What are you trying to achieve from using AI for everything? What value are you bringing to your role if you end up delegating everything to a computer program? I’m becoming more and more bemused at some of the choices people are making about what they want to have AI do for them, particularly LLMs. … Read more
The tension between Europe as a whole and the US has been growing a lot, as the hyperscalers are basically all American. I wrote about this risk a while ago. The problem is capacity. The commercial advantages of cloud hosting don’t go away just because they data risk has increased, they just don’t win against … Read more
This is the second article about the Digital Infrastructure North conference. The first DIN article is linked here. The second part of the day was about data centres. The speaker from the company that sells very expensive equipment to put into data centres thought it was very important that we built more data centres. Maps … Read more
Close your eyes. Imagine a castle. Picture it in your mind. What does it look like? What is it made of? Now think of the towers. Are they square? Round? Tall? Short? Do they have windows? I have a point, I promise you. The thing is, you could have imagined a variety of designs. Castle … Read more
We are a tool using species. It is one of our defining characteristics, and one of the ways we have been able to be as successful as we are. But there is another side to this – first we shape our tools, and then our tools shape us. We all know this, and it is … Read more
Earlier this year, I watched a demonstration of an AI tool aimed at project managers. In about two minutes, it generated a complete business case from a bare bones brief, a risk register with multiple items assigned to project team members, and a benefits map. The outputs looked professional. They were formatted correctly, used the … Read more
