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📌 Pinned DEC 30 · 2025

A CTO's Perspective on AI in 2026

Every year brings a new wave of AI predictions. Most are hype. Here's what I actually think will matter in 2026.

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SEP 01 · 2026

Six Months In: Where the 2026 CTO Bets Actually Stand

Half a year on from the three predictions — orchestration, enterprise enablement, everyone builds — here is what landed, what s...

AUG 31 · 2026

Stop trying to build the perfect AI harness

Six months ago everyone was tuning CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, prompt libraries, and skill catalogues like the model was a junior tha...

ai AUG 23 · 2026

1,227 Requests in 191 Days: What Lighthouse's Agentic Score Actually Measures

Chrome shipped a Lighthouse category in May that scores whether you publish an llms.txt. Google's own AI guide says AI crawlers ignore it...

ai AUG 06 · 2026

TIME Built an AI-Only Website. My Blog Already Had One — Minus the Ads

TIME.com serves AI crawlers a stripped markdown version of every article, with ads no human ever sees. This blog has served machine-reada...

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