The Journey
Most posts here are ad hoc: what I learned building with AI that week, some philosophy, a writing lesson, something I came across.
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The world's AI laws disagree. Four duties keep turning up anyway
Where AI regulation stands in October 2026 across the EU, the UK, the US, China and the rest of Asia: what binds now, what lands by 2028, where the rules contradict each other, and the four duties that keep recurring. The key dates re-checked at source on 14 October.
Bosses see no gain from AI, staff swear it saves time. What the evidence says works
What the evidence says about putting AI to work in an organisation: who does the implementing and what each way costs, finding the real process, deciding what AI does, testing it, measuring it, and what it does to people. Every claim graded, with ten cases checked by someone other than the vendor.
The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident broke three assumptions in how operational resilience is actually run
Detection worked. Attribution worked. A correct diagnosis on 27 June was followed by a decision not to stop, and a fortnight later Hugging Face was breached.
