AI has made every individual step of building a product faster: research, requirements, documentation, prototyping. It has not yet made the product faster to build. The gap between those two facts is …
Why AI Adoption Really Stalls
The people who hang back longest in AI adoption programmes are rarely the least capable. I have noticed this pattern repeat across teams: AI adoption resistance concentrates in the experienced, the …
The Living Standard
The most dangerous state in codification as a practice is not absence. It is the standard that was accurate six months ago and hasn't been touched since. Teams that have done the work of codification …
The Codification Advantage
Your competitors are using the same models you are. Probably the same tools too. If you are waiting for a better AI to give you an edge, you are waiting for something that will arrive for everyone …
AI Won’t Save the Kingdoms We Built
There is a version of the AI transformation conversation I keep hearing from senior leaders, and it goes roughly like this: AI can surface dependencies, summarise context, reduce the cost of …
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The IC Renaissance
For most of my career, your impact grew as you increased your team's headcount. If you wanted to do more, you had to manage more. Senior meant managing people who managed people. The org chart was the …