The Great AI Retreat - Why 'Returning to Research' Is an Escape From the Hard Work of Building Products

The Great AI Retreat - Why 'Returning to Research' Is an Escape From the Hard Work of Building Products

Explore why the AI industry's pivot to 'fundamental research' is a strategic retreat from the hard realities of productization. This post argues that the future of AI depends on disciplined engineering, not just theoretical breakthroughs.

The Learning Illusion - How We Built a Sophisticated Parrot and Mistook It for a Hawk

The Learning Illusion - How We Built a Sophisticated Parrot and Mistook It for a Hawk

Current AI is a sophisticated parrot, not a true learner. Discover why neuro-symbiotic frameworks and growth loops are the real path to adaptive cognition, moving beyond the illusion of deep learning.

The Scaling Arms Race Is Over - The Application Age Has Begun

The Scaling Arms Race Is Over - The Application Age Has Begun

A deep-dive into why the AI industry is shifting from a focus on scaling foundational models to building value at the application layer, driven by the new realities of cost, speed, and model commoditization.

The MCP Reckoning: Why the Protocol Never Worked and What Comes Next

The MCP Reckoning: Why the Protocol Never Worked and What Comes Next

Anthropic's code execution with MCP isn't innovation. It's an admission the original paradigm was broken. Here's what comes next.

Building a Non-Worthless MCP Server: Production Architecture Checklist

Building a Non-Worthless MCP Server: Production Architecture Checklist

Most MCP servers are prototypes. Here's the engineering checklist for building production-grade infrastructure.

Return of the king: Open AI's Christmas Nightmare

Return of the king: Open AI's Christmas Nightmare

We now have a cheap, fast and highly capable alternative from Google to build agentic flows.

The lie of Agentic Frameworks

The lie of Agentic Frameworks

A critical analysis of Agentic AI frameworks.

Exploring Built-in AI for Chrome: The Prompt API

Exploring Built-in AI for Chrome: The Prompt API

Discover Chrome's Built-in AI. This deep dive explores speed, cost, and usability advantages, testing the limits of embedded AI in browsers. Leverage in-browser LLMs for interesting AI solutions.

A forensic analysis of the Claude Sonnet 3.5 system prompt

A forensic analysis of the Claude Sonnet 3.5 system prompt

Claude 3.5 Sonnet artifacts are to structured output such as code generation, what vector retrieval is to rag. It is the search and retrieval system for structured output.

Building a data privacy analyser using AI. Robot eating cookies.

Building a data privacy analyser using AI. Robot eating cookies.

Discover the journey of building a cutting-edge AI data privacy tool with five integrated AI APIs. Explore the challenges, costs, and lessons learned in using AI for advancing data privacy.

Generative AI: Cracking nuts with a sledgehammer

Generative AI: Cracking nuts with a sledgehammer

Generative AI is misunderstood as a sentient tool that is capable of expert, highly qualified output. The truth is, Generative AI is capable of performing enormous amounts of work, to an intermediate (at best) level.

AI powered voice chat in June 2024: Lipstick on a pig

AI powered voice chat in June 2024: Lipstick on a pig

I built a simple version of OpenAIs voice functionality, using Groq, Llama3, NextJS, DeepGram, SpeechRecognitionAPI. Talk, listen and converse with LLMs.

Why tyingshoelaces.com?

Why tyingshoelaces.com?

Chapter one. How did we get here. The beginning of a journey through tech.

The Gladiator meets Silicon Valley

The Gladiator meets Silicon Valley

Human nature, large corporations, politics all mixed into a juicy cocktail about the dynamics of power in big tech. With swords.

Introducing Privacy Trek

Introducing Privacy Trek

Next generation AI powered privacy automation tool. Analyse any web surface for privacy leaks. Why we are building it.

About Edward Burton

Edward is a full-stack developer and technology leader with 15+ years of experience