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If Story Points Don't Mean Much, What Do We Measure Instead?
A few weeks ago I wrote about what happens when story points stop meaning much. The basic argument was that agentic coding is changing the unit by…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: the porch light Agent that knows I'm coming home
This weekend’s project continued with the simple idea - as I get close to home, switch on the porch light - but let an AI agent 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘸…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Using Jev for Prompt Injection Attack Detection
Jumping on the Jev bandwagon this week. I've been testing different ways to stop prompt injection attacks from reaching AI agents (repo in the…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: The Bulb That Said No (and some OpenSpec)
I'm building an agent that acts in the physical world - simple one out of the gate, turns the porch light on when I'm nearly home taking into account…
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When Story Points Stop Meaning Much
Agentic coding is changing something more fundamental than developer productivity. It is changing the unit by which we should measure software…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: When the New Models Team Up
This week's experiment: my website needed a rework, and I decided to make it a two-model job.
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Teaching my phone to text back (LM Playground and Tasker)
Last weekend I gave LM Playground - the local-model setup I run on my own phone - an OpenAI-compatible interface so that anything that speaks OpenAI…
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AI and IT Departments, Part 10: IT Management Is Changing When the Tools Can Act
Over the last nine posts in this series I have looked at how Generative AI is changing different parts of an IT department: the Service Desk…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: turning my Google Pixel phone into an LLM server
A week or ago ago Brandon Laur (The White Hatter) mentioned he was curious about the local language models I have been running on my phone in LM…
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AI and IT Departments, Part 9: Infrastructure Operations Is Changing - When the Monitoring System Can Fix What It Finds
This week it is back my roots - Infrastructure and Operations and also because it may be one of the clearest examples of where the move from AI…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: SDD (spec-kit) in Claude Code Web - Part3, Making It Portable
Part 1 got Spec Kit working inside Claude Code's web client. Part 2 ran the full pipeline against a brownfield repo, ending in a PR. This week…
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AI and IT Departments, Part 8: When the PMO Can Challenge the Green Status
This week I have been mulling over the Project Management Office (PMO) and where AI could make a useful difference. Years ago, I had an excellent…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Spec Driven Development in Claude Code Web - Part 2, Actually Running It
Last week I got Spec Kit installed into a real repo and working with Claude Code's web client - no terminal, just a browser. This week I ran the…
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AI and IT Departments, Part 7: Software Engineering is Changing - When Software Development Becomes Agent-Executable
In an earlier article in this series, I asked what happens to the Business Analyst role when describing the thing increasingly starts to create the…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Spec Driven Development in Claude Code Web
I spent today working on getting Spec Driven Development via Speckit, deployed into an existing repo to use via Claude Code Web. The premise seems…
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AI and IT Departments, Part 6: Project Management Is Moving from Administration to Orchestration
his week I have been mulling over what happens to project management when the project-management system starts doing some of the project management…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: DiffusionGemma and The Bug That Wasn't Mine
Follow-up to last weekend's diffusion model experiment - because one part of it deserves its own coffee. After clearing a CUDA mismatch, a 4-bit…
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AI and IT Departments, Part 5: Business Intelligence Is Becoming a Decision (and Action?) Interface
I have been thinking about what happens to Business Intelligence when people no longer need to know which dashboard to open, which filter to apply or…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: - DiffusionGemma on a 24GB GPU (yup, still gemma)
Grab a big coffee - last week I said '𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 26𝘉 𝘔𝘰𝘌 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭.' Google…
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AI and IT Departments, Part 4: Business Analysts Have a New Decision Tree
I have been thinking about what happens when we take the changing role of the Business Analyst (BA) I discussed in Part 3, and how it applies to…
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Sunday Coffee & Code - Claude Code Terminal and Local Gemma4 (yup, more Gemma)
Not a lot of time this weekend so grab your coffee - this week mixed '𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭?' (which, tbh…
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AI and IT Departments, Part 3: The BA Role Is Moving Upstream and Downstream
In this third article on how AI is affecting IT functions, I consider the role of Business Analysts (BA's) in IT departments and how quickly, and how…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Google OAuth, Three Models, One Working App
Grab your coffee - this week mixed 'learn something new' with 'watch three AI models handle parts of the same job very differently.' (It was a long…
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AI and IT Departments, Part 2 - From Tickets to Actions: How GenAI Is Changing the Service Desk
This is the second post in a series on Generative AI and it's impact on Information Technology departments. I chose Service Desk as that's the point…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Dry Run of the Vibe Coding Done Properly Course, and Converting FitBit data to Garmin
Today's project: run through the course with Taylor Harris and migrate ~8 years of Fitbit data into Garmin after switching devices. The problem to…
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AI and IT Departments, Part 1 - A First Look at the AI Maturity of IT Department Tools
I have been thinking about the tool landscape that sits underneath modern IT departments. Not just ITSM tools, but also developer tools and…
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Deterministic Where Possible. AI Where Beneficial. Agents Only Where Necessary.
I have been thinking about something that comes up in conversations with organisations, technology teams, and developers - there seems to be a bit of…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Even More Prompt Injection Testing - Gemma4 Continues to Impress Me
Poured a fresh cup today and went back into the prompt-injection testing rabbit hole. This week’s work was less about the firebreak agent itself…
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Why IT Departments Matter More as AI Gets More Autonomous
I have been pondering, and continue to ponder, the role of IT in AI adoption and I think it's about to change - especially in it's relationship with…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Last week the RFP Marketplace PoC worked. This weeks was all about improving outputs (prompt improvements and testing Gemma4)
Last week’s dry run proved the PoC worked. A buyer could issue an RFP, a supplier could upload their company knowledge, the responder agent could…
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Canada’s AI Strategy in a Faster-Moving World
We have started to see where Canada wants to go with AI after seeing some early insights into our countries AI strategy. It's great news that we're…
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Sunday Coffee & Code - RFP Marketplace: the dry run
OK, it's Tuesday, not Sunday (I'm away on vacation). Last week I let Claude Code (Opus 4.8) loose on an idea that's been rattling around my head for…
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GenAI Did Not Replace the Consulting Work. It Changed Where my Time Went.
I recently went back and reviewed one of my early GenAI-assisted consulting engagements, not to produce a marketing number or claim some AI magic but…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Prompt Injection Attack Response, Micrososft FIDES, and why this matters
This weekend I spent more time comparing prompt injection defence approaches after seeing the Microsoft FIDES note (thanks to Eduard van Valkenburg)…
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Software Development Is Moving From Coding To Orchestration
Software development is changing, not because developers have stopped writing code and not because AI is magically replacing software teams. The more…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Today was a failure.
I had high hopes for this morning. I installed the Copilot Studio PowerCAT Kit, ran the Setup Wizard, modified the environment settings, and then…
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Agents Don’t Replace Integration. They Change Where Integration Happens
Building on my recent A2A work I decided to tackle how integration changes in an Agentic era. As organisations start experimenting with AI agents, an…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Part 2 - Success - Copilot Studio Agent to Google Agent over A2A now working
Last week I got close, but authentication stopped the experiment from working properly. This week I went back in with a slightly different approach.
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When AI Agents Need to Work Across Platforms
I still see a lot of the current AI conversation focused on which model, which platform, or which vendor an organisation should choose, which of…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Part 1 - Can Copilot Studio Agents Talk to Google Agent Studio Agents over A2A?
I have seen a video or two on this and it seemed possible but the details were thin on the ground so I thought I'd give it a shot today. The rest of…
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Quantum Is Moving From Experiment to Architecture
Last week, I wrote about my own hands-on experience with quantum machine learning, and my conclusion was fairly restrained: interesting, increasingly…
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Strategy First, Quantum Second: What Quantum Machine Learning Really Means for Business
Quantum is back in the business conversation, but usually through two very different doors. One is post-quantum cryptography, where the NCSC is clear…
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Sunday Coffee & Coding: Strategy First. Quantum ML Second
This weekends work was a machine learning process pipeline that blends classical analysis, local LLMs, Anthropic Claude Code, and IBM Quantum.
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GenAI Is Shifting Leverage: What That Means for Porter’s Five Forces and Value Chain
As I've seen new technologies in the GenAI space being released over the last few years I have pondered the effect on organisations and decided to…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Why I'm Opening Up These Codebases
I am about to make two of my codebases public. One is the multi-agent RFP responder I have posted about before (which I use to respond to RFP's). The…
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From Tasks to Processes to Roles: The Next Shift in Generative AI
A lot of GenAI discussion is still in the “help me do this task faster” phase. That made sense for the first wave. But we are now moving to something…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: from measuring model to confidence to seeing it
Last weekend I was down a logprobs rabbit hole, trying to measure model confidence a bit more honestly, this weekend was about visualising it.
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Getting Comfortable with AI Hallucinations Without Getting Casual About Risk
One of the most important mindset shifts with Generative AI is that hallucinations are not a strange side effect that appears only when a model “goes…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: trying to measure model confidence a bit more honestly - an afternoon with Claude Code and token logprops
I have been a bit uneasy for a while about asking a model to rate its own confidence (at least it's a data point). It can be useful, but it also…
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AI Literacy Is the Real Starting Point for Generative AI Adoption
Some organisations start their Generative AI journey by talking about tools, policy, governance, or risk. Those things matter. But in practice, the…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Small Models, Prompt Injection, and Fine-Tuning
Today’s experiment turned into a bit more of an odyssey than I expected. On paper, simple enough: • Test a lighter-weight multilingual model as an…
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Agentic AI and Prompt Injection: What GRC Leaders Need to Understand
As organisations move from AI assistants to more agentic workflows, the risk picture starts to change. A document is no longer just something an…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Adding a Security Agent to the RFx multi-agent pipeline
A risk with any system that ingests uploaded documents and passes extracted content through LLM-driven workflows is that the document itself may…
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From Prompting to Delegation: The Path to Digital Coworkers Is Closer Than Most Organisations Realise
Most people still think of AI in organisations as a better assistant: something you prompt, something that helps, something that saves a bit of time…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: From Google Sheets to a working web app in Google AI Studio
Today’s experiment was taking the Google Sheets/App Script and Google Cloud Run solution I’d already built and seeing how far I could push it into a…
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From Build vs. Buy to Buy, Build, Compose, or Generate on Demand
For a long time, software decisions have been framed as a fairly binary choice: do we build something ourselves, or do we buy it from a vendor? That…
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Sunday coffee & Code: Website scraping and email drafting with multi-modal AI fallback
his weekend’s experiment tackled a problem I’ve been curious about for a while. I had a request for an AI-driven, Google-based solution to scan…
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The Invisible Workforce: What has a fridge got to do with the enterprise?
We are moving from "Active AI" (where you ask a bot to do something) to "Ambient AI" (where the system anticipates the need and does it for you) …
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From RFx Documents to RFx Pipelines: Procurement in the AI Agent Era
GenAI (and especially agents) will reduce the time and effort involved in drafting RFx documents and responses. That said, the biggest constraints in…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Turning Existing Architecture Into Refactoring (with Claude Code + Gherkin)
This weekend’s experiment was conceptually simple: 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘶𝘴𝘦 “𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯” 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘢…
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When AI Agents Stop Being a Project and Start Being Headcount
A LinkedIn post from Clark University’s advancement team stopped me mid-scroll - not because “7 AI agents” is technically significant, but because…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Claude Code - Dual model repo reviews (Sonnet 4.5 vs Opus 4.6)
As there has been lots of posting around the Anthropic Opus 4.6 model I decided to get around to a full analysis of 𝗺𝘆 𝗥𝗙𝗣 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 to…
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GenAI at Work - Listening to Concerns and Leading with Clarity
Rolling out Generative AI in the workplace is more about people than platforms. Over the past year and half, I’ve helped a number of organisations…
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Sunday coffee & Code: RFP Automation - Database Schemas with Claude Code + a Design Shift
This week I re-asserted an architectural decision - and it drove some database work (I went with Postgres).
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Agentic Coding Is a Power Tool. Don’t Use It Like a Glue Gun.
Agentic coding tools (like Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex agents) are making it ridiculously easy to turn an idea into working software. That’s…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Successful End-to-End RFP Generation Run (Web UI + Multi-Agent Orchestration)
This week I got a clean end-to-end run of my RFP Factory: upload through the Web UI, multi-agent orchestration does the heavy lifting, and a complete…
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GenAI Adoption Opinions Seem Polarized - Pragmatism Will Win
If you follow the GenAI conversation closely, it can feel like whiplash - like there is no agreement. One day it’s “AI is rewriting the economy,” the…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: More OpenRAG + a UI layer for my agents
Today was a two-track build day: getting deeper into OpenRAG, and putting a simple UI in front of my agent stack.
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Claude Cowork - Before You Install an AI “Coworker”: Treat Agentic Tools Like Privileged Access
The newest wave of “desktop automation” tools look genuinely useful - and materially different from the assistants we’ve gotten used to. Tools like…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: It's alive!!! (& stable)
This week focused on performance benchmarking, architectural consolidation, and refining the quality of the automated response across the 5 agents…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: RAG improvements, and a few detours
Most of my recent Coffee & Code time has been going into one very specific thing, improving the RAG layer behind my Microsoft Agent Framework–based…
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Risk × Friction: How Much Human Oversight Should You Remove with GenAI?
GenAI is an accelerant. It speeds up decisions, output creation, and information flow, often without strengthening the system underneath. And many…
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Sunday Coffee & Coding: Agent overload?
This week’s Sunday Coffee & Coding was less about shiny new features and more about approach. The RFP Response Agent that uses RAG to ground its…
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How I Cut Drafting RFP Responses from Hours and Days to Minutes with Multi-Agent Orchestration
Responding to RFPs used to feel like running a marathon (it's just as painful as being on the RFP assessment team) - days of effort, multiple people…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Agent 6 is online, RAG improvements are on their way.
Less time available this week than usual but still have progress.
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Claude Code charges ahead!!!
Today's job was to split the existing PoC into a multi-agent system, making the RFP Responder system easier to manage, understand conceptually…
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GenAI Is a Powerful Hammer - Not Everything is a Nail
Generative AI is everywhere and it’s tempting to reach for it whenever something feels messy, slow, or frustrating. But when a tool is this powerful…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Procurement Automation: RFP Agent Factory Progress Update
Last week, I shared the first working version of my offline PoC RFP Agent Factory - using Microsoft Agent Framework, Ollama, ChromaDB and Docling MCP…
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When Prompts Feel Like Programming Blindfolded
After more than a year, on and off, building agents across LangFlow, Microsoft Agent Framework, and Copilot Studio - from PoCs to my own real-world…
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GenAI Workflows - Sometimes Friction is Good (… and systems are fragile)
One of the challenges about GenAI adoption is simply getting started: picking tools, running pilots, training staff, and rolling out a plan. Another…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Procurement Improvements: Building an Offline RFP Response and RFP Assessment Agent Factory with Microsoft Agent Framework + Ollama + MCP Docling + RAG
A little while back, I posted about an experiment: running the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) entirely offline on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2…
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Reading LLMs Like Patients: What DSM-5 Can Teach Us About AI Behaviour
Most of the time, when we talk about large language models (LLMs), we end up in the weeds of training data and parameter counts. Useful if you’re a…
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GenAI for Small Business: Why the Adoption Journey Looks Different
All organisations seem to be dealing with the same question - “Where do we even start with GenAI?” But the context behind that question is very…
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Could Microsoft’s Researcher Agent Signal the End of My Copilot Studio M365 Research Agents?
In the ever changing world of enterprise GenAI, the new Researcher Agent functionality in Microsoft 365 Copilot started me questioning whether I…
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RFP Automation and Local AI: What Microsoft’s New Agent Framework (MAF) Means for Business
I’ve been experimenting with Microsoft's new Agent Framework (MAF) - but instead of connecting to cloud systems, I’ve been running it entirely…
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From Cells to Chat - Excel Agent vs. M365 Analyst Agent (Same Boston Crime Stats, Two Very Different Conversations)
Last week I explored the Boston Crime Statistics dataset (~260,000 rows) using Excel Agent Mode, which lives within Excel. This week I revisited the…
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Sunday Coffee & Code: Running the new Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) Completely Offline - with Ollama + Docling via MCP
I’ve been experimenting with the Microsoft's new MAF - but with a twist. Instead of using cloud models or online APIs, I set out to see whether MAF…
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Boston Crime Stats Revisited - Excel Labs Agent Mode Does The Job.
Earlier this year I compared Google Colab and Excel Copilot for analyzing Boston Crime Statistics (Google Colab vs Excel Copilot). This time I tried…
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From Formulas to Conversations: How Excel’s Agent Mode Will Redefine Data Analytics
It used to be great to find others that 'spoke Excel' - understood the intricacies of the various lookup formulas or when to use index...match. I…
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2025 Was Supposed to Be the Year of Agents - Is 2026 the Turning Point?
Back in 2024 (it seems so long ago now) I wrote about Agents (links below) and cautioned about how early we were in their evolution. Now, almost a…
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The Real Test of GenAI: Are We Solving Problems or Just Playing with Tech?
I've spent the past few months experimenting and researching here and there with tiny and small language models, e.g. running log analysis on edge…
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AI Velocity Gaps: Tech, Law, and Business Divergence
Three critical components of the AI ecosystem are accelerating in different directions with no gravity to bind them. Technology development races…
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Make GenAI Stick: Why Your Organization Needs a Community of Practice
Your team just ran a successful GenAI pilot – but how do you keep the momentum going? Too often, early wins fade without a way to spread knowledge…
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Not All Copilot Studio Agents Are Equal: How to Get the Best SharePoint Answers
Imagine giving two employees the same task, but one has all the right tools and the other doesn’t. You’d get very different results. I experienced…
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When Tiny Language Models Meet Machine Learning: Smarter Insights from Sensor Data
Every business that relies on equipment (often in remote or inhospitable environments) knows the challenge: sensors produce oceans of numbers…
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Unlock the Power of Small: Fine-Tuning Gemma 3 270M (A Business Perspective)
We're all familiar with the massive, powerful language models that run on vast server farms. What if the next big breakthrough in AI isn't about…
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Tiny Language Models, Big Impact: Why Google’s Gemma3 270M Matters for Business
Big AI models often steal the spotlight, but sometimes the smartest move is going smaller. Google’s new Gemma3 270M shows just how powerful a…
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GenAI Skills Gap: Why Businesses Can’t Wait for Education Institutions
As educational establishments seemingly wrestle with how, or if, Generative AI (GenAI) should be formally integrated into their curricula, the…
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GenAI Training Falling Short? Why an Exploratory Mindset Beats Just "Knowing How to Use It"
Generative AI is becoming a staple in the modern workplace - but something’s not clicking. Despite the rollout of training programs and hands-on…
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Why embedded AI features may already be in your tools and how to manage the risk
You didn’t sign up for an AI platform but suddenly, your HR tool summarises resumes. Your file-sharing service suggests email replies and your CRM is…
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The Ground Keeps Shifting: Why GenAI Feels So Unsettling Right Now
If you've been using GenAI tools like Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT in your day-to-day work, you've probably had this experience: something that used…
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Unlock Your Legacy Code: The GenAI Shortcut for BAs & Devs
It happened to me a quite a few years ago when I resurrected some of my C code from the 90's and brought it up to date and if you're a Business…
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Momentum Over Magnitude - Rolling Out GenAI the Lean Way
When it comes to Generative AI, many organisations feel overwhelmed, that they need a massive, enterprise-wide initiative to get started, but you…
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Stay Focused: You’re Solving a Business Problem, Not Chasing the Next AI Trend
Being immersed in the world of AI can feel like being caught in a whirlwind, every week brings a new model, a fresh feature, or a must-try tool and…
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Canada's AI Legislative Landscape: Navigating the Future.
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries globally, Canada finds itself at a critical point in AI regulation. With the recent…
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GenAI’s Hidden Risk: Doing the Same Work Faster and Falling Behind - Move from the To-Do list to the Should-do list.
I've seen it in so many organisations, that growing pile of Should-Do projects gathering dust while teams scramble through endless To-Do lists under…
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GenAI Data Analysis: Google Colab’s Gemini vs. Excel Copilot — Which One Should You Use for Conversational Data Analytics?
AI assistants are now integrated into the data tools you use daily, helping to reveal the stories and patterns in your data with natural language…
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Why Deep Research AI Models Are the New Power Tool for Business Professionals
I wrote about Deep research models back in February and since then I have been actively integrating them into my business processes (both ChatGPT and…
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Existing Skills, New Frontier: How Ops Pros Will Thrive in the Age of AI
The headlines are buzzing with Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (GenAI), and it's easy to think you need a whole new toolkit to stay relevant…
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Fine-Tuning for the Rest of Us (sort of): How Microsoft Copilot Studio Just Made AI Customisation a Whole Lot Easier
Microsoft's recent Build 2025 announcements have brought some massive updates to the whole GenAI Copilot platform. One of the most exciting features…
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Is Your Data 'Good Enough' for Generative AI decision making? Spoiler: It Might Be!
Generative AI (GenAI) is promising to reshape how we work and innovate. Yet, many organisations hesitate, wondering, "Is our data perfect enough?"…
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Revolutionise Your Presentations: How Microsoft Copilot in PowerPoint Saves You Hours
We've all been there, staring at a blank PowerPoint, knowing the information is in a document somewhere, and dreading the hours it'll take to…
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GenAI Procurement: Why It’s Not Business as Usual
Buying a Generative AI solution, whether it is a discrete or embedded GenAI solution, isn’t like buying a CRM or ERP system. It’s a whole new…
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Agent Flows in Microsoft Copilot Studio: Big Potential, But Handle with Care
As the adoption of Generative AI grows inside the enterprise, automation is entering a new phase, one that blends decision-making, integration, and…
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Why Design is About to Change: GenAI and the Future of App Development
A number of threads are converging: Coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, Codeium, Cursor, and Replit Ghostwriter are integrated directly into IDEs…
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Navigating the Future: The Importance of a Generative AI Roadmap for Your Organisation
Following on from last weeks article on GenAI readiness assessments, to harness its full potential, organisations must adopt a strategic approach…
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Unlocking the Power of Generative AI: Why Your Organisation Needs a Maturity and Readiness Assessment
Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionising industries by automating content creation, enhancing decision-making, and sparking innovation. But before…
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Problems with Business Continuity Planning? GenAI can help...
Discover how Generative AI can enhance your Business Continuity Planning (BCP). Learn how AI can identify risks, streamline plan reviews, and improve…
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Why You Need a Portfolio of GenAI Projects (With Business Cases to Match!)
Learn how to build a Generative AI portfolio and create strong business cases for AI investments. Discover strategies to maximize ROI, manage risks…
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Clear GenAI Requirements in an RFP: The Bedrock of Successful AI Implementation
Organisations will turn to external partners for GenAI implementations and the success of your GenAI project depends heavily on the clarity of your…
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Your GenAI, Your Data: How Local Models Put You Back in Control
When discussing GenAI one concern that consistently comes up is a worry around using public models and what happens to my data - there are genuine…
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The Death of SaaS as We Know It? Will AI Agents Eat Software?
Remember when we used to install software from CDs? Then SaaS arrived and changed everything. Next, we'll witness an even bigger revolution: AI…
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Unlocking Business Potential with Deep Research Models
In today's business environment, staying ahead requires not only quick decision-making but also access to comprehensive, reliable information. GenAI…
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Are AI Agents The New API's?
Before I get started on this one, it's largely a thought exercise on where we could be taking Agents and the impact on the traditional API…
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Generative AI in Project Management: Unlocking Efficiency and Innovation Across the Project Lifecycle
In today's fast-paced business environment, Project Managers are continually seeking innovative tools to enhance efficiency and deliver successful…
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Re-imagining Business Processes with Generative AI: Business Analysts are in a Unique Position
Business Analysts (BA's) are in an amazing spot right now (and in the foreseeable future). GenAI offers unprecedented opportunities to enhance…
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The Rise of Shadow GenAI and the Risk of Technical Debt
I have written previously about technical debt and GenAI choices and when you add on Shadow GenAI the situation becomes even more complex. The…
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Agentic AI Design: Balancing Autonomy and Control
Agentic AI seems to be talked about constantly and as I've talked about in previous articles design patterns matter - same thing applies to AI…
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Generative AI and Enterprise Architecture: The GenAI Impact
In preparing last weeks article I came across a series of blog posts from Ardoq (thanks to Ed Granger) that deserves more attention (catch it here)…
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The Blueprint for GenAI Success: Why GenAI Architecture Frameworks and Design Patterns Matter
While mulling over what seemed to be a lack of GenAI frameworks and design patterns last week, this post from Debmalya Biswas dropped into my feed on…
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Agentic AI - what would heading into 2025 be like without another article on Agentic AI.
We've been seeing Agentic AI hit the press a lot over the last while, especially as we head into 2025. I recently had the chance to build a PoC and…
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The GenAI Imperative: Are You Leaving Money and Time on the Table?
A little while ago I wrote an article that talked about the urgency of adopting Generative AI (GenAI). The more organisations I speak to, who then…
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Mitigating Risks in LLMs: How Observability Enhances AI Reliability
Agentic AI and LLM tools enable remarkable capabilities, from automating workflows to generating content and insights. As I spend more time in…
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It's all about the interface: How Natural Language Interfaces are Redefining the Way We Work
Mulling over why systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gamma, Gemini, Claude etc. are so successful - it's all about the interface. It isn’t just about…
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GenAI Projects: 30% will be dropped by the end of 2025.... hmmm... is that really a problem?
A week or two ago I came across an article from Business Standard that summarised a Gartner report suggesting that over 30% of GenAI projects won't…
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The Role of Unions in an Agentic AI World
The upcoming rise of Agentic AI - AI that operates more like an independent worker than a traditional tool will fundamentally transform the landscape…
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HR's Role in the World of Agentic AI: Shaping the Future of Virtual Employees
The world of AI is evolving rapidly, moving from passive tools to dynamic, "agentic" AI - technology that can operate autonomously, making decisions…
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The GenAI Skills Gap Seems Real: Are most people just getting started?
Am I living in a GenAI echo chamber? While my LinkedIn feed overflows with the latest AI breakthroughs and 'must-try' features, my experience in the…
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Navigating AI Adoption on Azure: A Practical Framework to Get Started
I couldn't believe the timing this week. As I'm working through the course material for the Microsoft AI Engineer exam a post dropped from Rajani…
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Avoiding Technical Debt in Your Generative AI Choices
Generative AI (GenAI) is full of potential, but like any rapidly evolving technology, it carries the risk of technical debt. Making the right…
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How AWS, IBM, Google, and Microsoft Are Shaping the Future of Business (AIaaS)
After completing certifications in the various platforms from IBM, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google I wanted to take a high level look…
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LLM Security - The OWASP Top 10 for LLMs & What You Need to Know
As AI continues to revolutionise industries, understanding and mitigating the security challenges around large language models (LLM's) is critical…
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There is value in that unstructured data.
For quite some time I have been concerned about the unrealised value in unstructured data - the myriad of Word documents and PDF's that contain…
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Beyond ChatGPT 4.0: Meet the Next Step in AI Assistance
(This week is an experiment to see what you think about the new ChatGPT o1-preview model output. I iterated through prompts to ask o1-preview to…
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The Urgency of Generative AI: Today’s Competitive Edge, Tomorrow’s Necessity
As I explore the AI development platforms from major providers like IBM , Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft it's clear that they are…
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Identifying AI Risks: A New Tool for Businesses
Understanding the risks in any organisation or project takes time and usually involves one or more risk workshops, more often than not starting with…
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Case Study: GenAI Unlocks Insights from Non-Profit Survey Data
In niche non-profit grant-making, informed decisions are essential. Relying on accurate data helps align granting strategies with the organisation…
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From AI Pilots to Enterprise-Wide Deployment: A Playbook for Success - An MIT Perspective
As organisations strive to scale AI across their operations, a new playbook from Massachusetts Institute of Technology emerges for those ready to…
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Elevating Software Development with AI Companions: My Game-Changing Experience with Codeium
I needed a small utility to search using the Google custom search API and then submit the results to ChatGPT's API for summarising; I leveraged the…
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AI and Change Management: OCM's crucial role in AI Projects
In a Gartner presentation by Max Goss this week the subject of Organisational Change Management (OCM) in AI projects was brought up. OCM has always…
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ISACA Announces AI Audit Toolkit: What You Need to Know and Why it's Good for System Design...
In a significant move to bolster AI governance and compliance, ISACA has unveiled its AI Audit Toolkit. This toolkit is designed to help…
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AI's Role in Reducing Risk in the SDLC (e.g. CrowdStrike)
In the wake of the recent CrowdStrike incident it's easy to become an armchair critic. For those with experience in IT, isn't it likely that such…
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Deploying AI: What Somebody Seems to be Putting Together
After posting last weeks article (Deploying AI: What nobody seems to be putting together) where I suggested that we have fragmentation in approaches…
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Deploying AI: What Nobody Seems to be Putting Together
No surprise – it's a ('it' in this case being the deployment of AI from a corporate perspective) a challenge and an opportunity. From the Artificial…
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Navigating the AI Frontier: What Canada's AIDA Regulation Means for Your Business
As AI continues to reshape industries and societies, governments worldwide are grappling with how to regulate this transformative technology. Canada…
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AI Risk and AI Management Formalised by NIST & ISO
These two subjects, with separate sections below are intertwined - understanding AI risk and the management of AI systems go hand in hand. Luckily…
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