Engineer, coder, founder and investor. Built a £350m company; now building Luumo Factory. Writing Can’t Be Fired. Hates meetings.
London, UK
Joined March 2011
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All my posts are written by hand. They're better that way, but the temptation to us AI is very real.
Got so annoyed about the Chancellor's budget that I had to write an article just to calm down. Feeling slightly better now. linkedin.com/pulse/founders-…
The weird thing about the insane pace of AI, is that if you've been sat on the sidelines for the last 2 years, you probably only need 1-3 months to play catch-up. There's loads of twists and turns that many of us have been through - if you're starting now, you can just "skip intro"
🤖 Made with AI
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the moat is a founder with childhood trauma and a constant, debilitating fear of not achieving their potential.
Had a lot of fun writing this one. Hope you enjoy it:
AI can't help you if you spend your day talking to colleagues cantbefired.substack.com/p/a…
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I told Claude to make a video about what it's like to be European
One day later...
I guess now we find out which websites were running on PHP, but this one might be my favourite so far
Your employees are quietly robbing you with AI, and you probably deserve it cantbefired.substack.com/p/y…
The UK's had mandatory gender pay gap reporting for 10 years now. I built a tool that tracks how 15,000+ employers have actually performed over that time. Some trends are... not great.
I'll be updating with a few leaderboards over the weekend, once everyone's 2025 filings are in (deadline is Saturday!)
💡 Most people talk about AI in terms of the problems it solves directly.
I think that misses the point.
⏱️The real impact of AI is second- and third-order: it has collapsed the cost and time of building software by an order of magnitude. When software becomes 5× cheaper and 5× faster to create, the business case changes for EVERYTHING.
The closest example I can think of, is injection moulding.
Plastics didn’t just replace wood or metal. Injection moulding made complexity effectively free. Once you’d paid for the mould, adding ribs, clips, textures, snap-fits or hinges cost almost nothing. Entire categories of everyday objects suddenly became worth making - not because demand changed, but because economics did.
AI is doing the same to software.
It doesn’t just automate tasks. It makes bespoke internal tools, edge-case workflows and “nice-to-have” automations suddenly viable. Software becomes disposable, experimental, and abundant - and that quietly reshapes organisations far more than any single AI feature ever will.
📉The cost of bespoke business process software and automation just crashed through the floor. Complexity just became "cheap". Injection moulding changed the everyday lives of most people. AI-built software will too.
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I like em dashes, and I hate that some people now take them as evidence of text being AI generated.