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I’ve been exploring the practical uses of AI for various workflows, having gone through the leading tools. In my previous write ups, I’ve been open on the realities of what worked well and what didn’t, at least in my experience. Internally, this felt like my version of a self directed learning experience to re-position myself…
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It’s 2026, and I’m starting to think the console wars were never really about consoles. I’m in my mid-thirties, watching gaming built around hardware and platforms. Some called it the console wars. Some called it competition. Either way, I’ve grown less fond of buying hardware for an exclusive these days. Look at the supply chains.…
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Three Months as a Former Developer, Product Person, and Accidental One-Man R&D Lab I have a confession to make. I have spent years around software while barely writing software. Not because I stopped caring about engineering. Quite the opposite. Like a lot of people who drift toward senior product, technical leadership, architecture decisions, escalations, delivery,…
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One problem, many altitudes There is a single engineering problem driving the next century. On the lunar south pole, a future occupant will drink water that was originally their own sweat, breathe oxygen recovered from their own exhaled CO₂, and stay warm through a fourteen-day night using a reactor nobody can service. In rural Limpopo,…
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I’ve been floating around my hometown of southern KZN lately. Decay going through its renewal phase, much like much of South Africa. But the energy feels different this time. I find myself asking: what happens when we concentrate skilled economic activity into a few economic hubs within a country? The towns and cities generating the…
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Context: Skills and Intent My background sits across software engineering, product management, infrastructure operations, licensing models, and commercial delivery. I’ve operated close enough to the system to understand how things actually move when they leave the whiteboard: I wanted to step inside it, using my own constraints, to evaluate: What actually changes when AI becomes…
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There’s a kind of framing that modern technology tells very well. It tells you that the future is decided in boardrooms, venture rounds, and product launches. That the winners are determined by benchmarks, model performance, and enterprise contracts. That the most sophisticated product – cleanest, safest, most controlled-will inevitably win. It’s a compelling story. It’s…
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Today I ran an early test across three AI systems to see how up to date they are on current events, and more importantly, how they respond to a high-level prompt with no additional guidance. The prompt was intentionally simple: “Summarise latest news on the Middle East war and the Russia–Ukraine war.” The goal wasn’t…
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There is a kind of marketing framing that modern technology tells very well. A story wrapped around a product so effectively that people stop asking the harder question beneath it. Not can this do something impressive? Almost all modern tools can. The real question is subtler, and far more dangerous: What kind of human does…
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There was a time when SaaS felt like the end state. You didn’t build. You subscribed. You didn’t worry about infrastructure. You didn’t think about uptime, or failover, or what happens when a data centre somewhere quietly goes down at 2am. You just assumed… someone, somewhere, had already figured it out. And to be fair,…