The Intelligence Layer: What happens when companies stop using humans to move information around
What happens when AI becomes the intelligence layer around enterprise data, tacit knowledge, systems, humans, and decisions?
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The Constellation Model: A skills framework for people who work with AI
Blog post on how people should build skills in the AI age
Where does your software engineering team sit on the AI maturity curve?
Blog post on the differing level of software engineering AI maturity
Class of 2031: What our children will need that machines can't give them
Blog post on the coming AI age, and what skills are children might need
The tipping point for software engineering: How AI agents are changing the game
The era of handwritten code is ending. Engineers are becoming orchestrators, and AI agents are becoming the builders. I've just returned from a relaxing four-week holiday break with my family, and during that period, I was grateful to have some free time to dive into some AI experimentation. What I found-and what many on X.com and across industry are also noticing-confirms that we are truly on the…
The Gap Is Widening: 2025 AI Recap and 10 Predictions for What's Next (Part 2)
2026 AI blog predictions for business and enterprise readers
The Gap Is Widening: 2025 AI Recap and 10 Predictions for What's Next (Part 1)
2025 was an incredible year of AI progress. I wanted to take the time to map out the changes that mattered this year, summarise the key trends, and take a punt on where things might land for 2026. I've also asked my vibe-coded LLM council to provide its predictions for 2026, which I have included, which will be a bit of fun to track as we go into next year. There is a bit to cover off, so we are…
How I vibe-coded an LLM Decision Council that beats GPT-5.2-pro for executive work
Nine months ago I tried building an LLM council with ChatGPT‑4.1 and 4o to help me build executive deliverables and make decisions in my role. I got part of the way there, but the project stalled. When Andrej Karpathy shared his LLM Council build , it was the nudge to dust off the old designs and see how far I could push some of the new coding specialist models - OpenAI Codex Max and Claude Opus…
My 2025 productivity hacks (and what I’m testing for 2026)
This year was one of the biggest shifts in my personal productivity. That was largely due to introducing new tooling and processes (mostly leveraging AI). Anecdotally, it feels like I gained at least a 2x improvement in throughput per week. Statistically, one data point I have is that our company grew 40%, and my personal productivity kept pace with that extra work. My role covers: Strategy,…
No wall, just a firehose: A crazy week of frontier models and what it means for enterprise
TL;DR The last week in AI has been ridiculous if you care about models: Google shipped Gemini 3 Pro (plus Nano Banana Pro / Gemini 3 Pro Image), and pushed it straight into Search (AI Mode), the Gemini app, Vertex AI and the Antigravity agentic IDE. Benchmarks put it at or near the top of the general-purpose pack. OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.1 (Instant & Thinking) and GPT-5.1-Codex-Max , a…