Extending the Experiment

Extending the Experiment I saw this TechRadar article and thought—what would ChatGPT say about “EA”? Spoiler: ChatGPT first assumed I meant Executive Assistant—and honestly, it nailed it. They’re the understated powerhouse behind the scenes. The TechRadar piece that sparked this reads beautifully simple: a Senior Data Analytics Consultant becomes “someone who counts toys and tells people which toys are played with the most.” A journalist turns into a curious storyteller, a management consultant is a fixer of lemonade stands, a CTO is a ship’s technology captain steering through storms. It’s equal parts hilarious and enlightening—stripping away jargon to reveal the human heart of a job. Read it here ...

September 4, 2025 · 4 min

Project Brief: TEC Tahatū CV & Cover Letter Builder (Vendor Simulation)

Context for new readers: This document builds on my earlier blog about vibe coding an RFI where I explored whether a single “vibe coder” could respond to a government Request for Information (RFI) and even begin building the product. Here, I’ve reframed that exercise as a formal project brief, as if written by a product vendor. It also includes an architectural view to highlight what an internal team might consider. 1. Executive Brief (Senior Executive) Context: TEC seeks to add a CV and Cover Letter building capability to its Tahatū Career Navigator site. Purpose: Support learners to create tailored, professional documents integrated into the wider careers ecosystem. ...

August 27, 2025 · 3 min

Quick post: Transformer Explainer

Relatively short post today. I came across this amazing tool called Transformer Explainer. It lets you see how a Transformer model (like GPT-2) actually works, layer by layer, right in your browser. You can watch tokens flow through embeddings, self-attention, and MLPs, and even play around with parameters like temperature and top-k to see how text generation changes. Check it out here: https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ Written for KiwiGPT.co.nz — Generated, Published and Tinkered with AI by a Kiwi ...

August 26, 2025 · 1 min

From Retail to Robots: The Evolution of Customer Channels

Once upon a time, customer service meant walking into a building. If you needed to pay a bill, change a booking or renew your licence, you went to the branch down the road. Banks, shops, post offices, council offices — all ran on face-to-face chats and paper forms. It worked, but it came with queues, short hours, and a long drive if you lived out in the wop wops. Then came the phone. In the 80s and 90s, private companies jumped on 0800 numbers and central call centres so you did not have to show up in person. Government got on board too, but it was slower going. Often you still had to ring the right regional office, and sometimes that meant calling three different numbers. For private businesses, the phone was a way to win customers. For government, it was more about easing the pressure on the counter. ...

August 24, 2025 · 3 min

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August 15, 2025 · 1 min

What Is MCP? The AI Protocol Bridging Models and Tools

MCP—or Model Context Protocol—is the latest open standard that’s supercharging AI agents by giving them a reliable, universal connection to tools, services, and data. Imagine AI as a savvy assistant… but one stuck in a room with no windows. Until now, every new tool—whether a database, file system, or API—needed a bespoke connection. MCP breaks those walls down. It gives AI the ability to speak a consistent “plug-and-play” language, no matter what it’s connecting to.1 ...

July 28, 2025 · 2 min

Vibe Coding – Programming by Feel with AI

Summary “A new way of coding is emerging where AI writes most of the code and humans just guide the process — meet vibe coding.” Vibe coding is a buzzworthy approach to software development where developers (and even non-developers) describe what they want in natural language, and a Large Language Model (LLM) generates the code. Instead of meticulously crafting every line, humans focus on testing, tweaking, and guiding the AI’s output—letting the “vibes” steer the process. ...

June 10, 2025 · 2 min

Enterprise Architecture in the World of Agile and AI

Enterprise Architecture (EA) has long been about the big picture—vision, strategy, and ensuring the technology landscape doesn’t collapse under the weight of its own complexity. Agile, on the other hand, is all about delivering value fast, embracing change, and avoiding big upfront designs. When these two worlds meet… sparks fly. Agile vs EA — The Friendly (Mostly) Tension From Agile’s perspective: “Why are we waiting for an architecture review when customers want this feature yesterday?” “We value working software over comprehensive documentation… remember?” From EA’s perspective: ...

June 12, 2024 · 2 min

Context Is All You Need — Why AI Cares About Context

In the world of AI, context isn’t just helpful—it’s everything. Whether it’s the billions of tokens in a language model’s attention mechanism, the rapidly shifting mosaic of user intent, or the structured metadata keeping facts grounded, context defines what AI can do. 1. A Foundation Built on Attention The 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need” introduced the Transformer model, which revolutionized deep learning by letting models process all parts of a sequence in parallel using self-attention. No more recurrences—just powerful, context-aware computation. Since then, it’s become the backbone of modern models like GPT, BERT, and beyond. 1 ...

April 23, 2024 · 2 min

Hello World is All You Need

Hello World Attention is All You Need “Attention is All You Need” - the paper that revolutionized artificial intelligence and gave birth to the transformer architecture that powers modern AI systems like GPT, BERT, and countless others. The Revolutionary Paper Published in 2017 by Vaswani et al., “Attention is All You Need” introduced the transformer architecture that would become the foundation of modern AI. This paper marked a paradigm shift from recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to attention-based architectures. ...

January 15, 2024 · 2 min