Oct 2025
A write up of an event celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test, noting that while modern AI can often appear human in conversation, the test’s focus on imitation may be outdated. An impressive array of speakers and panellists called for new frameworks to better assess understanding and intelligence in today’s AI systems.
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July 2025
Many organisations face “data chaos”: siloed, duplicated, stale and ungoverned assets, plus batch-only pipelines that starve AI models of timely context. The remedy requires foundations, not another tool. With trustworthy, well-modelled and accessible data, AI moves from proofs of concept to durable, measurable business outcomes.
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April 2025
AI code generation tools are profoundly reshaping how software is built. This post reflects on my hands-on experiences with tools like Lovable, Cursor, and ChatGPT, compares design-led and engineering-led approaches, and introduces a combined workflow that combines these tools to deliver high quality working applications fast.
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Sept 2024
At the SaaS CTO Unconference in London in September 2024, a panel explored whether AI is a lasting transformation or just hype. Drawing on tech history, I outlined four criteria for identifying transformative technology such as AI: user value, ease of integration, platform flexibility, and openness. AI’s impact will ultimately depend on collective choices we make. This post also introduces the POMIC framework and the concept of POMIC shapes. The ideas here have since evolved into the AI Future Ready framework.
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