Category: Artificial Intelligence

  • Finding the Joy of Building Again

    I haven’t written serious code in almost ten years. Not because I stopped caring about software. I moved into leadership, into strategy, into the kind of work where your output is measured in decisions made and teams unblocked rather than commits pushed. The tools changed. The muscle memory faded. The joy of building something from…

  • Your next direct report might be an AI agent. Are you ready to manage it?

    Something shifted quietly in the past few months, and most leaders have not yet caught up with what it means. AI agents are no longer a concept on a roadmap. They are being deployed into real workflows right now — triaging requests, updating records, drafting proposals, routing decisions, executing multi-step processes with minimal human oversight.…

  • The hidden cost of AI productivity: we’re skipping the part where people actually learn

    Every organisation celebrating its AI productivity gains is also, quietly, depriving its junior people of the experiences that make them leaders. Nobody is talking about this yet. But they will. Here is what is happening. AI is extraordinarily good at handling the messy, repetitive, lower-order work — the drafting, the analysis, the summarising, the first-pass…

  • Can AI Replace a SOC?

    When Anthropic announced Claude for Security, I had a few messages almost immediately: “So… is this the end of the SOC?” Short answer? No. Longer answer? Something far more interesting is happening. And if you’re leading cyber, digital, or risk — this matters. We’re Asking the Wrong Question “Can AI replace a SOC?” is catchy, but it misses…