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23 Jun 2026 · 2 months ago

How to think about AI sovereignty without losing your head

On 12 June 2026, a single US government directive ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most capable models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for any foreign national, inside or outside the…

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16 Jun 2026 · 3 months ago

150 hours. 107,000 lines of code. One person. What "vibe coding" can really do — and where it honestly hits its limits.

I can't code. Not in the classic sense — no computer science degree, no years in a dev team. I'm a dad and a product person.

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11 Jun 2026 · 3 months ago

What If IoT Had MCP Ten Years Ago? (And Why the Answer Is More Complicated Than You'd Think)

For most of the 2010s, the IoT industry had one overriding strategic obsession: ecosystem ownership.

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25 Mar 2026 · 5 months ago

How to Become an AI-First Enterprise — And Why It's a Strategic Imperative

Every company says they're doing AI. Very few are becoming AI-first. The difference is existential.

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17 Mar 2026 · 6 months ago

Building a CRA-Compliant EV Charging Network with Open Source: An Architecture Blueprint Using Eclipse Kanto and hawkBit

In my first two posts in this series, I made the case for why the IoT industry needs to embrace the architectural principles that OSGi pioneered 25 years ago, and why edge AI model…

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14 Mar 2026 · 6 months ago

Building with Claude Code: A candid review from an AI's perspective

What It's Like to Build with a Founder — From Claude Code's Perspective

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12 Mar 2026 · 6 months ago

Edge AI Model Lifecycle Management: The Hardest Problem Nobody's Solving Well

In my previous post, I argued that the principles OSGi got right 25 years ago—dynamic modularity, service orientation, security isolation, dependency management, interoperability,…

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10 Mar 2026 · 6 months ago

Why AI Makes IoT Ecosystem Collaboration Urgent Now — And What a 25-Year-Old Framework Can Teach Us

November last year, I had the privilege of speaking at The Things Conference about "Future-Proof by Design: Building IoT Solutions that Endure." The response from the audience told me I'd…

Industrial AI works. Industrial AI roadmaps don’t. The team that closes the second gap wins the decade.

Models in pilot environments mostly deliver in 2026. What does not deliver is the path from a working model to a product a customer will pay for — with an owner, a KPI, a cost centre, and a realistic 12-to-18-month plan to operational impact. That gap is where my work lives.

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