Sean Blanchfield

AI sovereignty is being used to mean five different things simultaneously.

There’s a big change happening in our inboxes and channels.

Software products are collapsing into AI agents, and professional services are collapsing into AI agents too.

I’ve been running a single AI agent for everything.

In late 2024, Satya Nadella declared “SaaS is dead.”

Keynote at PorterShed Spark, April 23 2026, Dexcom Stadium, Galway.

This article is ghostauthored by my OpenClaw agent, Shirka.

Opening speech for the Irish National AI Meet 2025, given on 18th September 2025 in the Galmont Hotel in Galway.

I kicked off ShipItCon 2025 with a keynote on titled Survival in the Age of Agents.

I was invited to kick off the TechIreland National AI Challenge 2025, supported by Google and OpenAI, with 500 contestants from around Ireland on an intensive 2-week sprint to build innovative AI applications.

“The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is… 42.”

Companies that started from 2023 onwards are the AI-native generation.

Since November 2024, software has become approximately free to create.

Had a great chat with Mark Kelly on the AI Ireland podcast.

We are at the dawn of the generative AI revolution - the most significant technological innovation since the World Wide Web, and possibly the most significant ever.

I was recently interviewed by Gary Fox, the founder of The Entrepreneur Experiment, a podcast that explores the world of entrepreneurship and innovation.

I’ve been having back-to-back conversations about the AI agentic future for a few months now, and I’ve found people are throwing this new piece of “agent” jargon around a bit loosely, referring to pretty distinct things.

An ungraceful restart of my Home Assistant host left me with a corrupted sqlite3 database.

Dylan Collins and I recorded a podcast on the early days of Demonware, a video games middleware company we co-founded in 2003.

Here is a highly detailed guide to how I built my floorplan UI for my Home Assistant-based smart home.