For two years the model question had one answer: use the best available. That was the correct answer when the gap between the frontier and everything else was wide, and when most of what people asked …
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When Your Internal AI Coding Platform Stops Being Shadow IT
A year ago, the AI coding decision was which subscription to expense. Cursor or Copilot, seat count, done. Now a handful of companies, including mine, write most of their code with agents they built …
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The Evaluation Harness Comes Before the Agent
You would not run an A/B test where you choose the success metric after seeing which variant won. The result would be meaningless and everyone would know it. But somehow, this seems to be the standard …
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Steering, Not Rowing: Ambition Is the New Bottleneck
For most of your career, the way to become more valuable was to row harder and better than the people around you. Ship more. Ship cleaner. Be the one whose work came back with the fewest corrections. …
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Your Five-Year Migration Is Now a Two-Week Job
Every engineering organisation has a list of migrations it has been planning to get to for years. A framework two major versions behind. A test library the vendor abandoned. A deprecated internal API …
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AI Transformation Is a Loop, Not a Programme
Open the slide deck for almost any AI transformation: you have seen it before. There is a maturity assessment. There is a target operating model. There is a projected return built on assumptions …
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