There are reasons this timeline is so exhausting.
Between all the manufactured urgency of forced AI adoption, constantly moving goal posts around retraining, and relentless fear inducing job insecurity, AI related anxiety and burnout are taking a heavy toll on the mental health of tech workers and the general public.
Continue reading“Probably the best ethics talk I’ve ever heard” – AOTB Moderator
The talk I gave at Agile on the Beach this summer was one of the most personal and difficult talks I’ve given in my career. It’s an experience report about my over 25 years working with corporate compliance and ethics programs and what happens when management systems stop processing the truth.
Continue readingA huge thank you to the Management Consultancies Association for this recognition, and to KPMG UK for giving me the opportunity, support, and encouragement throughout this year’s awards.
Continue reading“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” (Christopher) Hitchens Razor
We’re living in some dangerous times right now. Powerful people are making some pretty serious claims about what their technology systems can do with broad assurances that they’ll be good shepherds of the public interest.
Continue readingThanks to my friend Angie Jones at the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), I got to attend their flagship conference AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe in Amsterdam this month. Over the course of two and a half days I got to speak with a lot of really interesting people and listen to a ton of talks and demos on the future of agent protocols and standards, orchestration, evaluation, and real-world adoption.
Continue readingGuess what, somebody did some actual research on testing agentic systems, and they accidentally found out that good software testing is hard. So, to celebrate their enlightenment and in homage to the AI bros’ insatiable desire to “discover” things, I’m coining a new term:
Continue readingI’ve written in the past about the path we’re headed down in the software testing and quality engineering business. Expectations are being lowered to the point where AI generated and executed checks will be the primary method for testing systems. This will be paired with the “hands thrown up in the air” approach of the agentic coding community as they concede to Verification Asymmetry and just give up on reviewing AI generated code.
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