AI in Practice

Working with AI systems directly — models, tools, workflows and the knowledge infrastructure behind them. From hands-on experiments with Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini to structuring content for intelligent systems.

AI in Practice

Back to the file

Thirty years of web technology, and the most reliable setup is still a text file on a server. We just needed AI to get back there.

When AI Moves Into Your Working Environment

The real change in AI may not be the models, but where they run. When AI enters the working environment, the workflow itself begins to shift.

Future of Work

A lighter computer for a different era

A new iMac, a one-hour migration, fewer ports, more cloud and AI. Replacing a desktop computer now reveals how much the role of the machine itself has changed.

Future of Work

The Delegation Problem of the Internet

Modern life runs on delegation. Yet most digital systems assume one account, one person, one operator. Passwords and identity checks quietly block automation.

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A Personal Retention Strategy for ChatGPT

From digital scarcity to data abundance, and why I now choose deliberate reset over permanent retention in ChatGPT.

Future of Work

Vision, Judgement, Creativity: Reclaiming Agency in the Age of AI

From analysis paralysis to agency: why vision, judgement and creativity matter most in an AI-shaped world.

PersonaPlex marks a shift from dictation to conversation

Dictation turns speech into text. Conversation works in time. PersonaPlex marks the moment voice AI starts to operate in real-time dialogue.

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What coding with AI feels like now

There is a lot of noise about AI replacing programmers. I wanted something else: a sense of what is feasible, what is throwaway, and where judgement still matters.

AI in Practice

ChatGPT Memory Has Quietly Changed (Plus & Pro)

If you use ChatGPT Plus or Pro: memory now goes beyond saved preferences. Past conversations can be retrieved when relevant. Business accounts are different.

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ChatGPT Personal vs Business

If you use ChatGPT both privately and at work, you may have noticed this: one conversation seems to carry on over time, the other keeps resetting. Same system, different behaviour. That difference is deliberate, and it matters.

Word of the year: model

The word model comes from modulus, Latin for ‘measure’. It refers to simplified representations we use to make sense of reality, from maps to AI systems.

Why AI Image Editing Is Often Rebuilding

AI can make true pixel edits, but many image “fixes” work by reconstruction. Typography and colourisation expose where rebuilding replaces editing.

Structuring Knowledge with Obsidian

Discovering how Obsidian, Markdown and a light taxonomy can reveal the hidden structure of five years of writing and open a path toward knowledge engineering.

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Making Content Ready for Intelligence

Unstructured content already holds the knowledge organisations rely on. The shift is learning how to reveal its structure so intelligent systems can use it.

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Voice Mode Without the Screen

Voice mode with Gemini and ChatGPT. On iOS the lock screen, Dynamic Island, and Live Activities decide whether your assistant stays visible.

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Group Chats in ChatGPT: Solving a Problem That Isn’t There

ChatGPT’s strength has been a focused space to think, explore, and learn. By pushing into group messaging, it risks disturbing that clarity. When an assistant becomes a social venue, not only does the feature struggle to justify itself. It threatens the very environment that made the tool valuable.

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What llms.txt can do for your website

When bots become interpreters of your brand, context matters. llms.txt helps guide what AI systems understand and repeat about your website.

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Flying Blind: Measuring Traffic When Your Readers Are Machines

As readers move into ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews, we lose sight of them. Can Cloudflare and Plausible help us measure what’s missing?

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Compute: A New Measure of the World

Compute once meant calculation. Now it shapes work, art, and power. An invisible current running through the modern world’s every action.

Europe

From Free to Paid: Choosing the Right AI Model (with a European Lens)

Building on Ethan Mollick’s excellent ‘Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now’, this article explores how to choose between the leading AI systems. And what a European perspective adds when moving from free to paid use.

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When Research Turns Into Action: Understanding Deep Research vs. Agent Mode in ChatGPT

Both modes inside ChatGPT seem to “think”, yet one begins to “do”. Exploring the quiet shift from analysis to operation in everyday AI tools.

AI in Practice

When Bots Become Readers: Publishing in the Age of AI Crawlers

Listening to Matthew Prince on Azim Azhar’s podcast made me reflect on who actually reads my blog. People (like you), machines, or both.

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When AI Makes the Calendar Click

A hotel booking, a single prompt, and a small glimpse of how AI quietly starts to understand our everyday tools.

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Why I Keep Mixing Up Hortensia, Hibiscus and Rhododendron

A mix-up of flower names becomes a window into how human memory works and how it contrasts with AI models.

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Streams and Archives: Two Ways of Living with Our Digital Data

Personal data lives in two worlds: flowing streams of fresh information and enduring archives of credentials. Both shape our digital future.