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Notes on agentic AI, developer tooling and building things that earn trust.
Field notes from building production AI agents and from thirteen years leading product and technology in regulated fintech — first-person, no fluff.
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Making AI Agents Reliable: Engineering Trust into Autonomous Coding Systems
How I build production AI agents that ship real software — adversarial cross-engine review, proof-of-work gates and anti-fabrication discipline that turn autonomous coding agents from demos into dependable delivery.
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Trust Is the Product: Leading Product and Technology in Regulated Fintech
Thirteen years shipping regulated financial products at HSBC, Shieldpay and Zopa taught me that in fintech, trust is the product. Notes on product and technology leadership when compliance, risk and scale are non-negotiable.
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Pragmatic AI Adoption: How Engineering Teams Actually Get Value from Coding Agents
Most teams adopt AI coding tools the wrong way — chasing demos, hardcoding a single vendor, trusting output they can't verify. A pragmatic playbook for getting real, durable value from agentic AI.
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