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Most People Stop at Mount Stupid With AI. The Risk Is Never Going Past It.

Most People Stop at Mount Stupid With AI. The Risk Is Never Going Past It.

When you first use AI you feel like an expert at everything, that's Mount Stupid. The more you use it,

July 13, 2026
We Were All Farmers Once. Nobody Calls That a Tragedy.

We Were All Farmers Once. Nobody Calls That a Tragedy.

Junior skills will change; spreadsheets and contracts will increasingly write themselves. But entry-level work evolving is not the same as

July 10, 2026
The Discount Reflex Isn't a Pricing Problem. It's a Knowledge Problem.

The Discount Reflex Isn’t a Pricing Problem. It’s a Knowledge Problem.

I signed 7-figure deals with heavy discounts; several customers had budget for 10-15% more. When your best salesperson leaves, the

July 8, 2026
Global Threats Are Accelerating. Defence Engineering Capacity Is Not.

Global Threats Are Accelerating. Defence Engineering Capacity Is Not.

Europe's defence industrial base is short 150,000-200,000 skilled workers; Barrow's submarine workforce fell from 14,000 to under 3,000. You cannot

July 5, 2026
AI Doesn't Have to Burn a Coal Plant to Answer a Support Email

AI Doesn’t Have to Burn a Coal Plant to Answer a Support Email

A 175B cloud model to triage a ticket a 9B model could handle on a single office GPU. We mapped

July 2, 2026
Vibe Coding vs Vibe Engineering: The 90% Nobody Talks About

Vibe Coding vs Vibe Engineering: The 90% Nobody Talks About

Vibe coding gets you working code fast. But will it still work in six months, can your team maintain it,

June 30, 2026
The Single Integer That Was Quietly Wrecking Our Retrieval

The Single Integer That Was Quietly Wrecking Our Retrieval

Reciprocal Rank Fusion's default k=60 comes from a 2009 web-search paper. On a small technical corpus it flattens your ranking

June 27, 2026
The Component We Almost Threw Away: Why a Reranker Is the Gatekeeper of Good RAG

The Component We Almost Threw Away: Why a Reranker Is the Gatekeeper of Good RAG

A cross-encoder reranker moved our benchmark from 70% to 78%, but only in combination. Two industry-standard additions dropped accuracy 35

June 24, 2026
Everyone Has the AI Tools. Almost Nobody Has the Returns

Everyone Has the AI Tools. Almost Nobody Has the Returns

McKinsey: 88% of companies use AI, only 39% see EBIT impact. BCG: just 5% create value at scale. The winners

June 22, 2026
A Decade Ago Everyone Moved to the Cloud. AI Is Quietly Bringing Software Back On-Prem

A Decade Ago Everyone Moved to the Cloud. AI Is Quietly Bringing Software Back On-Prem

$285 billion in software market cap vanished in 48 hours. AI has collapsed the cost of building, so the turnkey-SaaS

June 19, 2026