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This is the first post in a short Friday series I’m calling Craft & Code: what carpentry can teach us about AI, skill and the future of software. When I…
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently thinking about what happens when AI agents are pointed at real production systems — not the clean demos, but the actual accumulated…
I recently built my first non-trivial GPT. The interesting lesson was not about clever prompting. It was almost the opposite. The GPT only started to become useful when I stopped…
When I was about sixteen, I decided I wanted to build a VHF antenna. The problem was that I had absolutely no idea how. This was before PCs were common,…
There’s a quiet assumption many of us make about our digital lives: that because our photos are in iCloud, our documents in Google Drive, and our files syncing to OneDrive,…
If you read my earlier piece on Google account permissions and went away to check your list, well done. But Google isn’t the only door you may have left open.…
I’m 61. I wrote my first line of code at 15. I have a VP-level job, two dogs, a new wife, and a blog I’m somehow managing to post to…
Go to myaccount.google.com/permissions right now. Count how many apps are listed. I’ll go first. I found seventeen. And I say that as someone who has never been particularly keen on…
In a recent post I argued that you should replace your debit card and switch to Apple Pay or Google Pay for online purchases. A few people asked the obvious…
There’s a piece of advice you won’t hear from your bank. Not because they don’t know — their security teams absolutely do — but because saying it out loud is…
Simon Griffiths architects data-first systems, sceptical about the rest. Drawing on long experience across enterprise data, architecture, and AI, he prefers platforms designed for reality, not just the latest narrative.
Simon Griffiths 