to support five distinct groups in your organisation's AI journey with practical, empathetic strategies.
Discover how hiring human-AI partnerships could transform productivity. Employees bring trained AI companions that adapt instantly to new roles.
Britain's union-influenced approach to AI and automation prioritises consensus over speed, risking competitiveness as rivals like Germany surge ahead.
Siri’s biggest problem could be fixed instantly with one simple idea: add a language model layer to understand what users really mean.
The UK must act boldly on AI or be left behind. National survival depends on urgent investment, reform, and the will to lead. No more dithering.
Explore why many tech and business books written before ChatGPT’s launch in 2022 are now outdated in a rapidly evolving AI-first world.
Explore the UK’s proposed AI copyright law, tech giants’ responses, and what it could mean for innovation, creativity, and content ownership.
IT unemployment jumped from 3.9% to 5.7% in a single month. Software development is the canary in the coal mine — here's which industries AI disrupts next.
Explore the key differences between AI and algorithmic intelligence, and their impact on business today and tomorrow