The evidence suggests AI coding assistants offer tiny gains – real productivity lies elsewhere

The early years of your career shape the kind of developer you’ll become. They’re when you build the problem-solving skills and knowledge that set apart excellent engineers from average ones. But what happens if those formative years are spent outsourcing that thinking to AI? Generative AI (GenAI) coding assistants have rapidly become popular...

Make Every Meeting Count Too many meetings and ineffective meetings are highly wasteful. If a meeting is necessary, make sure it’s worth everyone’s time. Here’s how both attendees and organisers can ensure meetings are effective and productive. For Attendees Should You Even Be There? The best meetings are the ones we don’t need to have! […]

This is a copy of an article I wrote for Manchester Digital. You can read the original here and their full series here As we approach 2025, it’s been nearly two years since OpenAI’s GPT-4 launched the generative AI boom. Predictions of radical, transformational change filled the air. Yet these promises remain largely unfulfilled. Instead […]

GenAI and quantum computing feel like they’re pulling us out of an era when computers were reliable. You put in inputs and get consistent, predictable outputs. Now? Not so much. Both tease us with incredible potential but come with a similar problems: they’re unreliable and hard to scale. Quantum computing works on probabilities, not certainties....

I want to share a story I often use when coaching new leaders – a personal anecdote about a lesson I learned the hard way. Back when I was at university, I spent a couple of summers working as a waiter in a restaurant. It was a lovely place – a hotel in Salcombe, Devon, […]