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 →Your AI will not improve unless the work leaves a trail
The next serious AI advantage is not a better prompt. It is an evidence loop: work that can be observed, corrected, tested and improved.
The if is over. AI agents are about to start spending money.
AI agents can now transact, not just reason. The real operating challenge is no longer output quality alone. It is the behaviour layer: identity, trust, payments, coordination and constraints.
AI token spend is a payroll decision. Most companies are making it wrong.
Most businesses still treat AI token usage like software spend. That misses the point. At scale, token budgets are workforce decisions and should be managed with the same rigor as headcount.
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 b9415 release and local inference updates
New release for llama.cpp alongside updates to whisper.cpp, Unsloth, Ollama and bitsandbytes.
Llama.cpp b9401 release
New release of the core local LLM inference engine with ggml sync.
llama.cpp b9371 Release
llama.cpp releases b9371 with CI refactor.
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.