Agentic Software: Why SaaS Isn't Dying, It's Growing Up
A while back, a few loud voices in tech declared that SaaS was dead. The idea was simple. AI would replace the application layer sitting on top of your data, an…
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Thinkslope: how AI can make us sharper, or quietly switch our brains off
Software engineering fundamentals were forged through decades of failure. Here's why leaning on AI to think for you - "thinkslope" - quietly erodes them.
Read →The quietest part of the AI story is where the money actually is
There are three types of companies in the AI industry right now. The ones building the models. The big platforms selling access to them. And a third group that …
Read →Open source AI and digital sovereignty: the case for a smarter European strategy
Europe has world class industrial data, decades of domain expertise, and the regulatory framework to build AI that nobody can switch off. The question was never whether to build a flagship model. It was whether anyone would notice there was a smarter option all along.
Read →A Smarter Q&A for Power BI, Built From Scratch
Power BI's built-in Q&A answers with charts. For most questions, that's the wrong shape of answer. So I built a custom visual that replies in plain text — and handles the data properly underneath.
Read →The Narrative Engine Is Now a Single Power BI Visual
The first version proved the idea. The second packs the entire AI narrative engine into one self-contained Power BI visual, so the explanation travels wherever the report goes, even to users without a licence.
Read →I Taught a Power BI Report to Explain Itself
Microsoft's Smart Narrative needs an expensive Fabric licence and still reads like an automated caption. So I built an AI narrative engine inside Power BI that explains the data in real time, for a fraction of the cost.
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