Not everything worth thinking about fits neatly into an architecture diagram.
Friday Coffee is where I step back from the technical posts and write about technology as I actually experience it — the rate of change, the tools that have quietly transformed how I work, the memories that help me make sense of where we’ve ended up.
I’ve been in IT since 1985. That’s long enough to have lived through mainframes, minis, PCs, client-server, browsers, and microservices. But something about this moment feels different, and these posts are my attempt to think out loud about what that means.
No conclusions guaranteed. Grab a coffee.
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At 61, AI Gave Me a Second Act
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 almost every day. I’m also building a complete SaaS product. Quietly. Mostly alone. A year ago, if I’m honest, I could feel my career entering…
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How do you keep up with AI?
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 be redone. Not because it was bad at the time, but because the models have made huge steps forward in just a few weeks. The…
Simon Griffiths 