Category: Artificial Intelligence
Ghostty Is the Terminal Claude Code Deserves
There is a meaningful difference between running Claude Code and running it well. The agent is doing serious work: reading your codebase, modifying files, running tests, interpreting output, and looping back. If your terminal is fighting you the whole time, you are burning cognitive load on the environment instead of the work. Ghostty is a […]
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GitHub Copilot Pricing Change June 2026: Why Enterprises Are Switching to Claude and What to Do Before the Bill Arrives
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, […]
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How Does LLM AI Store Your Data: Claude Conversation History, Data Retention, and What Are Embeddings
If you have ever wondered whether your Claude conversations are saved to your phone, whether deleting a chat actually removes your data, how long Anthropic keeps your history, or what on earth your words become before a language model can read them, this post answers all of it. Most explainers stop at the surface, telling […]
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The Biggest Threat to AI Investment Is AI Itself: How $700 Billion in Infrastructure Could Be Wiped Out by the Technology It Was Built to Run
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 […]
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Wintel Is Dying to LinARM: How Mythos Class AI Just Tipped the Scales
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 […]
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Is AI Profitable? The $1.4 Trillion Scorecard Nobody Wants to Talk About
Technology Strategy · AI Economics · May 2026Andrew Baker · Group CIO, Capitec Bank For the last three years, the technology industry has spoken about artificial intelligence with almost religious certainty. CEOs describe it as inevitable, venture capital firms describe it as transformational, and analysts describe it as the next industrial revolution. Every quarterly earnings […]
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The CVE Wave Is Coming. Most Organisations Are Not Prepared.
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 […]
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Hidden Bank Fees Exposed: How AI Will End Fee Smuggling
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 […]
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The Leadership Handoff: How Learned Helplessness And Management Bottlenecks Are Slowing AI Era Organizations
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 […]
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Claude Code Terminal Setup: iTerm2, CLAUDE.md, and the Configuration Most Guides Skip
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 […]
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