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AI in banking, LLMs in production, AI infrastructure and governance, and what actually changes when you deploy AI at enterprise scale, written for technologists not hype-chasers.
Gartner says 40% of agentic AI projects will fail by 2027. I think they’re being optimistic. Walk into almost any large enterprise right now and you’ll find the same scene: a glossy AI pilot, a proud press release, a steering committee meeting monthly to “track progress,” and an absolutely zero percent chance that any of […]
Read more →Published on andrewbaker.ninja This is a researched opinion piece. The data points are sourced and linked in the references at the end, but the conclusions drawn from them are mine. I recognise that some of what follows will not be comfortable reading, particularly for teams that have built careers, processes, and significant capital programmes around […]
Read more →There is a moment when a tool stops being something you use and becomes something that works for you. That moment, for Claude Code, arrived in early 2026. What began as a terminal-based AI coding assistant has evolved, in the span of a few months, into a platform capable of operating your machine, continuing its […]
Read more →There is a version of this story that the technology industry tells itself, and it goes like this: AI infrastructure spending is large, the returns will take time, but the demand is real and the economics will eventually follow. It is the same story told during the cloud buildout, and that one worked out. It […]
Read more →By Andrew Baker | andrewbaker.ninja I am going to tell you that AWS won. Not in the “we had a good quarter” sense, and not in the “interesting competitive development” sense. In the final, structural sense. The kind of winning that does not get reversed in the next product cycle. I say this as someone […]
Read more →Published on andrewbaker.ninja It is 09:47 on a Tuesday morning. A researcher publishes a new CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) for a widely deployed authentication library. The advisory goes live. Within minutes, an AI system on the other side of the world ingests the patch, reverse engineers it, identifies the memory corruption flaw the patch […]
Read more →Anthropic published a blog post on Monday. Not a product launch, not a partnership announcement, not a keynote at a major conference. Just a simple blog post explaining that Claude Code can read COBOL. IBM proceeded to drop 13%, its worst single day loss since October 2000, with twenty five years of stock resilience gone […]
Read more →There is nowhere left to hide. For decades, banks built an elegant asymmetry into the relationship with their customers. The bank had a team of specialists, the time to design products, and the lawyers to draft disclosure documents that were technically correct and practically unreadable. The customer had a life to live and, at the […]
Read more →1. The terminal should not look like punishment Most developer terminals look like they were designed by someone who believes productivity is a moral debt. Black box. Tiny text. No context. No colour discipline. No Git awareness. No visual hierarchy. No joy. That is not just an aesthetic complaint. It is a productivity complaint. The […]
Read more →1. The Most Addictive Technology I Have Ever Used Agentic AI is the most addictive technology I have ever used, not because it numbs the mind or encourages passive consumption, but because it creates the overwhelming sensation that your intellectual and creative potential is finally becoming unconstrained. Most addictive systems in history eventually expose obvious […]
Read more →1. The Rugby Lesson Most People Learn the Hard Way If you have ever played rugby, you learn very quickly what a handoff is. You approach a player too high, too upright, or too casually, and suddenly there is a massive palm in your face while your dignity disappears backwards across the grass. The handoff […]
Read more →If you’re like me, the idea of doing anything twice will make you break out in a cold shiver. For my Claude desktop, I often need network pcap (packet capture) to unpack something that I am doing. So the script below installs wireshark, and then the wireshark mcp and then configures Claude to use it. […]
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