Category: Products
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Leading data and AI teams
I gave my 2026 YOW! Tech Leaders Summit talk the alternative title lossy compression, as it squeezes 28 years in tech into 25 minutes. Many individual slides are are pointers to multiple blog posts or book chapters in their own right! This post includes references, by section from the source slides. Applications over three decades…
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Hard problems in highly agentic coding
Highly agentic coding with LLMs has great promise: automatically generating software to solve a wide range of problems. But it comes with its own hard problems to solve. With my experience in product design search and optimisation, software development, robotics and manufacturing, it’s an area I’m very interested in understanding better. What I share here…
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trippler – and resilience for all
After driving an EV at possibly the busiest Australian road-tripping time of the year (Easter), in the middle of a global fossil fuel crisis and concomitant surge in local EV sales, I decided it was time to make good on my claim that resilient planning by individuals could benefit all drivers. In practice, this means…
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Antifragile AI Architectures
AI is full of contradictions: capable but unreliable, local improvements create externalities, generalist models are evaluated against specific criteria, and so on. Antifragility is a framework that deals in contradictions too, and seems an appropriate lens through which to explore AI systems architecture, as I had used it in an earlier era to explore hand-crafted…
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trippler multi-destination
It’s time for my EV trip planning app trippler to cater to multiple destinations, beyond the beaten track of simple A-to-B trips. This is another feature I decided I needed when planning and driving The Cross to The Cape. Multiple changes I’ve wanted multiple destinations for some time, but recent refactoring of the UI and…
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trippler at PyConAU
I was thrilled to be back for my second PyCon AU – with a wonderfully diverse and inclusive group of technologists – presenting on trippler in a talk titled An EV Trip Planner for Australia. I got a great feedback, including a suggestion to incorporate the many very Australian BIG things we might encounter on…
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trippler for Aotearoa New Zealand
Planning to present my PyCon AU talk to an internal audience at MYOB, I realised the title An EV trip planner for Australia, while entirely appropriate for an Australian conference on Python, wasn’t as inclusive as it could be for the members of a technology organisation encompassing Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. So trippler now…
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Reflecting on UI polish
I’ve been meaning to give the trippler UI a glow up for MY2025 and my PyCon AU selection finally provided the impetus. In previously envisioning migrating to a Javascript front-end (vibe coded?), I was possibly making the next step bigger than it needed to be, as I’ve managed to squeeze a bit more out of…
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22 rules of generative AI, 2 years on, part 1
How has my original post on 22 rules of generative AI aged in a period of rapid change? Are these solution considerations as enduring as I thought? Let’s reflect on the original advice and developments in the meantime. Apologies again for minimal references as I timeboxed the writing. In general, evidence should be discoverable/verifiable with…
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Charger hopping
While it’s nice to make good time, when in remote areas, sometimes any route will do. For EV road trip planning in trippler, I first found the direct route, then chose chargers along the route. This approach can fail when there aren’t enough chargers close to the route, as in remote areas. Charger hopping is…