Ideas
Thinking out loud.
Essays and notes on judgement, restraint, and building things people keep using.
The best AI automation tools in 2026
There's no single 'best' tool in this category, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. A tier-by-tier, honest look at Zapier, Make, n8n, UiPath, Lindy and custom agents — and, more usefully, who each one is actually for.
ReadStop chasing the benchmark, start shipping
Every week a new model tops a new leaderboard, and every week someone rewrites their stack to chase it. Why the 'best AI model' debate is the wrong debate — and what actually separates teams that ship reliable AI from teams that don't.
ReadEurope lights up faintly on the AI map — and that should worry us more than the China panic
What the global distribution of AI computing power means for Europe — as a union, and for the companies that run on it. An interactive map of who owns the world's compute, and an argument for optionality over autarky.
ReadAgentic RAG: why your retrieval pipeline needs a brain
A retrieval pipeline that fetches but never reasons fails silently — a confidently wrong answer with no error thrown. Agentic RAG hands the LLM real agency over how grounding happens, and the engineering discipline that demands.
ReadAI as a solution, not the goal
Most failed AI projects didn't fail because the model was bad. They failed because nobody asked what challenge it was for. A case for challenge-first development.
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