This industry has always been crazy. Like, bonkers speed of change crazy. Break-the-world-as-we-know-it crazy. The-reason-management-stopped-working-for-us crazy. Nobody-knows-quite-what-to-do-with-us crazy.

Now, we have decided that even what we thought we knew needs disrupting and throwing way up in the air to see where it all lands. However, if there’s one thing I’m sure of from my time working in technology, it’s that most of us don’t have the foggiest idea what’s actually going on. That we actually think because the details change from year to year, month to month, day to day and sometimes even hour to hour, that nothing is true. Nothing is always right, and spending time and effort trying to discern anything that slows the train is not worth it.

So when the hype around AI gets to deafening levels, and piercing pitch I really want to be able to sit it out and let the snake eat itself. However, I’m struggling in the madness to find a quiet place to just be. So I have to speak out.

I’m going to start a series on AI. Shocker.

What I hope to do is part analysis, part therapeutic - a record of what I see as the blind side of the industry, played out at gigantic scale and ridiculous timescales. I don’t think any of it will be groundbreaking - you can find people saying this, you can read research showing this. However it seems to get drowned out by the clamour for yet another big thing, another attempt at grabbing your attention and being the next big name in the next big thing. I don’t want that. I just want to say my truth, to get my thoughts out of my head and down on paper so I can process it. As a bonus, I’ll get to look back in a few months time and marvel at what I did or didn’t think back then.

So, I need to get this off my chest.