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Oct 28, 20261 min read

Engineering leadershipLinkedIn post

When AI-written RFPs inflate the scope

AI on both sides of procurement can turn suggestions into requirements. Quality discovery gives vendors a meaningful project and budget to price.

Five-panel cartoon about requirements growing through procurement. A woman asks an LLM for a way to get groceries home. The RFP becomes an electric cargo bicycle; vendors interpret it as a connected delivery tricycle with tracking and dashboards. The final specification is an enclosed pedal-powered command center with solar power, a satellite dish, a drone and a coffee maker. The wide final panel reveals the actual need: a simple wire grocery basket on the ordinary green bicycle she already owned.

Oct 1, 20262 min read

Engineering leadershipLinkedIn post

Agent traces, visibility, and delivery cost

I did promise to keep you posted from The AI Conference. There's a ton of topic areas here, but naturally I'm drawn to those around software development.

Aug 20, 20261 min read

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Base camp gets higher, but the mountain is still there

Better tools are changing who can start the job, but expertise is still needed to finish the job.

Gru meme: Build an AI prototype in a day, show the demo, then realize it must be productionized.

Jul 15, 20261 min read

ArchitectureLinkedIn post

Security is a discipline

Spending the day at The Official Cybersecurity Summit.

Alexander Thomas at the Cybersecurity Summit.

Feb 17, 20262 min read

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The hard parts of software are trust and operations

Still seeing devs post “AI can’t even count fingers / write regex” memes. That’s not skepticism. It’s denial.