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AOTB Fireside Follow-up
A fireside follow-up, and the bits I wanted to underline I recently did a fireside chat follow-up to my AOTB 2025 AMA talk. It was meant to be simple. A few questions, a few stories, a bit of reality from the last 6 to 12 months. What I didn’t expect was how clearly a few…
Back at Collecting Cars
In October 2025 I left Collecting Cars to try something new. Four months later, I’m back. The other role didn’t land how I’d hoped, and in that time I realised how much I missed what we have here: the team, the platform, and yes, the cars. I’ve rejoined as Head of Engineering. Thank you to…
AI at Collecting Cars, AMA Replay
The Agile On The Beach replays are live! Since speaking, I’ve had time to reflect on what’s changed, what I got wrong, and how fast AI-first software engineering is evolving. The replay of my AI at Collecting Cars AMA is here… What I Got Wrong On stage, I implied I didn’t trust or use agents.…
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