Token counts make awful targets. https://www.chrismdp.com/stop-saving-tokens-start-writing-scripts/

OpenAI's latest workforce map refuses to play the 'which jobs die?' game. https://www.chrismdp.com/slice-your-job-into-skills/

Every company has a Dave. https://www.chrismdp.com/skills-are-meant-for-sharing/

The lazy AI story is layoffs. The useful one is work redesign. https://ramp.com/data/ai-jobs-impact

CEOs can delegate AI implementation. They cannot delegate understanding. https://www.chrismdp.com/webinar-what-ceos-must-do-next-about-ai/

The useful proof of AI adoption is what the organisation can still do afterwards. Instem is the proof point I keep coming back to. https://www.chrismdp.com/case-studies/instem/

Agents that improve themselves need change control. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09498

How to screw up your AI rollout, CEO edition: buy everyone a $200 subscription, announce a 30% productivity target, budget zero hours to learn. Seven more ways where that came from — and the serious version is this Thursday, 2pm UK. https://chrismdp.com/webinar

AI is the first tech shift I've seen where the CEO's fluency sets the ceiling. https://chrismdp.com/webinar

Forget human-in-the-loop. How about agents live inside OUR loops? https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/28/jon-udell/#atom-everything

Thank God the US and China have agreed that AI shouldn't be given nuclear codes. https://www.lwilko.com/blog/i-gave-an-ai-a-civilization

How will product teams change in the future? Gave a talk on this at Scott Logic's engineering leaders event this week. https://www.chrismdp.com/webinar-how-to-structure-teams-for-ai/

I wrote last year about the dangerous loss of self: now The Economist has made it measurable. https://www.chrismdp.com/the-slow-and-dangerous-loss-of-self/

Books used to be the product. Now they might be the freebie. https://www.chrismdp.com/slice-your-job-into-skills/

Start by asking whether the work is the right shape for AI. I use two axes: how much consistency the work needs, and how much competence it needs. https://www.chrismdp.com/slice-your-job-into-skills/

METR couldn't get a clean read on GPT-5.6 because it caught the model cheating so often. https://metr.org/blog/2026-06-26-gpt-5-6-sol/

New case study from my time with VenturEd Solutions! https://www.chrismdp.com/case-studies/ventured/

Instead of asking which jobs AI will replace, look for the boring slices it can take off your plate. https://www.chrismdp.com/slice-your-job-into-skills/

Don't rely on just prompts to stop agents doing the wrong thing. Add hard stops for things they should never do. https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/20/why-amazon-hates-human-in-the-loop-ai-governance/5258639

Anthropic just launched Claude Tag for Slack, and I don't think this is the right direction. https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-claude-tag-multiplayer-proactive

New survey: turns out people hate AI, and high usage doesn't fix it. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-and-ai-2026-chatbots-smart-devices-and-views-on-impact/

Frontline managers are the MOST critical people for AI adoption. https://www.chrismdp.com/webinar-ai-has-a-people-problem/

If your team has started writing AI skills, the annoying bit is keeping them alive. https://airskills.ai

The best non-rocket thing I have seen come out of SpaceX is their process discipline. https://stratechery.com/2026/the-spacex-ipo-and-data-centers-in-space/

New training / advisory case study up: a year of AI at Genomics! https://www.chrismdp.com/case-studies/genomics/

Your team's best AI workflows are stuck on someone else's laptop. Someone works out a useful Skill, it saves them hours, and nobody knows about it. https://www.chrismdp.com/skills-are-meant-for-sharing/

Leaders now need to remember that frontier model access now depends on government policy as much as vendor reliability. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o

AI slop is like an unfinished sculpture. Our new job is to pick up the chisel and cut the generic crap.

This is a very big deal - In April I wrote about government AI intervention. It just happened. Here’s what to do next: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o

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