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1. The narrow claim This is not a case for replacing Claude across the enterprise. Most of what several thousand ordinary employees do with AI is low volume and highly…
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…
A deep technical walkthrough of Amazon S3 Files: what it actually is, where it earns its complexity, setup scripts, monitoring, costs and the production gotchas that will bite you if…
1. Kindness is only proven when the conversation becomes difficult A few weeks ago I wrote that kindness is the most important quality in a leader because, without it, everything…
1. A disclosed bias I spent twelve years writing algorithmic trading software before any of the cloud infrastructure work. That is where the bias actually comes from, not from EC2.…
1. A definition, and the email that prompted it Moronic inference is the organisational habit of constructing highly confident explanations from evidence that is far too weak to justify them.…
Read more →1. The claim in outline Liquidators of Rockfire Capital and Rockfire Investment Finance are pursuing NatWest subsidiary RBS for roughly £250m, alleging the bank processed payments that let businessman Liam…
Published: June 2026 | Author: Andrew Baker Running large language models locally is no longer the exclusive domain of hyperscalers. Startups are increasingly asking a deceptively simple question: should we…
Ask ten CIOs what Cloudflare does and you will get ten different answers, ranging across DDoS protection, CDN, zero trust networking, DNS, WAF, reverse proxy, and bot management, and every…
AI is not eliminating work so much as changing what organisations optimise for. Companies that once grew by adding layers of management, reporting and coordination are beginning to grow by…
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