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.
For most of my career in algorithmic trading, the person most likely to break my code was somebody else. Trading systems change constantly, and the pain was rarely a single bad change; it was the merge, where two engineers altered the same strategy or order handling logic in different branches, both sets of tests passed […]
Read more →When a $3 API call can replace a $165 per user per month platform, the financial mathematics of enterprise software fundamentally change. 1. The New Economics of Customer Engagement Something fundamental shifted in 2024. The capabilities that once justified six and seven figure enterprise software contracts became commoditised overnight. Not gradually, through slow competitive erosion, […]
Read more →AI is a powerful accelerator when problems are well defined and bounded, but in complex greenfield systems vague intent hardens into architecture and creates long term risk that no amount of automation can undo. 1. What Vibe Coding Really Is Vibe coding is the practice of describing intent in natural language and allowing AI to […]
Read more →Update, 21 September 2026: four days after publishing I built this design into my own tooling, ran it for a day on real work, and switched it off. The guard blocked twelve whole file reads in real projects and delegated none of them, because every time Claude was blocked it read the file in windows […]
Read more →I was in the Kruger Park recently, where everyone talks about the Big Five: lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo. They are the five animals everyone wants to see, and they are big, powerful and dangerous, built by evolution to survive in an environment that punishes weakness immediately and without appeal. It got me thinking […]
Read more →Search engines no longer operate alone. Your content is now consumed byGoogle, Bing, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and dozens of otherAI driven systems that crawl the web and extract answers. Classic SEO focuses on ranking. Modern discovery also requires AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) which focuses on being understood and extracted by AI systems. A marketing […]
Read more →1. The question worth asking properly A colleague messaged me recently about Claude Cowork, loving what it does, but with one worry he couldn’t shake, at what point have we ceded so much organisational context and IP to a vendor that they could simply run us. That is the actual question this piece is trying […]
Read more →1. The Physics Makes the Point Brutal Here is the uncomfortable physics problem. If two Death Stars come into existence at the same time, and one fires first, the other never gets to respond. Not because it is slower.Not because its sensors are worse.But because causality itself prevents reaction. A weapon travelling at the speed […]
Read more →There is a man on the internet who calls himself Pliny the Liberator, and for a little over two years he has made a public habit of getting new AI models to misbehave shortly after they launch. When Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on 22 September 2026, he posted what he said was its full […]
Read more →Why the most powerful operational model in financial services already exists, almost nobody is copying it, and the people who should be leading the charge are the biggest obstacle to it. 1. What a Dark Factory Actually Is In advanced manufacturing, a dark factory is a facility that runs without human beings on the floor. […]
Read more →There is a version of this story that most technology vendors would prefer you heard. In that version, Switzerland evaluated Palantir’s data analytics platform, found it impressive, but ultimately declined due to vague concerns about national sovereignty: a regulatory sentiment, a political posture, nothing that applies to a commercial enterprise operating under normal procurement constraints. […]
Read more →Anthropic and OpenAI have converged on the same number. Two hundred dollars a month buys the top consumer tier at each company, Claude Max 20x on one side and ChatGPT Pro on the other, and both are pitched in nearly identical language, promising heavy, unlimited feeling access for people who would otherwise burn through thousands […]
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