AI is now better than checking documents, contracts, proposals and other similar work than you and me. (Good. I never liked doing reviews anyway.) This AI advantage only increases at scale. It can deliver the same level of service 24/7 at a lower cost than you. How many times have you seen stuff leave your organisation and then been horrified to find out what was sent to your customer. Best case is a poor brand impact; worst case is commercial and legal risk. We've built an a

AI only re-uses things that are out there. It's not creative. It can't cope with the demands of a complex ideation process. The history of human creativity is stuffed with so much re-use, it's quite a comical view to adopt. From Bridget Jones's Diary, a copy of Jane Austen, to Roger Sanchez sampling one verse from a 70s song from legendary Toto, the world is full of slightly tweaked copies. There are only so many words, notes and pixel colour values. Creativity is not desirab

From Andrej Karpathy, formerly of leading AI roles in OpenAI and Tesla. I've been saying this will happen for a while now. The charge that has been (reasonably) held against me is that I am selling AI services, so I am biased. I am biased, but that does not mean that a huge change is not a real thing. Software engineering is now a different discipline, with a new set of skills to augment the existing ones. https://x.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876

There has been a lot of LinkedIn noise about this AI Skills Hub box of weblinks website delivered to the UK Government by PWC for a cool £4.1m. A good post commenting on this below. I had a look at the new site. It's not a very good website (it's not the worst) but there are so many questions here. How can we do better and spend our public money to get greater value is one obvious one, but the key question, for me, is this: where has our ambition and visionary drive gone? 1.

I just used AI to discover a novel variation in quantum mechanics. This started with a conversation last week with Jeremy Davey. If Einstein had used a 1905 version of the Internet and an LLM could he have created the Theory of Relativity through prompts? The ChatGPT thread below goes on a journey through that topic and on to exploring what a paradigm shift breakthrough actually is. Often, it's a complete reversal of a concrete assumption (the world is flat, the sun orbits us

I have six things to say about this: 1. I’m not sure how a company that sells software to lawyers can triple in valuation to $6B in four months. 2025 revenue was just $23M. This is not unique to Legora, there are other AI SaaS tools that do “one thing” with these odd valuations. It only makes sense to the previous round of investors. 2. AI SaaS is not the future. SaaS is not dead but it is starting to feel a little tired in the morning. Custom AI solutions on a private and go

I was at the Microsoft AI Tour last week. Microsoft exists to sell products. I worked there many years ago in their industry team and the license always won over the solution. It’s in the DNA. They do make some great products. We are a top-tier Microsoft AI partner and we deploy them in our engagements. But AI is not about software products. It's so far away from what most businesses need that its like trying to sell them a chocolate eclair to hammer in a nail. AI transformat

Great article in The Times this weekend. Our country needs to invest more in supporting AI startups, amongst other future tech. If you want to support a U.K. business with your AI plans then drop me a line. Ian Hogarth We need to back ‘patriotic’ winners to build the UK’s first £1tn tech giant https://www.thetimes.com/article/a67e6cf2-eb60-42bb-a30e-8691d2a7c39d?shareToken=449eb80e7717538f6df4718b65416603

There is lots of talk about AI taking jobs. This might happen. It might happen quickly or slowly. New categories of jobs will appear, roles will change task mix and some tasks will completely disappear. The net position will likely not alter too much. This is what history tells us. When Google first bounced on to the scene, there were no SEO agencies. And now there are. With AI they become GEO agencies or they perish. And so the cycle continues. The best defence? Network wide

Interesting article yesterday on the BBC: person reacts in horror and potential loss of personal relevance due to introduction of AI (link below.) Horrific reactions are not known to stop the march of technology. The cause of this latest burst of horror is debut of an AI actor, Tilly Norwood, who is now being represented by a talent agency. This is beginning of a new pattern. Human interest will determine what happens next, but let's imagine that the AI actor is cheap and wil

There is lots of talk about AI taking jobs. This might happen. It might happen quickly or slowly. New categories of jobs will appear, roles will change task mix and some tasks will completely disappear. The net position will likely not alter too much. This is what history tells us. When Google first bounced on to the scene, there were no SEO agencies. And now there are. With AI they become GEO agencies or they perish. And so the cycle continues. The best defence? Network wide

I was at the Microsoft AI Tour last week. Microsoft exists to sell products. I worked there many years ago in their industry team and the license always won over the solution. It’s in the DNA. They do make some great products. We are a top-tier Microsoft AI partner and we deploy them in our engagements. But AI is not about software products. It's so far away from what most businesses need that its like trying to sell them a chocolate eclair to hammer in a nail. AI transformat