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Your AI Agent Is a Contractor. Treat It Like One.

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0100

For a big part of my career I was the contractor. Consultancy after consultancy, client after client. And one thing kept surprising me: the team that was supposed to help us was often the least helpful group in the building.

Access requests took weeks. Questions got one-line answers, if any. In meetings we were the outsiders who didn’t know how things worked here, the ones who would break something, the expensive people who needed everything explained twice. Sometimes it was subtle. Sometimes it was not subtle at all.

The AI-Native Internal Developer Platform

Tue, 26 May 2026 10:00:00 +0100

Internal Developer Platforms have a well-known dirty secret: most developers do not use them. The platform team builds something genuinely useful — curated pipelines, Terraform modules, Helm charts, GitOps patterns, cost guardrails — wraps it in a service catalogue, adds a web portal, writes runbooks, and waits. Adoption trickles in, usually driven by mandate rather than enthusiasm.

This is not a technology problem. It is a distribution problem. The platform team solved the right problem and delivered it to the wrong address.