Artificial Intelligence Blogs for Technologists
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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.
CloudScale SEO AI Optimiser: Free WordPress SEO Plugin
Written by Andrew Baker | February 2026 Download the plugin here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudscale-seo-ai-optimizer/ S3 download (updated frequently): https://andrewninjawordpress.s3.af-south-1.amazonaws.com/cloudscale-seo-ai-optimizer.zip I spent years working across major financial institutions watching vendors charge eye-watering licence fees for tools that were, frankly, not that impressive. That instinct never left me. So when I wanted serious SEO for my personal tech blog, I […]
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Intelligence vs Wisdom: Why Smart Systems Keep Failing
1. Definitions First (Because This Matters) Intelligence is the ability to acquire knowledge, process information, identify patterns, and solve problems. It answers the question: Can we do this? Wisdom is the ability to apply judgment, values, and long term thinking to decide whether an action should be taken at all. It answers the question: Should […]
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Why Asking ‘Why?’ Makes Andrew Baker a Bad CTO
By ChatGPT, on instruction from Andrew Baker This article was written by ChatGPT at the explicit request of Andrew Baker, who supplied the prompt and asked for the result to be published as is. The opinions, framing, and intent are therefore very much owned by Andrew Baker, even if the words were assembled by a […]
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The Agentic One Day Deployment: Why Vendors Leave Billions on the Table and Clients Shouldn’t Need Painful Rollout Projects
Enterprise technology vendors are facing a pipeline crisis nobody talks about openly. The gap between a signed sales lead and a completed implementation is running at two to three years in complex enterprise accounts, representing deferred revenue, deferred renewal conversations, deferred expansion, and a customer who has been living with implementation pain long enough to […]
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AI Supercharges Confidence, NOT Judgement: Why AI Is Making Technical Leadership Harder, Not Easier
Put ten surgeons in a theatre. Each has twenty years behind them, thousands of procedures, and a working memory of every time an apparently simple decision went wrong at hour four. They examine the patient and arrive, independently, at the same conclusion: this operation is a bad idea. Standing next to them is a man […]
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DeepSeek V4 Flash vs. Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus: A Coding Review
The question isn’t which model wins DeepSeek pushed the official deepseek-v4-flash API into public beta on July 31, 2026, and immediately claimed its cheap tier now beats DeepSeek’s own more expensive V4-Pro-Preview on agent benchmarks. Then, on August 13, 2026 (the announcement that landed in most feeds on Friday, August 14), DeepSeek took V4-Pro to […]
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GitHub Copilot Pricing Change: Why Teams Are Switching to Claude
Meta description: GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026. Here is what changed, why distribution masked a product quality problem for years, the data showing enterprises switching to Claude and OpenAI, and what engineering leaders need to do right now. 1. What is actually changing with GitHub Copilot pricing on June 1, […]
Read more →Memgraph & Claude Desktop: Detect Mule Accounts on macOS
1. Introduction This guide walks you through setting up Memgraph with Claude Desktop on your laptop to analyze relationships between mule accounts in banking systems. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a working setup where Claude can query and visualize banking transaction patterns to identify potential mule account networks. Why Graph Databases for […]
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The Jurisdiction Problem: Could US AI Companies Leave America?
Published June 13, 2026 1. What Happened Yesterday At 5:21 PM Eastern Time on June 12, 2026, Anthropic received a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ordering the company to suspend all access to its two most capable models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for any foreign national anywhere in the world. That definition of […]
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Finally, an AI That Understands Money, Part Two: The Lending Market Hiding in Your Embeddings
Conventional lending has confused regularity with durability. An AI reading the transaction history directly measures what a payslip cannot, and in a market like South Africa that changes who is lendable at all. This is the second of three parts. Part one explains what Revolut’s PRAGMA is and how it works. Part three covers fraud, […]
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AI Engineering: How Small Teams Now Build at Scale
I have started writing production code again. Not prototypes. Not proofs of concept. Real systems. Real risk. Real consequences. At Capitec, a very small group of engineers is now tackling something that would historically have demanded hundreds of people: large scale rewrites of core internet banking capabilities. This is not happening because budgets magically increased […]
Read more →Free AI WordPress SEO Plugin: CloudScale vs Yoast & Rank Math
1. Introduction Download the plugin here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudscale-seo-ai-optimizer/ S3 download (updated frequently): https://andrewninjawordpress.s3.af-south-1.amazonaws.com/cloudscale-seo-ai-optimizer.zip For more than a decade the WordPress SEO landscape has been dominated by a small group of plugins. Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and All in One SEO have collectively powered millions of sites and shaped how authors think about optimisation. These plugins are […]
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