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Never Meet Your Heroes? Driving the Porsche 997.2 GT3 RS 3.8
Every so often you get a proper “pinch me” day. Thanks to a generous friend, after years of obsessing over the 997.2 GT3 RS 3.8, I finally got to drive one. One of my goals this year is to write more. Another is to drive more. I’m hoping those two things complement each other. If you’ve…
The Bottleneck Moved: An H1 2026 Update
The bottleneck moved The week after Agile on the Beach was an odd one. One day I was supporting our CPO with the board pack, pulling together the engineering story: six months of delivery, tidied into charts. Another I took off to spend at my friends’ company, helping them work out how to adopt AI, with the…
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…
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