Less hype. More operating reality.
AI is going to change businesses, teams and jobs faster than most people are ready for. This is my public notebook for making sense of it, building through it, and turning noise into useful systems.
Diary
Short notes, fresh observations and things I have noticed this week.
Go to Diary → Ideas / frameworks / signalInsights
Longer thinking, operator lessons, news interpretation and practical takes.
Go to Insights → Builds / experiments / workstreamsProjects
The bigger things being built in public, plus the journals attached to them.
Go to Projects → GitHub / tooling / what changedRepoWatch
Regular notes on GitHub changes, releases and repo signals that look commercially or operationally relevant.
Go to RepoWatch → Briefings / watchable versionsVideos
Short explainers, demos and spoken versions of the argument.
Go to Videos →The AI model you ask for may not be the one doing the work
Anthropic put Claude Fable 5 back into global circulation this week, after a messy stretch of export controls, cyber safeguards and jailbreak worries.
Stop asking AI to run the whole process
A lot of people are building AI agents the way a tired manager briefs a new hire on their worst day.
Your website is about to need a tool surface, not just a nice homepage
We have spent years designing websites for people to click.
Fast notes from the messy middle of AI adoption.
View all Diary posts →Frontier AI is becoming operating infrastructure.
Five signals from this week point in the same direction: access, security, compliance, agency economics and campaign infrastructure are now the real AI story.
Estonia is giving AI agents the missing piece: accountable identity
Estonia says it will move forward with official digital identities for AI agents, so delegated software can act with limited rights and a clear audit trail. This is agent infrastructure with legal consequences.
Accenture Song is pointing AI at the marketing spreadsheet
Ad Age reports that Accenture Song is launching Marketing Investment Navigator, using Amazon Ads data and agentic AI to analyse cross-channel media performance. The useful signal is measurement, not another dashboard.
Relevant GitHub changes worth paying attention to.
View all RepoWatch posts →Transformers 5.13 shows the Hugging Face upgrade tax
Transformers 5.13 adds useful new model support, but the same watchlist run already shows downstream compatibility fixes landing around it.
Unsloth exposes an MLX-aware trainer API
Unsloth has added a public trainer path that knows about MLX, which makes Apple Silicon local fine-tuning experiments less of a private Studio-only trick.
llama.cpp b9859 adds precompiled OpenCL kernels for Adreno
llama.cpp can now load a Qualcomm Adreno binary kernel library for selected OpenCL paths, making Snapdragon-class local inference a more practical test target.
Real workstreams, experiments and project journals.
View all Projects →Agents Trading Lab
A research journal on using agents to observe markets, reason about setups and test bounded trading workflows.
Research journal only. No financial advice. No live trading claims unless explicitly documented.
Web-based Ads Tool
A web-based tool for planning, generating, testing and learning from ad campaigns without turning the process into generic ad slop.
Cleo
A creative technology group helping brands move from rented attention to owned engagement.
Foundry
The implementation vehicle for Jason's AI, marketing and operating-system work.
Zenko
A protocol for purposeful engagement where attention becomes action, action creates value, and value funds real-world good.
Map the AI disruption inside your business before you buy another tool.
For serious owners, founders, marketers and operators: Foundry turns the diary’s public thinking into private diagnosis, implementation plans and working systems.