Context Engineering: The Skill That Actually Matters
Context engineering — not prompt engineering — is where the real leverage lives. The discipline of deciding what goes into the context window, and why.
Hybrid vs AI-Native: Why Developers Became Middle Management
In hybrid AI organisations, developers aren't above the stack — they're stuck in between it, relaying intent like middle managers in a bloated org.
The Smell of the City
Your default environment shapes your baseline. Living near nature and visiting the city beats the reverse — your normal state should be the one that restores you.
Beyond the Chat Window: UX on Steroids with LLMs
Chat is the laziest AI integration. The real opportunity is components that remember users and act on context they've already provided.
AI Maturity: A Practical Framework
A practical six-level AI maturity framework for companies adopting AI. Assess strategic clarity, data readiness, and engineering capability to find your gaps.
Fixing Agent Amnesia With Federated Memory
A-MEM's Zettelkasten-inspired approach to agent memory, and why software projects need federated memory with cross-domain linking — not one big vector database.
The Adaptive AI Coding Pipeline
Fixed pipelines over-process simple requests and under-process complex ones. An adaptive router classifies intent and dispatches to specialised workflows.
What Is AI-Native?
AI-native is more than a buzzword. It marks a real architectural shift where AI becomes the foundation, not a feature bolted on.
Mate, Take a Break: You're Not a Robot
Productivity culture destroys the spontaneous, unstructured time where creativity and connection actually happen. Become more human, not more efficient.
The AI Knows Your Client's Phone Number (And So Does Everyone Else)
RAG pipelines leak PII through prompt injection. A substitution layer swaps real data for realistic fakes before it reaches the LLM, neutralising the attack.
A CRM That Knows What It Doesn't Know
Probabilistic lead scoring with Pyro replaces brittle point systems with honest uncertainty, email fatigue modelling, and self-improving predictions.
Why Elixir Is the Perfect Agent Framework Runtime
Elixir and OTP offer actors as agents, supervision trees for failure recovery, and process mailboxes as thought logs — a natural runtime for living software.