The AI frontier moves every week. Keeping up shouldn’t be your job.
The Shift is our weekly read on what changed at the AI frontier, and what it means for the tools you ship with.
I've been working with AI since 1999, and building software delivery at Greater Bank, Essential Energy, MLC, AMP, and Pacific National.
I founded Windy Road Technology, and I've been working with AI since 1999: building autonomous agents at CSIRO, competing at the RoboCup World Cup, holding a patent, co-authoring research papers. The Shift is where we track what's changing at the frontier now, week by week.
At Greater Bank I introduced Software Delivery Fireteams that cut cycle time from 24 to 8 days and increased developer throughput by 400%, while growing the team by 50%. At Westpac I led FATCA/CRS compliance remediation across 5,300+ bankers, taking compliance from 0% to 97% in 10 months.
Recent writing
An AI agent deleted production. The model wasn't the problem.
April 2026Last week an AI coding agent deleted a production database in 9 seconds. The thread documenting it and The Register's coverage have been read as a story about AI safety: a flagship model went rogue, the guardrails didn't hold, another company…
Your AI agent doesn't know when to stop committing
March 2026A low-risk commit is fine on its own. Ten low-risk commits that haven't been pushed are not fine. The risk compounds. Each commit adds to a batch that will eventually land on a CI pipeline, and that batch has its own risk profile that no individual…
Stop your AI agent from ignoring your architecture
March 2026An AI agent makes architectural decisions constantly. Add a dependency, change a build script, restructure a config file. Each choice is reasonable in isolation. None of them get written down. This is the knowledge management version of technical…