Right now
Now
Work
Director of Technology and Strategy at CDS in Leeds, and a member of the board. Engineering strategy and delivery across the consultancy, the practices that hold quality up, and growing the technical team.
Much of my attention goes on how we work rather than what we build: the standards teams hold to, the tooling they have, and the paths people follow through their careers.
Writing
After a long gap, there is new writing here. Five essays went up over the past month, starting with most technology problems are decision problems, which is the argument the rest of the site hangs off.
Then a run on working with AI: owning the output whoever produced it, a client product delivered in two months against a plan of nine to twelve, and what keeps it safe once a whole organisation works this way. The most recent, what testing taught me about running technology, connects the testing archive to what I do now.
Next up: the data and security side of running AI tools at organisation scale.
Learning and thinking about
AI now writes most of the code I produce, and nearly all of my own work has moved to the command line. The interesting problem is the organisational version of that rather than the personal one: how engineers of varying experience work this way without quality scattering, how people early in their careers build the judgement to challenge what a model hands them, and what teams can and cannot safely put into these tools.