James Pain's Weblog

There's a livestream running of a humanoid robot sorting packages.

It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write.

I've been distro-hopping for probably twenty years.

I’ve spent the last decade (or two) trying to write on a blog while also building the perfect blog.

Express is a small experiment I led to make hiring tradespeople simple, fast, and trustworthy.

There’s a quiet trap in modern engineering culture: the belief that maturity comes from infrastructure sophistication.

Introduction This story starts, like many good ideas, with a bit of curiosity and a product manager messing around with ChatGPT.

When I joined my current organisation, the engineering architecture was mid-transformation; shutting down a heritage system, introducing new platforms, and experimenting with AI.

This year I inherited Checkatrade’s long-running ‘Heritage Switch Off’ project.