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28 July 2026 Everybody is an AI expert now, and nobody carries the canThe barrier to calling yourself an AI consultant has fallen to about the price of a monthly subscription. The bill arrives later, and it lands on the operations team. 28 July 2026 The models are eating what the models wroteA year ago I thought this was how it ended. A paper published in May has changed my mind about the mechanism, though not about the mess. 28 July 2026 Brain in a jar, please standbyThe same model gets zero-trust architecture at work and absolutely nothing at home. Nobody decided this. It just settled that way. 28 July 2026 Thirty spelling mistakes and you bin it, thirty wrong facts and you sign itWe judge documents on the errors we can see. Automated systems make only the other kind. 28 July 2026 Fix the brakes before you fit the new engineTransformation programmes are sold as revolutions. The friction that actually costs you money has been sitting in the backlog for eleven years. 28 July 2026 The best automation idea in your business is already in the buildingIt belongs to whoever spends three hours every Monday rebuilding a report the system should have produced. Nobody has asked them. 28 July 2026 If you think AI is coming for your job, you are the person best placed to take itTwenty years of enterprise development taught you something a model has only read about. That turns out to matter more than anyone expected. 28 July 2026 One pair of brackets, four hundred thousand poundsEveryone examines how clever the agents are. Almost nobody checks whether what went into the tank was petrol. 28 July 2026 Stop asking it to write the thing, start asking it to take the thing apartThe system message is the most useful control in the whole toolkit, and most people have never touched it. 28 July 2026 The analyst who will not show their workingYou would not sign anything they gave you. Then the same behaviour arrives with an enterprise licence and you sign it weekly. 28 July 2026 Hallucination is the kindest word we could have chosenIt implies a fevered patient seeing pink elephants. What actually happens is closer to forgery, and the word we picked has been doing quiet work for years. 28 July 2026 The risk was on page seventeen and the summary did not think it matteredWe are trading the capacity to think a problem through unaided, and on some of that my view is that it is not ours to trade. 28 July 2026 Parameter count is the new horsepowerA number that sounds impressive and tells you nothing about whether the thing can park. 28 July 2026 The blindfolded painterAsking a system to check its own work as it writes is asking someone to judge a race they are still running. 28 July 2026 The more we automate, the busier everyone getsPolished nonsense does not delete work. It relocates it onto whoever opens the attachment. 28 July 2026 Substantially less proneA model launched with the claim that it was less inclined towards sycophancy, deception and power-seeking. Everyone read it as reassurance. 28 July 2026 Can we just use this?Five words that have cost more money than any technical failure I can think of. 28 July 2026 Nobody comes home and announces they only used 0.45 gallonsWe have made the fuel gauge the headline metric and filed the destination under secondary considerations. 28 July 2026 The review you need is never available when you need itYour finance director would find the hole in slide nineteen in about four seconds. She is in meetings until Thursday and you present tomorrow.

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