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There's a moment, when you've worked long enough in traditional finance, when something quietly stops making sense. For me, it wasn't dramatic. There was no single breaking point, just a growing discomfort. I spent over five years as a software engineer building systems for
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I spent four generations on a Lost Garden scene where a character was supposed to be grieving. My prompt said exactly that: grieving. The model gave me a woman standing still, blinking, doing nothing in particular. Four tries, same nothing. The prompt wasn’t vague. It was precise about the
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URL normalization, media variants, and the backend boundaries that kept the integration maintainable I recently built a backend workflow that accepts public Twitter/X status links and turns them into predictable media records. The first prototype appeared to need only three steps: accept a URL, resolve the post, and return
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A new company has a fundamental credibility problem: it needs a history to build a reputation, but it often needs a reputation to create the opportunities that produce that history. I think you can partially solve this by deliberately building the public evidence around a company before its reputation has
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Exploring the stories, trends, and insights shaping the world of recognition and accolades. Welcome to Recognized: a new publication exploring the systems, stories, and strategies behind awards and recognition. I wanted to take a moment in this first issue of recognized to honor the lasting impact of Todd Cochrane on
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Three iterations, a web platform with two or three users, and roughly 1,080 hours of manual work taken on by an assistant. A story about building solo and getting to know my actual audience. My brief for introducing AI at a conservative company was fairly open-ended: “Go on, show
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In January 2026 Anthropic published a retrospective on multi-agent systems that described what I'd been running for a year, and described it as the mistake. Their wording, near enough: teams build elaborate multi-agent systems with separate agents for planning, execution, review and iteration, only to discover that they
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way we think about warfare. Autonomous systems, AI-assisted targeting, unmanned aircraft and increasingly sophisticated weapons are moving decisions once made entirely by humans closer to machines. While writing my geopolitical techno-thriller An Unlikely War, I explored what might happen if that technological evolution went
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For the last three years, the story of AI has been told almost entirely in text. We measured progress in tokens, context windows, and benchmark scores on question-answering datasets. That framing was useful, and it produced genuinely capable systems. But it also quietly encoded an assumption worth questioning: that intelligence
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When I quit my job to build apps during the 2019 COVID pandemic, I knew it would be hard. I didn't know it would be incredibly difficult. And I never expected it to sometimes leave me in tears. One idea I had early on—when I decided to
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Outpainting can turn one AI-generated shot into 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1 without a second render. Here’s when that holds up, and when it doesn’t. You generate a shot once. Then YouTube wants it in 16:9, the short-form cut wants 9:16, and the thumbnail
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Single AI agents are powerful. Multi-agent systems are transformative. This guide builds a complete, production-ready multi-agent AI system on Amazon EKS, the exact architecture used by financial services, healthcare, and enterprise SaaS teams in 2026. Five specialised agents (Customer, Payment, Fraud, Compliance, Customer Support), a Custom Agent Router, Bedrock Guardrails,
