# AI with breakfast Cut through AI hype and stay ahead with AI insights and great breakfasts from AI with breakfast. Page: Feed: --- ## [AI-to-AI, Not Human-to-Human](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/ai-to-ai-not-human-to-human) _2026-06-19 · Lee_ Then, in the air, I drew two lines with my finger. The first was their job as it runs today. The second was their job as it will run in three years. He went quiet, and then, like slow motion, you coul ## [The World Cup sweepstake deserved better software](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/the-world-cup-sweepstake-deserved) _2026-06-13 · Lee_ Tracking it well turns out to be less about scores and more about answering one private question: how are my teams doing? ## [Why the Next Winners May Be the Organisations Furthest Behind](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/why-the-next-winners-may-be-the-organisations) _2026-06-09 · Lee_ AI and agents are quietly removing the need or requirement for this large scale and complex transformation. The business that never built the monolith may now be the one best placed to win. ## [17 Personalised Software on Demand Tools Built in 34 hours](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/17-personalised-software-on-demand) _2026-06-05 · Lee_ I’m back at Surf Abu Dhabi. ## [Building with AI before breakfast: the piano that taught itself to spell](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/building-with-ai-before-breakfast-8e9) _2026-06-02 · Lee_ I cannot read sheet music. I have never been able to find a steady pace. Every music book I have ever picked up assumes I want to learn in a way that does not really suit me. ## [The End of Time-Based Value at the Ritz Carlton Dubai DIFC](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/the-end-of-time-based-value-at-the) _2026-05-29 · Lee_ We were billing for the hours it took an expert to deliver the thing. Expertise was the justification for the rate. Time was the unit. ## [You Have Nine Months To Become An AI Builder](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/you-have-nine-months-to-become-an) _2026-05-09 · Lee_ By the end of a one or two-day session, something measurable has almost always shifted for attendees, call it a ten to fifteen percent productivity uplift. A small but real change in how they work day ## [Building With AI Before Breakfast: A Live Airport Board for the House](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/building-with-ai-before-breakfast-412) _2026-05-01 · Lee_ If you live in certain parts of Abu Dhabi, you start to know the planes by sound. ## [Most Managers Won't Survive the Next Five Years](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/most-managers-wont-survive-the-next) _2026-04-27 · Lee_ The manager role was invented to solve a coordination problem between humans - different contexts, different skills, different motivations all needing to point in the same direction. AI is dissolving. ## [Building With AI Before Breakfast: A Games Room Scoreboard](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/building-with-ai-before-breakfast-e52) _2026-04-24 · Lee_ There was dead space in the house. ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KpblvNdkAthV) _2026-04-24 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## [The Injured Octopus](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/the-injured-octopus) _2026-04-22 · Lee_ It has been quiet on AI with Breakfast the last few weeks - travel, war, and remote schooling have all taken their turn. ## [Building with AI before breakfast: Browser Art from your data](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/building-with-ai-before-breakfast-db0) _2026-04-03 · Lee_ You have probably seen the headlines in the last week. ## [Don’t Sell the AI Tool. Own the Outcome at Centra hotel Bangkok breakfast](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/dont-sell-the-ai-tool-own-the-outcome) _2026-03-31 · Lee_ Why the next wave of AI isn’t about building better agents - it’s about verticalising into the work itself. ## [Building with AI before breakfast: Tamagochi time](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/building-with-ai-before-breakfast-61b) _2026-03-28 · Lee_ I am writing this on the balcony of my hotel in Thailand, overlooking the coast. ## [How I Built a $60 Content Machine That Outpaces a $5,000 Media Team](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/how-i-built-a-60-content-machine) _2026-03-23 · Lee_ Today I am on “holiday” in Thailand for half term and it’s great to be in a country where fried meat and rice for breakfast is a staple and what a bargain for only 8AED (£1.80) in an area called Ban Chang in Rayong. ## [Building with AI before breakfast: Which Card Should I Tap? Building a Multi-Currency Converter with AI Before Breakfast](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/building-with-ai-before-breakfast-76d) _2026-03-20 · Lee_ You are standing at a checkout in Thailand. ## [Building with AI before breakfast: The Family Budget Tracker](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/building-with-ai-before-breakfast-efd) _2026-03-13 · Lee_ Today on AI before breakfast I am tackling one of the biggest issues of the world, not world hunger, not cancer, not unlimited free energy but budgeting. ## [Stop Hiring for Skills: Why the AI Era Demands a Different Kind of Talent with Granola in my kitchen](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/stop-hiring-for-skills-why-the-ai) _2026-03-11 · Lee_ Be curious, not judgmental - Ted Lasso ## [Building with AI Before Breakfast: substack idea generation at the beautiful Zayed National Museum](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/building-with-ai-before-breakfast-056) _2026-02-27 · Lee_ Today I'm at the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi and oh my, what a building. ## [AI QA That Opens Fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/IBpukbFxRCOT) _2026-02-27 · **Sponsored**_ Runs browser QA, files issues with repro evidence, and opens fix PRs. ## [Teaching My Kids to Build With AI at Dusit Thani hotel buffet](https://aiwithbreakfast.substack.com/p/teaching-my-kids-to-build-with-ai) _2026-02-24 · Lee_ So today I headed to the Dusit Thani for their hotel buffet.