From Lab to Life17 Aug 2026 · Essay
The Mixed Fleet
Can a frontier orchestrator on a subscription delegate to local open-weight models?
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The thesisChasing Jarvis: The Bottleneck Was Never the CodeWe are learning to build and ship real digital products using AI coding agents. The gap between idea and shipped product is no longer technical, it is contextual.The methodEvery Product Needs a HomeBuilding a modern website in the age of AI agents: a manual, told through the new website of The CuratorThe researchContext as Architecture: Full-Corpus Grounding, Orchestrated Agentic Development, and Compliance-by-Design in a Production AI Assistant PlatformThis paper reports a longitudinal design-science case study of a single production artefact — Lumina, a multi-tenant AI assistant platform — across two complete generations built fourteen months apart in capability terms and seven months apart in calendar terms.
From Lab to Life8 Jul 2026 · Essay
The Fight for Intelligence
Putting the Organisation of Tomorrow to Work; Use Cases, Vendor Independence, and the Brain Behind the Framework
From Lab to Life1 Jul 2026 · Essay
Anthropic Shipped Two Models This Week. I Only Wanted One Back.
Two Anthropic announcements 24 hours apart. Sonnet 5 (30 June) becomes the new default, and its real story is follow-through on multi-step tasks.
From Lab to Life18 Jun 2026 · Essay
16x Cheaper, Open Weights, and the Model That Doesn't Disappear on Fridays
Compares Kimi K2.7 and Claude Fable 5 using real production data (24 landing pages, 12 prompts).
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