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“Enterprise AI strategy” is something you’d find on a consultant’s slide deck with lots of arrows, maybe a few buzzwords, and a roadmap that stretches into some hazy, futuristic quarter where everything just “works.” But in reality, the organisations making the most meaningful progress with AI aren’t following 100-slide strategies. They’re building small, scrappy, useful … continue reading
Sangeet Paul Choudary has written an interesting piece on The problem with agentic AI in 2025. The article argues that while agentic AI (systems that act autonomously rather than simply assist) holds great promise, many organisations are ill-prepared for its demands: governance, data quality, and clarity of purpose. He says they risk doing more harm … continue reading
I have reviewed about 100 product designer portfolios in the last couple of weeks for 2 open midweight product designer roles we have at Faculty. I want to help product designers get jobs. These 100 portfolios are after we have filtered out people who have applied who do not fit the criteria, i.e. the criteria … continue reading
In large consulting projects and enterprise AI programs, too many AI and data science projects follow the same unhelpful pattern. A team of data scientists works for months in notebooks, training and tuning models, carefully optimising precision, recall, and accuracy. Eventually, the results are presented: metrics are up, charts point in the right direction, and … continue reading
Back in the early days of building apps, when we were still deploying things with FTP and debugging with alert(), one of the most thrilling moments was just watching someone use your thing. Not a simulated user, not a test suite, but a real human being poking around, getting confused, lighting up when something worked, … continue reading
The other night, I built a working app prototype in a single sitting to transform json into a format I wanted. Just prompts and a few tweaks. It kind of blew my mind. It got me thinking about how people are learning to code these days and it feels like something different is happening. There’s … continue reading
One of the first problems I encountered as a design engineer was sales teams wanting custom demos of software products. They were talking to large enterprise clients, and having a slick demo in client branding helped conversations and improved engagement in their sales process. Instead of redesigning our Agents Product every time, I started to … continue reading
Transitioning from designer to design engineer can feel like stepping into a whole new world—new tools, new workflows, and a lot of unfamiliar terminology. If you’re a visual designer who’s learning to contribute code, this guide is for you. Whether you’re just starting to open GitHub Desktop, commit your first lines of code, or navigate … continue reading
In the past, product development followed a familiar pattern: designers created static mockups, handed them off to engineers, and hoped for the best. Too often, something vital was lost in translation. Beautiful ideas got watered down. User-centric nuances were overlooked. Innovation slowed to a crawl. Today, that model is changing. And it should be. With … continue reading
Most users don’t care about your product. That might sound harsh, but hear me out. For the vast majority of people, your app is just another utility — something they open, tap around in, and close without a second thought. And yet, if you’re building a an app with more than a few hundred users, … continue reading