Forty-seven senior AI job descriptions, and not one of them asks you to build AI. Over the past weeks I read more than forty senior AI and technology leadership job descriptions published across Europe. Not the company culture pages. The requirement...

EY asked 975 C-suite leaders about responsible AI for its Responsible AI Pulse survey. One finding stands out: 32% of companies prohibit employees from building their own AI agents, and among those companies, 12% admit they cannot see whether it happ...

Somewhere in your company there is probably a workflow built on a no-code platform. Someone sensible built it, it solved a real problem, and it still runs. When the subscription comes up for renewal, the question on the table is whether the platform ...

A renewal questionnaire came back from a client's procurement team with a question I had not seen on that form before: in which jurisdiction is the model executed, and who operates the hardware it runs on. It was between a question about SOC 2 eviden...

Second day of the AI summit in Barcelona, in a room with maybe two hundred people in it, a governance speaker asked how many of us had the authority to stop an AI system we oversee, not merely flag a concern about it. Nobody raised a hand. Then she s...

Ask a company for the list of AI systems it runs and you get a procurement export: licensed tools, seat counts, renewal dates. It is an accurate answer to a question nobody asked. The marketing assistant somebody wired into the CRM through a no-code ...

A manager at the company started building with AI last year. He described what he wanted, iterated with the model, clicked through the result, and fed back the cases he had forgotten until the behaviour was right. An afternoon of that produced someth...

Anthropic surveyed 132 of its own engineers about Claude Code. Merged pull requests per day rose 67 percent. Daily use of the tool climbed from 28 to 59 percent. Self-reported productivity gains ran between 20 and 50 percent. But then someone checked...

A colleague recently asked me how he would run financial analysis with AI over the books of an accounting system: the ledgers, the trial balances, the P&Ls. He had three options on the table and no strong preference among them. Generate the PDF repor...

A while back I was able to build a working knowledge base in less than an hour. Fifty-five minutes to be accurate. I started by opening VS Code with Claude Code in the side panel. I had documentation scattered across roughly ten training manuals, a v...

The tool worked. That was never the problem. A business manager had specced it with AI, straight from the business need, and the result did what he asked: it ran, it produced output, it looked finished. What it did not have was a single log line. No ...

I lost a full long weekend to OpenClaw once. Friday to Sunday, trying to get it running locally with an on-premise LLM on my personal machine. The machine was reasonably capable, though nothing close to a datacenter. I had watched something like fort...

When good cameras got cheap, everyone predicted the death of professional photography. The prediction landed wrong. The low end died outright: stock libraries, cheap portraits, mass-event coverage went to anyone with a phone and a free editing app. T...

I built a working knowledge base while I was in a one-hour company meeting, waiting for my turn to give my briefing. Even I was surprised at how fast it came together. And it was not a mockup. It was a complete chat interface that connected to nearly...

I went to the Cyber / AI Expo in Munich a couple of days ago expecting a sales floor. There was one. The thing I came away thinking about, though, wasn't on any booth. The expo was predictable enough: wall-to-wall vendors, each with a product to mov...

If you need the same answer twice, don't use AI. I learned this the hard way during a project where headquarters mandated to use OpenClaw - an AI orchestration platform and workflow automation tool that had been making the rounds in tech publication...

My company decided to lean into AI — to let people who had never written code build real software with it. I thought that was the right call, and I still do. The logic behind the decision seems airtight: tools like Claude Desktop are built to be acc...

A few weeks ago a Business Manager handed me a 50-page AI-generated technical spec. The document was impressive. The perspective behind it was the problem. I had talked to him a few days earlier about a new internal tool the company needed. We discu...

I went to Milano AI Week 2026 expecting demos. I came back with observations — about the technology, the people, and a few small things I didn't expect to remember. The event is positioned as Europe's biggest AI gathering. After two days inside it, ...