Chris Parsons

This post is based on a workshop given on 24th September 2026 at design+AI.

For a long time I have wanted to hand AI a senior job.

Donald Trump wants a better name for artificial intelligence.

A new kind of model is out.

A new kind of model is out.

AI systems can finish longer tasks and recover from more mistakes.

Coding with AI feels like the wrong title for these articles now.

On 10 September 2026, I gave a webinar about the part of an AI rollout that never gets budgeted.

Over the last couple of nights I have been building a text adventure RPG, mostly to see what Astra could do.

AI companies have committed nearly $10bn in the last year to Forward Deployed Engineering teams.

The hardest thing about running an arm’s length software factory has been anything that touches UX.

DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 is doing better than I expected.

I am just back from a family holiday, and the model releases that happened while I was away show that AI models are becoming interchangeable faster than AI strategies can keep up.

On 9 July 2026, I gave a webinar about the AI decisions that only a chief executive can make.

We built our companies to make software, because software used to be expensive to make.

Ask most people how they feel about AI and the answer is worry, not excitement.

One of the engineers on a team I train built something genuinely clever: a tool that turned plain questions into the gnarly database queries his team ran by hand a dozen times a day.