Reducing AI Risk with Simple Rules
The AI conversation right now is split down the middle, and I think many people on both sides are way off the mark. On one side, you’ve got people who think AI is the answer to everything – the hype, the…
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Building a Live Speech to Text AI
One thing you may not know about me is that when I run workshops or live demos for organisations, I always give the organiser explicit permission – twice – to interrupt me. Here’s why: I have ADHD. I have it…
Year of the Harness
If you have been paying any attention to AI over the last three years, you have probably been told – repeatedly – that what matters most is the model. Which company has the biggest ‘brain’. Which benchmark…
Labs: Building a Production-Ready AI Project Manager in 12 Hours
HumanSpark Labs Report: The Spark Project Management Build A real build session: strategic conversation to working system in one evening, with no human code written. This report documents a real build…
The Math Behind AI’s Environmental Impact
I wrote a few months ago about the real price of AI – the ethical complexity, the environmental footprint, the fact that my own pirated book is probably in the training data of tools I now use and recommend….
AI Doesn’t Care
Four Things AI Still Can’t Do The latest AI “reasoning” models are a massive improvement. Gemini 3, ChatGPT 5.x and especially Claude Opus 4.5 – these systems are amazing. But they still have hard limits,…
Why “95% of AI Pilots Fail” Is the Wrong Lesson
Why “95% of AI Pilots Fail” Is the Wrong Lesson The headline failures make for good reading. They’re just teaching you the wrong things. You’ve probably seen the stat: 95% of AI pilots fail. The most recent…
Why Boring is Interesting
Boring is interesting A couple of weeks ago I published my ‘Boring AI’ Manifesto. I had a bit of fun with it, but I believe it’s important. It’s a core idea in my upcoming book, The AI Pilot Handbook. A few…
What the Hell Is “Data”?
One thing that really frustrates me about AI consultants – and software engineers – is when they say things like: “You need to know your data” “You need to have clean data” “You need to know where your data…
The Boring AI Manifesto
Boring is underrated. I like my elevators to be boring. I like my seatbelt to be boring. The best AI projects are the ones nobody talks about. They just work. I want technology to do the boring work so you…