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.
Ghostty the terminal for Claude Code: Config, Splits, and Scripts
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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Capitec Pulse: The Engineering Behind Real-Time AI at Scale
By Andrew Baker, Chief Information Officer, Capitec Bank The Engineering Behind Capitec Pulse 1. Introduction I have had lots of questions about how we are “reading our clients minds”. This is a great question, but the answer is quite complex – so I decided to blog it. The article below really focuses on the heavy […]
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AI Coding Gap: Dark Factories and Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing in 2026
What the gap between frontier AI teams and everyone else actually means for developers, managers, and organisations in 2026 1. The Paradox Nobody Is Talking About Honestly Ninety percent of Claude Code’s codebase was written by Claude Code itself. Boris Churny, the engineer who leads the Claude Code project at Anthropic, has not personally written […]
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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 Hitchhiker’s Guide to Production Outage Triage with Amazon Bedrock
Andrew Baker — andrewbaker.ninja — 13 June 2026 How to use a large language model inside your own AWS account to interrogate your infrastructure while it is on fire So your production environment is throwing errors at 2 AM, your on-call engineer is staring at a wall of CloudWatch noise, and someone in the incident […]
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Why Bolting AI onto Existing Org Structures Always Fails
There is an old urban legend, immortalised as one of the original Darwin Award nominations, about a man who bolted a JATO unit to a 1967 Chevrolet Impala. JATO stands for Jet Assisted Take Off. It is a solid fuel rocket designed to give heavy military transport aircraft the extra thrust they need to leave […]
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MCP in 2026: Rise, Security Flaws & What Comes Next
A plain language guide for AI practitioners navigating a rapidly shifting landscape 1. Introduction In November 2024, Anthropic quietly released an open source specification called the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Within twelve months it had become one of the most talked about technologies in the AI industry. By early 2026 it was simultaneously celebrated as […]
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The Open Source Earthquake: DeepSeek V4 and What It Means for AI Pricing
Published 25 April 2026 Executive Summary DeepSeek released preview versions of its V4 model family on 24 April 2026, one day after OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 and in the same week Claude Opus 4.7 arrived. The timing was not coincidental. V4-Pro, the flagship, carries 1.6 trillion total parameters with 49 billion active per token, scores 80.6% […]
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Why Is NVIDIA the Most Valuable Company in the World? The AI Stack, the CUDA Moat, and the Threats That Could Unseat It
Andrew Baker | Group CIO, Capitec Bank | May 2026 NVIDIA sits at the top of the most important value chain in the world right now. But it does not build the machines that make its chips, it does not own the factories, and it does not fabricate the transistors. So why is it worth […]
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The Full Context Product: How Agentic AI Redefines the Relationship Between Teams and the Software They Own
A variation on the dark factory thesis. Humans remain, humans are accountable, and what changes is everything else. 1. The Team That Memory Built There is a certain kind of organisational structure that forms not by design but by accumulated necessity. Take a low code onboarding system. It changes twice a year. It breaks twice […]
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How to Set Up MCP Filesystem Access in Claude Desktop
If you use Claude Desktop to edit code, write patches, or build plugin files, you have probably hit the same wall I did: Claude runs in a sandboxed Linux container. It cannot read or write files on your Mac. Every session resets. There is no shared folder. You end up copy pasting sed commands or […]
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Run Bash MCP in Claude Desktop: 1-Script Setup Guide
Andrew Baker | 01 Mar 2026 | andrewbaker.ninja You want one script that does everything. No digging around in settings. No manually editing JSON. No clicking Developer, Edit Config. Just run it once and Claude Desktop can execute bash commands through an MCP server. This guide gives you exactly that. 1. Why You Would Want […]
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