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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…
I’ve been looking at some of the recent AI architecture models coming out of NVIDIA. They’re polished, coherent, and very strong on infrastructure. But something stood out immediately: they largely…
For a long time, the industry settled into a comfortable model for infrastructure. Two CPUs. A standard server. Add more boxes when you need more scale. Keep everything broadly interchangeable.…
In software development there has always been a tension between the effort invested before coding and the effort spent doing the coding. In mainframe days, the actual job of coding…
Earlier today, I looked at some work I did in ChatGPT in late February — about eight weeks ago — and it immediately struck me that the work needed to…
AI can write SQL for you and run it immediately. That’s the problem. Much of the recent excitement around AI and databases has focused on MCP (Model Context Protocol) —…
The most talked about way of connecting to an Oracle database from AI, whether Codex, Claude Code or another AI is MCP – it’s great and enables you to easily…
We are swiftly moving to a world where businesses will see AI agents as a primary channel for business processes. Chains of agents will push through a process from begin…
We have all heard the stories about AI agents going “rogue” and releasing information that is commercially sensitive or private and with the unpredictability of LLMs, this is a real…
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 