The Service Account Problem Has a New Name
AI agent identity is being treated as a new governance problem, but most enterprises are still carrying the same unresolved service-account hygiene underneath it.
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What Two AIs Saw in My Study
Asking ChatGPT and Claude the same vision-led room question showed a difference that benchmarks do not always catch: what each model thinks the answer is for.
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What I Stopped Fighting on the SA Pro Recert
Moving AWS recert notes from OneNote to Notion, using Claude projects for dense study notes, and where the setup paid off on SA Pro weak spots.
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Better Than What It Replaces
Self-service, automation, and AI testing only matter when they make the real task faster or easier for the person using them.
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Everyone Wants a Good Handover. Nobody Wants to Write One.
Good documentation feels like overhead until the day it saves the incident, the handover, or your future self from starting again with no context.
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Microsoft's New Outlook Took Two Years to Get Colour Categories Back
A small missing calendar rule in new Outlook shows the hidden cost of migrating users before the new client can carry their workflows.
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The Ladder Didn't Break When AI Arrived
AI is eating some junior work, but the route into architecture had already been narrowed by cloud, specialisation, and the loss of accidental breadth.
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AWS Summit London 2026 — Post-Summit
The AI Builders Breakfast ended up being the most useful part of the day, and it sharpened the same question I arrived with: where the application layer fits in the AWS Summit conversation.
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AWS Summit London 2026 — Pre-Summit
I've never been to an AWS Summit before. On Wednesday I'm heading to ExCeL London, and I've already had to make some hard choices about how the day runs.
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Why I Couldn't Containerise My Home Server
A 2013-era i5 meets Docker, WSL, and the reality that hardware ceilings only show up when you try something new.
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