Here’s a great chat I had with Marc Hardwick, were we discussed the evolution of the Hitachi Application Reliability Center (HARC) and how it is being adapted to meet the…
Enterprise AI is accumulating debt faster than most organisations realise. The debt is not in the models – it’s in the plumbing around them. Teams build agents, wire…
Why the unit of scale for enterprise AI isn’t only the agent The pattern is familiar. A team builds an agent to automate triage. Another builds one to…
SaaS has always had its comfort blankets: seats, dashboards, admin consoles, and the sacred renewal motion. But something is changing! When AI can do the “clicky work”, summarise…
I guess this is quite relevant for what’s about to come! Carl Bernstein wrote a ‘few’ years ago, that through the mid-1970s, the CIA built a large, systematic…
2025 in Review for #RBM Welcome to the end of the year review for Read Before Monday! This is the last edition before the two weeks that I…
We often mistake the “Agent” in AI for style; with a persona, tone, conversational flow, as if that’s where all the magic happens. But real innovation lies underneath:…
When I first wrote about timeseries models, my argument was straightforward: this domain was lagging. Natural language had its transformers. Vision had its foundation models. But timeseries –…
Application security has always followed a familiar arc. First it was the website. Then the API. Then the LLM API. Now comes something stranger and more pervasive; the…
So, I keep seeing “AI-first” titles. Lovely. Sounds great! Looks even better… Now show me your SLOs, rollback plan and cost guardrails. If Finance can’t predict model spend…
Generative AI has captured imaginations; but for enterprises, the real challenge is no longer experimentation. It’s execution at scale. The moment you move from pilot to production, issues…
The UK’s new AI assurance roadmap is pointing the market toward something more useful than tool audits: independently assured solutions that combine software, operating model, controls, and evidence. That direction…
So, the future of application security isn’t just about protecting your website, your APIs, or even your cloud infrastructure. The new frontier is something far stranger – and…
So, Microsoft’s MCP Dev Days is live and has revealed one of the most significant OS-level shifts in recent years: the formal introduction of agents as native citizens…
Agentic AI isn’t just “the next wave of AI”. It’s going to be the new backbone for how enterprise will work. Not theoretically. Not in a lab. But…
Coding has always had heroes, rockstars, ninjas, and more recently the mythical 10x engineer. But something’s changed. When AI now drafts your PR, answers your linter, and scaffolds…
Today’s PSA 🙂First, thank you for four brilliant years of “Now About This”. Together we have recorded 80 episodes of deep‑dive conversations, rants and some pet peeves of mine. For those that follow me on…
How four rival IDEs are redefining software productivity, and what we can do about it. The silent shift in the engineering org It feels like wizardry, a fast…
Agent‑driven or “vibe” coding has sprinted from hack‑day novelty to hard business value in record time. When AI takes on the grunt work of writing, compiling and refactoring,…
Now that we understand what Time Series Foundation Models are and how they work, let’s explore their real-world impact. TSFMs are transforming industries by enhancing forecasting accuracy, optimizing…
I’ve been looking into TimeSeries Foundation Models for a while now and Time Series data is everywhere, from stock market trends to energy grid demand and predictive maintenance…
The roles of the CIOs and CTOs has fundamentally shifted. Gone are the days when IT was solely about maintaining infrastructure and “keeping the lights on”. In today’s…
GenAI, represents a revolutionary leap in artificial intelligence, empowering businesses to redefine their operations and unlock unprecedented value. Unlike the traditional AI, which primarily focuses on pattern recognition…
You know, it’s funny how things come full circle. We started with massive, expensive monoliths in the IT world. Then, along came cloud computing to disrupt the scene….
Soon we’ll all be in the Matrix, with agents doing our work. Hopefully, none of them will be like Agent Smith. Jokes aside, AI Agents are a growing focus…
We’re currently in a world where everyone (you, me and enterprises) are adopting Generative AI to help solve many complex use cases with natural language instructions. In plain…
We know that a hospital, school, government buildings, roads, bridges, electricity, water, are the core components of a Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). If something goes wrong with any…
So there was Public Cloud, Government Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, but Apple had to come up with something new, the Private Cloud Compute. Like we need to…
We all know Icarus, the story from Greek mythology… It’s the tells of a young man who flew too close to the sun with wings made of feathers…
“Remote workers are now more susceptible to automation due to their tasks being digital” – I disagree. Whilst this might be true that Generative AI can assist in…
We all have that friend that is usually not aware of how awkward and cringe he or she is, right? Sometimes, they can’t read the room. Heck, I…
Let’s admit it! Estimations aren’t for everyone, right? If you’re watching this, chances are that you’re doing SCRUM, which at certain point you struggled to estimate work, even…
Interesting article by Maxwell Tabarrok, where he criticises the notion that accumulating knowledge inevitably makes it harder to find new ideas. The burden of Knowledge Theory suggests that…
Everyone’s moving fast today. In Software Development we want everything to be lean, agile, automated, configurable, scripted, resilient, scalable… cheap and fast. Now there’s this new thing called…
You don’t need to believe in me, just look at the famous writers that still use it! Developed by MicroPro International, WordStar is often considered one of the…
The other day I was talking to a customer about the value of a Value Stream approach for their organization. We tend to focus way more on tech,…
The other day, I gave a short presentation to a manufacturing client where I highlighted our work with Time-Series LLMs, which we use for advanced predictive maintenance to…
Imagine having a versatile tool used across various industries to pre-emptively recognize and resolve issues before they become larger problems. I mean, imagine a way to identify where…
Welcome to DORA, no, no, not the explorer! But rather a new European Law that aims to be a game-changing framework for the financial sector. It’s like the…
Feels like it was yesterday (in 2016!!) that I launched the “Read Before Monday” articles, which were a curation of things I found interesting and would give my…
It’s the brink of retail revolution! Isn’t it? And now powered by Generative AI. From enhancing product design to optimizing supply chains, and from transforming marketing strategies to…
Remember Dr. Sbaitso, an artificial intelligence program designed as a digital psychologist, made by Creative Labs and introduced in the early 90s for DOS – you know the…
Back in 2007, this website was a blog aggregator and we asked a few of the bloggers to resume their 2007. The result was this number zero of…
It was Easter vacation in Portugal, back in 1993, when I started learning proper French. Why do I recall that so well? Because it was a few months…
Most people talk about thinking “outside of the box” as an idiomatic expression encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving that goes beyond traditional boundaries or norms. It’s about innovation…
For me, the Three Wise Monkeys were always a visual representation, a reminder of some bigger values, the ethical culture which I always brought to any work environment…
Just as the Industrial Revolution transformed my grandparents from shoemakers into artisans operating machinery, this new age of AI is changing the landscape for developers. In the near…
Copilot everything, everywhere, all at once. It’s not the sequel, bur rather what Microsoft presented us recently! Could easily be the plot for world dominance, again, but it’s…
Yup, That’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation… But here is the story behind the news: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/gatwick-airport-seizes-flipper-zero/ For those who follow me on Twitter and…