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
At noon Sydney time, ten million addresses disappeared
July 2026At 11am Sydney time, the new OpenSearch cluster held about ten million Australian addresses. At noon, the next CloudWatch reading counted just seven addresses. At 1:00:59pm, the failed logins began. By the time the import was stopped, the audit log…
The snake oil in no-code and low-code was the promise
July 2026AI has made code cheaper to produce. It has also made the limits of the low-code pitch easier to see. No-code and low-code tools work. They can speed up forms, workflows, internal apps and routine automation. The problem was the larger promise…
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…