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Writing on AI, low-code and automation
Practical perspectives for technology and business leaders, written from the work I do: what enterprise low-code is really for, where AI earns its place, and how to keep control of the systems you depend on. Every piece is a short read, and every one is mine.
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The most asked-about piece, and the best place to start if you are weighing up low-code platforms.
The Low-Code Landscape: How Liberty Create Stacks Up Against the Industry Heavyweights
A comparison of Netcall Liberty Create against the major enterprise low-code platforms.
The demand for rapid application development has turned low-code platforms from niche IT tools into enterprise necessities. This article looks at where Liberty Create sits against the industry heavyweights on governance, integration, cost and the day-to-day experience of the people who build on it.
Topic 01
Enterprise low-code
Where the return really comes from, how to choose a platform, how to staff a team, and how to stop paying for the same capability five times over.
Building a High-Impact Low-Code Team: A Strategic Hiring Guide
How to hire and structure an effective low-code development team. As development shifts toward rapid, agentic and context-aware solutions, the low-code developer's role has changed, and so should the job description.
- Hiring
- Teams
The Low-Code Landscape: How Liberty Create Stacks Up Against the Industry Heavyweights
A comparison of Netcall Liberty Create against the major enterprise low-code platforms, for organisations facing developer shortages and a growing backlog.
- Liberty Create
- Platforms
Reining in the Sprawl: Using Enterprise Low-Code to Slash Subscription Costs
Consolidating SaaS sprawl and cutting subscription costs with enterprise low-code. The cheap subscription is an illusion once a business has forty of them.
- Cost
- SaaS sprawl
The Real ROI of Low-Code isn’t solely in the Build. It’s in the entire software lifecycle.
Not solely in the build.
Why low-code's true return shows up in maintenance and operation, not just the build phase. Engineers who dismiss it are usually only looking at the first two hours.
- ROI
- Lifecycle
The Benefits of Low-Code in the Vibe Code Era
How enterprise low-code delivers durable value as AI-assisted "vibe coding" rises. Speed of first draft is not the same as speed of delivery.
- Vibe coding
- AI agents
Topic 02
Applied AI
AI in real delivery work: why System One models are the most useful release of the year, what changed a sceptic's mind, what the co-pilot wave gets wrong, and the hangover that follows prompt-and-pray development.
The Model That Refuses to Talk
Why "System One" AI is the most interesting thing to happen to production AI this year.
Jev does not generate text. It returns a typed decision with a calibrated probability, in a single pass, for a fraction of the cost of an LLM. Where that changes the economics of production AI, and the one claim to be careful with.
- System One
- AI agents
Prompt-and-Pray: The Vibe Coding Hangover
The hidden risks and technical debt behind AI-generated "prompt-and-pray" development. The demo is always flawless. The third month rarely is.
- Vibe coding
- Technical debt
Moving Past the Hype: From AI Co-Pilots to True Contextual Intelligence
Why generic AI co-pilots fall short and what genuine contextual intelligence requires. A chat box bolted onto every SaaS product is not the same as an assistant that knows your business.
- Co-pilots
- Context
From Skeptic to Advocate: 18 Months in AI and What’s to Come
A practitioner's journey from AI scepticism to advocacy, and predictions for what comes next. Eighteen months ago the landscape was parlour tricks and six-fingered hands. It is not any more.
- Opinion
- Adoption
Topics 03 and 04
Intelligent automation and digital sovereignty
Two bigger-picture pieces: how automation is converging into something smarter than task-by-task scripting, and why European organisations are rethinking where their data and systems live.
Part 1: The Breach of Trust
How the illusion of a borderless web shattered Europe's digital complacency.
Part one of a series on digital sovereignty. For decades the European approach to the digital world assumed the web had no borders and its providers no allegiances. That assumption has not survived contact with reality.
- Series · Part 1
- Digital sovereignty
The Convergence of Automation: Powering the Intelligent Enterprise
How automation is shifting from "doing things faster" to "doing things smarter" across the enterprise, as process automation, integration and AI stop being separate projects.
- Intelligent automation
- Integration
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