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Continue reading ?: From Local LLMs to AI AgentsI experimented with WikiLLM, OpenClaw and Perplexity Computer to build an AI “Second Brain” at home, but the more useful these agents become, the more access they seem to demand. I explain why I’m not yet comfortable trading computer security for convenience.
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Continue reading ?: Open-Sourcing Vibe-Coded ProjectsDiscover how open-sourcing vibe-coded projects can save tokens, accelerate innovation, and build better AI tools together. Learn why AI agents could manage collaborative codebases and how the open source model applies to AI development.
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Continue reading ?: The State of AI, and the beginning of the UnravellingAGI races, martial-arts robots, dexterous hands, brain chips; each a different risk, together a dystopian future. Here’s what worries me, and the four guardrails I’d set.
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Continue reading ?: A Year Into AI’s Free Lunch: The Start-up Subsidy
Frontier AI subscriptions are becoming an unofficial product-development subsidy for start-ups. But rather than pushing teams towards consumer-plan workarounds and fragmented accounts, AI labs should offer verified, stage-appropriate programmes that help genuine start-ups build responsibly.
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Continue reading ?: How Canva Is Integrating AI, Whether Freemium Is a Dead Horse, and Is Stripe Becoming a Business Bank?
Reflections from Stripe Tour Sydney: Canva’s AI economics may challenge the freemium model, while Stripe’s expanding Treasury, stablecoin, card and capital products make it look increasingly like a business bank for online merchants.
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Continue reading ?: Why Vibe Coders Should Rethink DependenciesDependencies made sense when humans were writing every line of code. But coding agents change the tradeoff. For many simple tasks, it is now faster, safer, and easier to let the agent hand-roll the code instead of adding another package with security risk, upgrade churn, and maintenance debt. That is…
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Continue reading ?: The talent to build is already inside your organisationServing as a selector for the most recent Startmate cohort gave me a perspective I did not expect: how little actually separates the world of startups from the corporate innovation work I have spent years facilitating. The mystique around founders is largely just that; the difference between a founder and…
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Continue reading ?: Build First: What Heidi Health’s Culture Says About Where Software Is HeadingAt Blackbird Sunrise, Heidi Health CEO Dr Tom Kelly made the case for a radical idea: build first culture, where everyone ships to production, regardless of role. It’s a provocative model that AI is making increasingly viable — but borrowing the culture without the discipline underneath it is where most…
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Continue reading ?: How Anthropic Structures Their Technology TeamsAt the Blackbird Sunrise festival in Sydney, Anthropic’s Angela Jiang and Katelyn Lesse pulled back the curtain on how one of the world’s leading AI labs actually structures and operates its technology teams; and the implications for the rest of us are worth paying attention to.
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Continue reading ?: Ten Years Electric, and I’m Going Back to Petrol. Here’s Why.A decade of EV road trips, a jammed charge port at Lakes Entrance, and 4% battery in Pakenham. Australia’s charging infrastructure still isn’t ready for long weekends.
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