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The Wrapper Has No Clothes: How ChatGPT's Image Revolution Exposed the Moat That Was Never There
Posted on 28th Apr 2026 14:41:22 in
In the study of technology markets, theoretical arguments about competitive dynamics occasionally receive the rare gift of empirical confirmation that is both immediate and unambiguous. The rise and rapid expansion of OpenAI's image generation capability - from GPT Image 1 in March 2025 through GPT Image 1.5 in December 2025 to the newly released GPT Image 2 in April 2026 - constitutes precisely such a confirmation. In the span of thirteen months,
Beyond the Wrapper: Building Enduring Value in the Age of Foundation Models
Posted on 20th Apr 2026 11:00:18 in Gen AI
The artificial intelligence industry is undergoing a structural reckoning. Venture capital, long drawn to the gravitational pull of AI-adjacent opportunity, poured hundreds of billions of dollars into a generation of start-ups whose fundamental value proposition rested on a precarious assumption: that the friction of accessing a large language model's raw API would remain high enough, long enough, to sustain a business. It did not.
The Billable Hour Is Broken: How Generative AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Consulting
Posted on 26th Mar 2026 10:07:38 in Gen AI
For decades, the consulting industry operated on a deceptively simple premise: time equals money. A client needed a software solution built, and the cost of that solution was largely a function of how many hours it would take skilled professionals to bring it to life. Architects, developers, designers, and project managers all fed into a single, ticking meter. The more complex the project, the longer the meter ran, and the higher the invoice.
The AI Productivity Trap: Why Automating Everything Is Burning Us Out
Posted on 12th Feb 2026 17:16:03 in
Remember when we thought AI would set us free? I do. It was 2024, and I sat in a conference room listening to a consultant pitch on "AI-powered workflow optimisation." The promise was intoxicating: automate the mundane, elevate the meaningful. No more tedious email sorting. No more mind-numbing data entry. No more transcribing hour-long meetings by hand.
You are Not Using AI Wrong - You're Using It Like Everyone Else (And That's the Problem)
Posted on 24th Dec 2025 13:03:49 in Technology, Gen AI
Everyone is talking about AI as if it were a superpower. But after six months of obsessively trying to "AI-optimise" my workflow, I realised something that changed everything: I was not becoming more productive. I was becoming more replaceable. And if you are honest with yourself, most people will agree with that sentiment.
