Living in the future
Personal essays, observations and strategic perspectives on the cognitive, technological and human shifts shaping the next generation of organisations, ventures and society.
Personal observations, analyses, and strategic perspectives.
The End of Prompt Engineering
As models reason better, the need for complex prompt chains diminishes.
Human-in-the-Loop, Properly Defined
Human-in-the-loop was never about having a person nearby. It was about designing exactly where judgment enters a system — and most companies that claim to have it have only the nearby part.
Complementarity-Aware Collaboration
Most AI training teaches people to use the tool. Almost none teaches the harder, rarer skill: knowing, in real time, whether your judgment or the system's is more likely to be right.
What Is Human-Centered AI?
Human-Centered AI says what an AI system should optimise for: human needs, trust, inclusion. It doesn't say how an organisation has to be architected for that to actually hold once the system ships. That gap is the whole job.
The Infrastructure of Intelligence
A comprehensive analysis of the technical, organisational, and human infrastructure required to deploy AI effectively in enterprise environments.
Agentic Workflows — Beyond Chat
The shift from chat-based AI to agentic systems represents the most significant architectural change since cloud computing.
Building the AI-Native Firm
It is not about adding AI to current workflows. It is about redesigning from the ground up.
Karpathy vs McKinsey: why I trust those who get their hands dirty
There is a fundamental divide in how we talk about AI. Karpathy has scars from making AI work when lives are on the line. McKinsey sells confidence they have not earned. That difference matters — especially when you are the one paying for the transformation.