Simon Griffiths

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Category: Programming

  • What’s Next for Coders?

    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…

  • How to Build Good Software with AI — Not How You’ve Been Told

    In a previous post, I wrote about the current narrative around AI agents “coding for hours” and what’s actually going on behind the scenes. If you haven’t read that, it’s…

  • AI Agents Coding for Hours — What’s Really Going On?

    There’s a growing narrative that AI agents can now “code for hours” and build meaningful applications with minimal human involvement I’ve spent a bit of time looking into this, and…

  • Why I Stopped Letting AI Run SQL

    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) —…

  • Building Apps on Oracle with AI on a Mac

    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…

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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.