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Insights
Insights.
We write about problems we have actually had to solve, which is why there is less here than on a site that publishes weekly.
Everything below is a position we hold. Where a discipline page states one, this is where it gets defended at length, with the reasoning and the counter-argument. If you disagree with something here, that is a useful conversation and we would rather have it before an engagement than during one.
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The Future Belongs to Businesses That Put People First
AI is becoming table stakes, which is exactly why customer experience, not technology, will separate the companies that thrive from the ones that merely keep up.
Andrea Dugmore
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Agentic Process Automation

Scaling correctly comes first.
Automation applied to a process nobody has defined does not produce scale. It produces the same confusion, faster.
Ruben Coetzee
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Software Design & Development

Just because you can build it, does not mean you should.
AI has lowered the cost of building software to almost nothing. It has not lowered the need for judgement, and that gap is where the value is won or lost.
CE van der Dussen
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Software Design & Development
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