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 →AI opens the sale. It doesn't close it.
Your customer's first move isn't Google any more. It's a conversation with a machine, and that machine is writing your shortlist before anyone visits your site.
Your AI stack is now a supply-chain risk
The most useful AI story this week is not another model leaderboard.
Your AI problem is not the model. It is the mess inside the business.
There was a time, not very long ago, when the AI story was basically "look at the model".
Fast notes from the messy middle of AI adoption.
View all Diary posts →Grok subscriptions now work inside Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent now supports xAI Grok OAuth, so a Grok subscription can power reasoning, voice and image/video generation inside a persistent open-source agent.
UGC-Style AI Video Is Getting Dangerously Close
A short X video is a useful signal: AI-generated UGC-style ads are moving from novelty toward something brands will actually test in the wild.
SAP + Anthropic: Claude Becomes Core of SAP's AI Platform
SAP is embedding Claude as a primary reasoning and agentic capability across SAP Business AI Platform. The enterprise agent thesis is moving from pitch to product.
Relevant GitHub changes worth paying attention to.
View all RepoWatch posts →llama.cpp Releases b9637
New release and SYCL optimisation from the leading C++ LLM inference library.
llama.cpp and local inference tooling updates
New releases and commits in llama.cpp, unsloth, llama-cpp-python and related projects improving GPU support and stability.
Transformers 5.12.0 and local inference stack updates
Hugging Face Transformers v5.12.0 released alongside updates to Unsloth, Llama.cpp, Ollama and GGML.
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.