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AI Needs Human Guardrails Too
After my talk at Agile on the Beach 2026, a Software Engineer Leader from John Lewis & Partners came over with a question I wasn’t expecting. He didn’t ask which model we use, whether we prefer Cursor or Claude Code, or which MCP servers I’d recommend. He asked about the AI framework I’d mentioned almost in passing. Could I…
Acceleration (Boooost), Confidence and Defence
A few months ago I shared our Q1 AI update and, more recently, some thoughts on our new PDP release at Collecting Cars. Looking back, both stories were really about the same thing. A relatively small engineering team shipping more than I would have thought possible even a year ago. At the time, the conversation…
PDPv2 “The Money Page” Released
This week we released PDPv2. Our NextJS Product Display Page. The show me the money page! You can see it for yourself on Collecting Cars and Watch Collecting. The most critical page on the platform. The page where excitement peaks, auctions end, bids fly in, and reliability matters most. If this page fails, we lose revenue,…
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