Writing on enterprise AI, SaaS, and technology adoption.
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15 Jun 2026
On Sunday, Switzerland voted down a proposal to cap the population at 10 million. About 55% said no. I'm relieved, and I think the country dodged something genuinely damaging. This is direct democracy working as it should. Any group can launch a popular initiative with 100,000 signatures, the partie
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13 Jun 2026
This morning I woke to an alert: a task I’d left running overnight on Claude couldn’t complete. The reason it failed? US government intervention. The USA issued an export-control directive requiring Anthropic to suspend access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign nationals, inside or outside t
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12 Jun 2026
Having had access to computers since the age of eight, back in 1991, I like to think I’ve seen a thing or two when it comes to IT. Then you spend a day at Cloud Native Zürich and remember how much there still is to learn. That, for me, is the point of events like this. Bright people in the same room
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11 Jun 2026
ChatGPT lost it when I wanted to explain CPSC to an Italian friend. It started with correct translation and a sensible structure. Then, mid-sentence, it collapsed into multilingual noise: fragments of Russian, Hindi, Chinese, emoji, and strings that looked uncomfortably like internal system artefact
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10 Jun 2026
The Claude capability headlines are everywhere today, but it is the architecture decisions that will matter for years Halfway through one of my coding projects, a notification for an app update popped up. The AI I was working with had changed under my feet. Anthropic released Fable 5, the first publ
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09 Jun 2026
Apple spent two years looking like it was losing the AI race. It may simply have been running a different one. This week, at its developer conference, Apple took the stage and unveiled a rebuilt Siri AI to the usual applause. Smarter, more conversational, and finally closer to the assistant it promi
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08 Jun 2026
Most "AI adoption" right now is a Copilot licence and some prayers. It comes bundled with the M365 contract your company already has. An admin switches it on with a click, and hopefully someone on the team works out what to do with it. No strategy involved. This is not just a feeling. A new AWS-comm
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07 Jun 2026
Do you know what a “slop puppet” is? I was chatting recently with an AI expert, my friend and doppelgänger @Gregg Bayes-Brown, about a very specific kind of AI slop: the corporate AI person giving a talk that is clearly AI-written. Nothing undermines an AI literacy message quite like outsourcing it
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06 Jun 2026
Is your company in contravention of Article 4 of the EU AI Act? The high-risk AI deadline with a €35 million price tag has slipped towards 2027. However, the obligation that should worry many SMEs has already been live for over a year. Article 4 of the EU AI Act requires providers and deployers to e
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Vibe coding is seductive. Until the moment shit hits the fan. Describe what you want, let the AI write it, then ship. No need to understand the code underneath. For the most part, that works. Because the one thing AI cannot reliably do is rescue you from itself. When the model confidently rewrites a
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