Tagged: leadership
12 posts
The Desktop Supercollider
For most of the history of enterprise software, the architect was a theorist by force. The cost of being an experimentalist was too high. That just changed.
When the Manager Stops Routing
Agentic AI relieves managers of routing. Delivery sits with teams, standards with governance, capacity with management.
What I Got Wrong Building With AI
Three projects built with AI agents. One worked, one collapsed, one held. The variable was not the technology. It was the shape that existed before the code.
When the Architect Picks Up the Hammer
Something shifts when a senior technologist stops directing software to be built and starts building it himself, with AI as the pair. After four decades in software and twenty years away from the keyboard, the distance between intent and implementation finally collapsed. This is what that felt like, and what it revealed about experience, craft, and the future of building
The Decline of the Org Chart
For most of the last century, the challenge of organizing large groups of people around shared work produced a consistent answer: the hierarchy. Not because anyone designed it to be optimal, but because it solved five distinct coordination problems at once, and nothing simpler could do the same. Those problems are now separable. The structure built to solve them all at once is beginning to come apart, unevenly and in ways most commentary misses.
AI and the post-modern, modern data stack
of AI-powered applications and agentic AI is dramatically redefining the demands placed on data stacks. Rather than becoming irrelevant, the modern data stack is a major consideration as organisations…
Want to become a CTO? Here’s the hard truth
For anyone aiming to become a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) that means working out how to build the technical, strategic, and leadership skills to stay relevant and in demand throughout their career.…
Ambient ERP – breaking free of the enterprise software triad
Imagine a future where your back-office applications are context-aware, operating in the background, only surfacing what matters when it matters. Thanks to progress being made in artificial intelligence (AI) this is no longer a fanciful dream.
Why Agentic AI Should Be an Evolution, Not a Revolution
U.S. private AI investment grew to $109.1 billion in 2024 – leading to an “AI arms race” in which many businesses scrambled to be the first to announce shiny new capabilities. But did some tech…
Getting Ready for the AI-Fuelled Office
Everyone is talking about the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) is having (or is going to have) on the way we work. What a lot of these studies do not try to understand is what this will mean…
Programming won’t go away but extensibility is a worthwhile substitute for many tasks
Programming has made more farewells than Frank Sinatra , but the difference being that “Old Blue Eyes” eventually played one final concert, whereas programming isn’t going to go away.
Data fundamentals first, automation second
There is a lot of excitement about technology’s potential to automate tasks making our lives easier and freeing us up to do more fun things. ChatGPT is the latest in a long line of excited debates –…