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Weaving across the AI frontier. Reshaping how knowledge work runs. Board member and Chief AI Officer at Unity Advisory. Senior Advisor to Warburg Pincus.

London, England
Joined June 2009
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just bumped into: "infinite software distributed as apps is infinite micro-silos. Tiny little papercuts of software". 🥁 @komorama
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A Weaver bird building its nest, made entirely in code. No footage, no 3D models, no textures, no hand animation. Claude Fable 5.2 wrote it in one day, directing its own team of sub-agents: 14,000 lines of Python driving Blender 11,574 individually placed feathers A nest of 453 woven strands, with four real stitches through it The bill opens on each of the 20 notes of the birdsong A wood of 29 grown trees and 157,000 leaves under a physically modelled sun and sky One take on a simulated 300 to 615 mm lens, with pulled focus and one-third-speed flight Rendered on 8 rented GPUs: 480 frames in 15 minutes, for about $2.
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Stack: Fable 5.2, Blender, Python, RunPod.
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She passed every AI safety test. She was lying. KILL SWITCH — a Slopcore music video. Made by AI. Zero human edits. Just prompting. Huge love to @anabology for the inspiration. Your work made me want to join the Slopcore. I added an irresponsible amount of film grain. 💙
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Why are experts still the production system? A faster professional is not a faster firm. Goverened work > goverened models gumph.
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25 years ago I was at BBC R&D working on AI so journalists could edit interviews faster. The tech now would have blown our minds. The actual job wouldn't. You still sit someone down with a nicer tool and they go a bit quicker.
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That's what we're building at Unity Advisory. The software hangs on to the context so the next case isn't a blank page. First time I've felt that since the BBC job.
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In services, revenue and headcount usually rise together. They don't have to. That's what actually changes the firm.
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Using @bot to win at Fantasy Football @premierleague @OfficialFPL I normally get bored or forget to do the weekly updates. I’m going to have Grok keep tabs for me, make decisions and just do its thing. I just set up an account and it build the opening week team in a pretty smart way. All by itself 🤪
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Dashboards are dead, agents are alive. And ambient intelligence telling you how to best spend your scarce time and resources at any particular time.
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Where is the PR for knowledge work?
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Starship flew to space, launched starlink satellite via its pez dispenser, took a selfie, then came back to earth 😍
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/goal fix the broken head (toilet) on my 1969 Holman Sovereign sailing ketch (thinking xhigh, use as many tokens as you like)
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/goal fix the broken head (toilet) on my 1969 Holman Sovereign sailing ketch (thinking xhigh, use as many tokens as you like)
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Most companies are about to discover that half their org chart was just a workaround for expensive coordination. As coordination, search, and execution costs collapse, the advantage shifts to organisations that can redraw their boundaries faster than competitors. Coase for the agent era.
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Funny how we are back to the days when we have to wait for computers (now agents) to do something, having got used to instant everything.
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I designed and built a sauna in my garden. Proudest of the door and the slate wall - lots of new skills learnt on the way. Time to sweat and ponder my next project 😅
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