March 5, 2026
London Has Everything Except the Proof
London's structural advantages for AI are real. The question nobody's asking is why those same advantages haven't fixed productivity since 2008.
3 min readAI and EconomyMarket Narratives
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A dedicated publishing area for weekly AI signal: commentary, public opinions, and practical analysis for professionals making decisions.
March 5, 2026
Three Engineers, a Million Lines of Code, and the Part They Forgot to Mention
OpenAI's harness engineering post contains a genuine insight about documentation as infrastructure. It is also, unmistakably, a piece of marketing.
3 min readAI HypeAI and Software
March 3, 2026
If Your Harness Is Getting More Complex, Something Is Wrong
A thorough survey of how top AI agents are actually built makes the case that the harness is the product. The data underneath tells a more complicated story.
3 min readAI and SoftwareDeveloper Tools
March 3, 2026
It's Easy to Molt When You Own the Shell
A CEO's essay on identity and AI adaptation sounds right — until you notice the seventeen jobs lost get one paragraph and the freedom of letting go gets six.
2 min readLabour MarketAI Adoption
March 3, 2026
'Nobody Reads the Code' Is Not the Flex You Think It Is
Code review is drowning under AI-generated output. The proposed fix — specs, agents, and layered verification — diagnoses a real problem then overshoots the landing.
3 min readAI and SoftwareDeveloper Tools
March 3, 2026
The Elves Don't Do QA
A viral thread says AI agents can work while you sleep, turning idle hours into output. Coal doesn't hallucinate. Spare bedrooms don't need code review.
3 min readAI HypeAI Adoption
March 3, 2026
The Gap Was the Product
Agent frameworks filled the space between good-enough models and missing infrastructure. Now the labs are building down and automation platforms are building up.
3 min readAI and SoftwareDeveloper Tools
March 3, 2026
The Screenwriter's Fallacy
AI became a power story, not a technology story. Framing it as Act Two implies an Act Three. There is no evidence that's coming.
3 min readMarket NarrativesAI Hype
March 3, 2026
The Secret Is That You Already Knew
A viral guide to agentic engineering buries useful advice on context management inside an ascension narrative that contradicts its own thesis.
3 min readAI and SoftwareDeveloper Tools
March 3, 2026
Twenty Hours of Not Asking the Hard Questions
A weekend guide to Perplexity Computer tests every prompt and none of the failure modes. The most useful thing a tool review can tell you is where it breaks.
2 min readAI HypeAI Adoption
March 2, 2026
The Judgment Is Yours
A transactional lawyer built his entire practice around Claude. The real insight isn't about prompting — it's that judgment is the asset AI makes more valuable.
3 min readAI AdoptionAI Strategy
February 26, 2026
Fifty MVPs and Counting
A tooling checklist for shipping MVPs fast, written by someone who optimises for handoff speed. Useful advice — just remember you're the one living with the choices.
3 min readAI and SoftwareIndie Hackers
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