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Catastrophic system outages are never purely accidental because the conditions enabling them accumulate quietly over time, embedded within organizational structures, incentive misalignments, and suppressed warning signals. Like destructive human behaviour,…
Read more →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…
Most organisations deploying AI are flying blind. They have a model, a prompt, and a vague sense that it seems to work. They ran it past a few people internally,…
Read more →1. The Most Addictive Technology I Have Ever Used Agentic AI is the most addictive technology I have ever used, not because it numbs the mind or encourages passive consumption,…
Read more →Updated June 2026 to cover Auto mode GA, the classifier architecture, and a new script for tuning classifier false positives. When Claude Code displays “Auto mode not available for this…
Read more →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…
Read more →Leadership · Culture · Strategy | Andrew Baker | May 2026 | 14 min read There is a distinction that almost nobody in corporate life is willing to draw clearly,…
Read more →Leadership · Technology · Strategy | Andrew Baker | May 2026 | 12 min read There is a diagram I keep coming back to. It is deceptively simple: two lines,…
Read more →The economics crossed the tipping point quietly. Most enterprises missed it. The ones who noticed are not going back. 1. How Defaults Become Legacy Every technology that eventually becomes legacy…
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…
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