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'Black October' cost me half a day on a few small apps. Very little of that time went on running commands.

PHP2Shell has every vendor shipping urgent fixes this week. The ones I’d watch are the AI systems that keep working after the patch goes in.

Nobody else could price a custom charter flight upfront, in an app. At Vetifly, we could do it because I spent weeks on the data before writing any logic.

I got the PMI-CPMAI certification last week. The areas where I'm strongest tell you the story.

Agents are replacing automation that was tested once and trusted. They need to be managed more like the people they work alongside.

The AI agent incidents of the last few months read like a plot Asimov wrote in 1942. What he didn't put in were laws that could be switched off.

There's a new security surface in your company. It's owned by marketing, and nobody told them. Researchers registered package names that companies' llms.txt files still pointed to. The first callback came four minutes later. Within the hour, one came from inside a Fortune 500 company. llms.txt is a proposal, not a standard. It sits next to robots.txt, so it gets handled like an SEO file. Agents read it like an install guide.

A personal use case revealed a truth about organisational readiness for agentic access. You've been putting in DevOps monitoring for whether things are running smoothly, and used DataOps only for pipeline reliability. It's time to have DataOps monitor whether the data accessible by scripts and agents is consistent, especially all that is public.

The old 80-20 rule of SaaS doesn't apply to AI solutions. And neither are giving good results yet.

An AI coding assistant is a junior dev who thinks they're a senior dev. I learnt that the hard way.

$6 spent in 2 days before I turned it off. On something that was to be free.

During a drive yesterday, my son complained "Why is the road so bumpy? I'm not able to draw!", on a small patch between highways. I mentally facepalmed.

I have come to like session limits, they help me take a break. But it took a lot to get here.

Nobody formally decided to kill the passenger business. It was stopped as a side effect.

I wrote recently about two types of founders. The ones who find the problem, and the ones who figure out the best solution. Most startups that get to Series A and further have both types.

62 million... And a professional network trying hard to avoid the conversation...

*The two types of founders* - My personal theory