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Field notes on the AI industry and applied AI, from a practitioner in Plymouth. Plain English, sources shown, no hype. This page is the five-minute tour.
45 articles · five shelves · written by Brandon Allen
What this is
The field notebook of a working AI engineer. One person, in Plymouth, writing up the industry as it lands: the labs and their models, the money underneath them, the policy and safety questions, and the practical on-prem work.
Every piece is written from primary sources where they exist, labelled where they do not, and kept between 600 and 800 words. No churn, no content farming, no AI-written prose. If a week has nothing worth saying, the journal is quiet.
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Can Britain Pay Its Own Engineers Enough to Keep Them?
A DeepMind hiring post offering up to $1.1m for one engineer, read from the receiving end of a country that cannot match it.
The Unopened Register
The AI build's money followed from the cheque to the concrete. Who holds the risk is the question nobody has written down.
The First Entry
The IMF's half-yearly check-up names an AI-driven correction as one of three top risks, and opens the register.
Your Insurer Is the New Banker
The next money for the build is insurance money. The accounts show what the patient money buys, and what the collateral is.
Three Names, One Machine
One product, three names, and three very different answers to who can read your work after you leave.
The Friend That Never Sleeps
A state's full case against Character.AI, transcripts included. No court has tested any of it.
Show Your Working: Why Students Can Tell Who Has Done the Work
Why students can tell who has done the work, and what that means for everyone else.
Or browse the five shelves: The Industry · Power & Policy · Standards & Safety · Practice · Education & Talent
The rules of the house
- Sources are opened, not summarised from summaries. When a primary document is paywalled, the piece says so, in the piece.
- Every claim is labelled: confirmed, reported, calculated, or not confirmed. The readout at the foot of each piece separates them.
- Corrections are dated, never silent.
- The words are written by a person. No AI-written prose, ever, and the tooling that exists is disclosed in the method block.
- One bespoke visual per piece, drawn by hand for that piece, and never the last piece's device twice.
- 600 to 800 words. Plain English. Dates in full, no em dashes.
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