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Most information on the web is published primarily for humans, even though increasingly the thing consuming it is likely an agent.

Two futures become apparent once frontier AI becomes powerful enough to reshape society.

For many routine commercial tasks, model capability may no longer be the constraint.

Transcript and slides from my AI Engineer Melbourne 2026 talk about how, once a model is competent enough, the speed of the iteration loop matters more than the headline intelligence of the model.

The release of Mercury 2 suggests diffusion models may change agent design - not by increasing intelligence, but by making iteration dramatically faster.

OpenClaw gives us a taste of a personal AI assistant that can actually do things, but you don't need to buy an expensive Mac Mini or give full access to your digital life for it to be useful.

The AI hype is over, and the industrial reality has begun.

A quick checklist to test whether a capability is real or just aspirational, covering ownership, metrics, roadmap, playbooks, and delivery cadence.

ChatGPT's new image model is squaring up against Gemini's recent dominance, and the results are strong enough to turn process docs into instant visual explainers.

A local LLM board of advisors that reuses existing Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT subscriptions, with models debating and converging on answers together.

Split View for tabs arrives in Chrome, making side-by-side work and note-taking far easier than juggling windows.

As web dev becomes codified and KPI-driven, it risks losing the joy.

Gemini 3 feels tighter, more consistent in long responses, and more willing to pull in relevant images and references than earlier versions.

A week of deep strategy work with clients highlights the uniquely human capabilities that we need to keep as businesses transition to using more AI within the enterprise and across their workforces.

Atlas highlights the strategic focus of browser makers versus AI-native companies with the incumbents prioritising inward integration versus more of an ecosystem play.

Transcript and slides from my Web Directions AI Engineering 2025 talk about scaling coding agents without breaking your development team.

Another data breach, this time from Qantas, shows again that the capture and proliferation of personal data across businesses needs a rethink.

Google's new Gemini CLI arrived, so I had a play with some real dev tasks.

ChatGPT-4o's new image capabilities add multi-modal context and iterative edits, bringing it into line with recent Google releases.

AI is everywhere in the travel industry - just not where most travellers see it.

After a tough few years, Australian retail is showing the first signs of stability.

Mistral 3 Small is fast, lightweight, and ideal for local workflows, but it exhibits knowledge compression when compared to bigger frontier models.

Deepseek R1 shows strong reasoning, but its safety controls reflect geopolitical constraints and may leak into adjacent topics.

Nous Research is training a 15B model with distributed techniques, pointing to a future where more organisations can train their own LLMs.

AI is redefining the software development process.

Flux makes image generation easier to prompt, and the community's new LoRAs are already pushing it into playful new directions.

Stepping suddenly from practice to enterprise leader can be daunting.

Image models still skew heavily in who they depict, forcing users to over-prompt for diversity and reinforcing bias by default.

Amidst a wave of layoffs in the tech sector, retail and consumer businesses have a unique chance to leverage cutting-edge technology and talent, creating an opportunity for growth and innovation.

Mixtral 8x7B can spiral into anxious feedback loops, a reminder of the quirks baked into models trained on the internet.

Retail revenues are stabilising, but heavy discounting is pulling sales forward and eroding margins heading into 2024.

After attending the Web Directions AI conference, it's clear 2023 brings significant advancements in AI.

Snack’s AI dating gimmick is another marker in a broader shift toward digital twins and AI assistants handling everyday tasks.

A breakthrough VFX workflow shows how generative AI can amplify human creativity when paired with skilled teams and good tools.

There is a lot of opportunity for Generative AI from a business technology perspective.

ChatGPT style-transfer prompts are a surprisingly fun way to explain complex topics within tight constraints.

Explorations of how to build bots with JavaScript that blend virtual and physical worlds, using chat interfaces like Slack to create embodied agents.

I moved this site from WP to metalsmith.io in order to get a more pure authoring experience.

What started as a plan to simply make components work a bit better with NodeBots turned into a way of managing any firmware using JavaScript.

Responsive design is still very screen size focussed where as we should be considering context much more than we do.

JS is moving out of the browser and into all manner of places.

IoT product development has the opportunity to draw on some of the lessons hard won over the years of developing for mobile.

A summary of the various projects completed as part of the JS IoT workshop given at DDD Melbourne 2015.

Using a raspberry pi and some batteries to create a portable minecraft server that can be put in a lunch box and taken to the park.

The ESP8266 is a capable device in its own right and can run a simple web server.

This new book on JavaScript robotics launches today, co-authored by 15 of core NodeBots community members from around the world.

Ambient technologies are very hard to design well.

"Information Radiators" - devices that use physical means to relay encoded information are great projects if you want to explore IoT.

There are many interesting things to be found in the Device API.

JavaScript is leaving the browser and entering the real world.