SELECTED BLOG POSTS
The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT | WIRED
LANGUAGE IS MEANINGLESS without context. The sentence “I’m going to war” is ominous when said by the president of the United States but reassuring when coming from a bedbug exterminator. The problem with AI chatbots is that they often strip away historical and cultural context, leading users to be confused, alarmed, or, in the worst cases, misled in harmful ways.
Claims about DOGE and AI – Marginal REVOLUTION
The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations, with the goal of eliminating half of Washington’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post and four government officials familiar with the plans. The tool, called the “DOGE […]
The Microsoft Advantage: Why Copilot Studio is Winning the Enterprise AI Race | by Mohamed Ali Hendaoui | Jul, 2025 | Medium
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, companies are racing to integrate AI into their workflows, but many struggle with the complexity and cost of building custom solutions from scratch…
Some thoughts on “Agentic DevOps”, AIOps, and Vibe Coding. With Gene Kim and Nicole Forsgren. – James Governor’s Monkchips
A couple of months back Microsoft introduced the term “Agentic DevOps” at its Build conference (my full write up about the show is here). I thought it was interesting. I mean obviously,…
Gen Z says they’re into ‘conscious unbossing.’ Something else is actually playing out in the workplace, Glassdoor says | Fortune
What happens when the "conscious unbossing" generation becomes the boss?
Why context engineering – not prompting – is the key to building reliable AI agents
The Large Language Models that power generative AI and the agents that rely on them have a memory problem that limits the usefulness of prompts alone.
The term "context engineering" was recently popularised by Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke in a tweet:
"I really like the term ‘context engineering’ over prompt engineering.
It describes the core skill better: the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM."