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Are We Building the Right Thing, or How GenAI Made Us Forget to Ask
I was listening to the A/B Testing podcast the other day, episode 229, where Alan Page had my friend Chris Armstrong on as a guest. At one point they were talking about Verification and Validation. Two concepts that have been around forever. Two simple questions, really. "Are we building the thing right?" That's verification. "Are we building the right thing?" That's validation.
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This morning attending UNESCO consultation for UN AI policy. I wrote some short notes relevant to their concerns on things I haven't said enough before, eg transparency must be UP into power, not surveillance; Human centring is not just "oversight," but competent, accountable deployment. Link below
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Liz Kendall urges UK public to embrace AI as government makes first £500m fund investment | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
Technology secretary plays down fears over jobs and cyber security as stake taken in British startup
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The Waterfall Strikes Back
As of when writing this post in the first days of April 2026, the vibe coding community is buzzing about "Spec-Driven Development." Write a perfect specification, let the AI agents loose, sit back, and watch the magic happen. Revolutionary, right? For me, it feels like a déjà vu from the 2000s. Back then, we called it Waterfall or V-Model. The idea was the same: define everything upfront, hand it over to the people who build it, and collect your finished product at the end.
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Voor het eerst in 15 jaar naar de sportschool geweest Laten we zeggen dat in de basis de benodigde spieren voor de oefeningen aanwezig zijn
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