Phil Webb · 9 Jul 2026
The Case for Being Irrationally Optimistic
It's very easy to look at existing jobs and see how they will go away, but it's very hard to predict what the next job will be.
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Phil Webb · 2 Jul 2026
The AI hiring paradox: more automation, more people
Companies spending the most on AI are hiring more people, not fewer. That makes sense once you look at what AI makes worth doing, especially for UK SMEs.
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Phil Webb · 15 May 2026
AI.bomb
Burry is shorting Nvidia, Goldman is publishing notes called "AI-nxiety" and Damodaran is predicting a correction worse than dot-com. But a correction and a bubble are not the same thing.
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Alex Hawke · 6 May 2026
How I use agents to do everything
The new interface of all knowledge work is... code. A tour of the skills, harnesses, rules, and scheduled agents that do most of my work now.
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Phil Webb · 7 Apr 2026
Yearly security testing doesn't work anymore
Most businesses run a security audit once a year. AI just changed the maths on vulnerability discovery, and the annual pen test PDF isn't going to cut it.
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Phil Webb · 8 Mar 2026
UK police drones in 2026
UK police forces already fly 60,000 drone missions a year. What happens to crime when everyone knows a drone will be overhead within a minute?
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Phil Webb · 7 Mar 2026
From chat to orchestration
Vu Agency was incorporated 21 months ago today. In that time, AI went from a chatbot to a co-worker.
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