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001 / AI08 Jul 2026

My AI Investigated a Colleague Without Being Asked

I asked Claude to look into a question. It searched our Slack, named who sent it, and judged what they’d got wrong — none of which I authorised.

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Your AI Boost Is Capped by the Work You Didn’t Touch

You promised leadership a 4× boost from AI. You got 1.5×. The missing speed is locked in the stages you never pointed it at — here’s the maths.

01 Jul 2026

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AI Takes the Effort. The Effort Was the Point.

I went down a rabbit hole about what AI does to how we learn. Outsource the effort and you lose the faculty — unless you keep the thinking for yourself.

24 Jun 2026

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AI Won’t Find Your Bug. It’ll Confirm Your Hunch.

We brought Claude into our first incident war room. The lesson — give it a hypothesis to test, not a mystery to solve.

27 May 2026

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Long AI Chats Don’t Degrade — Unstructured Ones Do

Everyone says start fresh before a long AI chat degrades. I ran one for six weeks on a hard refactor — and it got better. Here’s why.

15 Apr 2026

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How AI Code Review Went From Distrusted to Mandatory in a Year

Our engineers ignored the AI reviewer for months, then made it a mandatory step themselves. A story about adopting AI by demonstration, not by mandate.

21 Jan 2026

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