AI & Automation

  • Plan Your Dive and Dive Your Plan

    Plan your dive and dive your plan is two instructions, not one. Accepting the plan and saying go are separate gates, and the space between them is the only place where changing…

  • No Code Without a Ticket

    Every dry cleaner in the world runs on the same rule. No ticket, no shirts. That is my rule for working with AI, and I mean it literally.

  • The Day I Let It Run

    Fifty agents went out. Nothing crashed, nothing errored, and the site came back unrecognisable. The failure mode nobody writes about, because it does not look like failure while it is happening.

  • The Speed of Thought

    The night I handed over the backlog, four hours after watching the pipeline run end to end for the first time. When the path from idea to production gets that short, a…

  • Standing on the Dock

    The thing stopping most people from using these tools is not that they do not understand them. It is the edge of the dock, and the only method I have ever found…