Chris Parsons
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Webinar: AI Can Do (Most Of) Your Work
Next session: October 8, 2:00pm Earlier this year I let 44 AI skills run most of my consulting business. Since then I have taken that setup apart and replaced it with a team of agents. My new setup is more secure and easier to use than ever. Yours can be too. If you cannot make it, sign up anyway to grab the recording and slides. One AI that knew everything made me lazy about the work I am paid to think about. Now each agent does one job and hands me the decisions.
(I Think Whilst) Writing With AI
For thousands of years we have treated writing as proof of thinking. You could not produce a fluent, well-argued piece without doing some thinking along the way. That is no longer true.
Ship Like an Engineer Without Writing Any Code
This post is based on a workshop given on 24th September 2026 at design+AI. Building a working prototype with AI is easy now: ask Claude to build you something cool and it will. Shipping that prototype, so that it is live and useful and does not fall over, is a different problem. On Thursday I spent a morning in Brighton with a room of designers and product people working through the practices engineers rely on to make that second part possible. We did not write any code ourselves. The agent did all of that.
Time To Hire An AI Head
For a long time I have wanted to hand AI a senior job. When I was a CTO, this was the kind of work I would have delegated to a head of department: take a loosely described outcome, work out what it really needs, split it up, get other people to do the pieces, and come back with something finished while I got on with my own work.
Call It Machine Intelligence
Donald Trump wants a better name for artificial intelligence. On Saturday he called the words “inaccurate, and very ineloquent”, and asked his followers to vote between Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence and Supreme Intelligence.1 He is right that the name is wrong, and I have a better option than any of his three.
AI Decisions Just Got 100 Times Cheaper
Prompt engineering has always been rubbish. I wrote early last year about how it is the punch card era of programming all over again. If AI was so good at writing its own text, why could it not write the prompts as well?