After many years at reinteractive, next week I begin a new chapter. I'll be launching an independent consultancy focused on: - AI strategy - Fractional CTO leadership - Technology review and transformation - Engineering advisory - Safe and practical AI adoption Over the past decades I've worked closely with startups, scale-ups, and established businesses navigating technology decisions, from software architecture and engineering leadership through to the very real questions emerging around AI. What has become increasingly clear to me is this: Most businesses do not need more hype around AI, and most businesses don't have a clear strategy when it comes to tech implementation. They need clarity. They need someone who can help them: - Identify real opportunities - Avoid expensive mistakes - Modernise safely - Align technology with business goals - Make practical decisions in a rapidly changing environment That is the work I'll be focusing on. Alongside this, I'll continue growing Technology for Humans, exploring how technology and AI affect the way we work, create, and live. Melbourne-based. Working remotely with businesses across Australia and internationally. If you'd like to connect or collaborate, feel free to reach out.

Taste, judgement, humanity, irreplaceable. Full Video: youtu.be/XUUygOvclfg

Using Ai in your workflows? Here is my tip: Use it for repeatable tasks. Keep it away from the writing that needs judgment: emails, posts, website copy, and scripts. That human touch is the point. Full video: youtu.be/XUUygOvclfg

AI means we can produce more and more volume. The real differentiator in the future becomes the ability to use discernment, judgement, and to have an opinion. These are very human qualities. And as the tools get better and better, these things will always be true. In business this means AI is great for some tasks - repeatable things, volume type work. But anything that involves and interacts with humans, do that yourself. For example, let AI write the code for your applications and websites, but the copy that others will read - write that yourself. youtu.be/XUUygOvclfg

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Anyone have some fun examples of vibe coding messes (the code, not the UI)

I recently spoke to a business owner who wanted a complex tool to communicate with his staff. It turned out that everything that he wanted could be done in Slack. As a developer do you (a) charge them a high dev cost to build, of (b) point them to slack and help on-board?

Here is something I have learnt: the more intelligent our machines become, the more important human skills matter. And the more important our human qualities of judgement, wisdom and empathy become. AI Makes some of our life easier, and can automate many tasks, but it does not replace who we are.

Anyone else been using their AI's to build hardware projects? Because it's hands on it helps to see the limits of AI as opposed to programmatic or physical solutions.

Do you know what the true test of AI built software is? Do people want to use it. That's it.

Still trying to figure out AI agents?

While Ai is great at churning out possibilities, it is still up to humans to decide what matters. When creation becomes abundant, discernment becomes rare.

One of the biggest misunderstandings about AI is that people think work is mostly producing output; lines of code, text etc But the valuable part was always judgment, context, trust and decision-making. The final outcome. That’s the part that remains hardest to automate. And perhaps never will be Full episode: youtu.be/fpHRtn47EYM

It's incredible how many businesses have SaaS that they are wasting money on; never been properly set up, staff not on-boarded, overlapping with other existing tools, never needed int he first place. How much money are you wasting every month on software?

What is a fractional CTO and when should you hire one? youtu.be/1PfDTsuPoPU

Almost all the sudden anti AI posts on X come from small accounts - almost certainly bots. Who is running this campaign and why?

AI is making human skills more important and valuable: youtu.be/fpHRtn47EYM

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