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Artificial Intelligence: A Tool That Has to Be Learned

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It was a Friday evening, shortly before quitting time. A log analysis stuck for hours — hundreds of lines, a pattern obvious yet elusive. I pasted the output into an AI tool and asked a question. Thirty seconds later the answer sat there: precise, correct, elegantly reasoned. A colleague would have taken longer.

An hour later I wanted the same tool to reorder a simple YAML file. It hallucinated a field that had never existed, insisted flatly that it was required, and reproduced the identical error four times in a row — even though each time I pointed my finger straight at it.

Messaging tools: The choice that decides the future

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is an image that repeats.

Someone sits in a café. Four people at the next table, all mid-twenties. Nobody speaks. Everybody types. Four displays, four apps, four streams of messages flowing into four different data centres — past servers none of them has ever seen, companies none can name, under conditions none has ever read.

None finds this strange. That is the state we have reached. And it is not normal — it is merely familiar.

Self-Hosting: Sovereignty in Your Own Hands

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It usually begins with a simple question: Can I do this myself?

A photo album. A file share. A team wiki. Something you are currently using — from a provider who offers it conveniently, free or cheap, with a pretty interface. And then a moment when you realise: the data lives somewhere. Not here. Not with me. With someone I do not know, under conditions I cannot influence.

That moment is the beginning of self-hosting. And it changes more than you initially suspect.