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  "about": "Writing by Sean Blakeley on AI strategy, delivery and leadership. One idea a week.",
  "docs": "https://seanblakeley.com/agents/",
  "licence": "© Sean Blakeley. You may quote with credit and a link to the original article. All other rights reserved.",
  "cite": "Sean Blakeley, seanblakeley.com. https://seanblakeley.com/writing/",
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    {
      "title": "Personalisation in an RFP is a red flag",
      "date": "2026-10-21",
      "updated": null,
      "summary": "When I read an RFP, one word often tells me more than the rest of the document: personalisation.",
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        "RFPs",
        "personalisation"
      ],
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      "markdown": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/personalisation-in-an-rfp-is-a-red-flag.md"
    },
    {
      "title": "My ideas live in a lake, not a filing cabinet",
      "date": "2026-10-08",
      "updated": null,
      "summary": "When I think of ideas, they don't feel like index cards in a filing cabinet, they feel like objects bobbing in and out of sight on a lake.",
      "tags": [
        "atomic notes",
        "creativity"
      ],
      "url": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/my-ideas-live-in-a-lake/",
      "markdown": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/my-ideas-live-in-a-lake.md"
    },
    {
      "title": "Projects fall apart over the definition of success",
      "date": "2026-10-01",
      "updated": null,
      "summary": "Projects rarely fail due to technical issues. In twenty-five years I can think of very few examples.",
      "tags": [
        "definition of success",
        "delivery"
      ],
      "url": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/projects-fall-apart-over-the-definition-of-success/",
      "markdown": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/projects-fall-apart-over-the-definition-of-success.md"
    },
    {
      "title": "I'm not worried about the 20-something. I'm worried for the 40-year-old",
      "date": "2026-09-24",
      "updated": null,
      "summary": "I'm not worried about the 20-something entering the industry today. I'm worried for the 40-year-old already here.",
      "tags": [
        "experience",
        "judgement"
      ],
      "url": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/im-worried-for-the-40-year-old/",
      "markdown": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/im-worried-for-the-40-year-old.md"
    },
    {
      "title": "I'm not trying to protect yesterday",
      "date": "2026-09-17",
      "updated": null,
      "summary": "I've grown up alongside the internet. I've delivered across design, UX, engineering, SEO, performance, security, hosting, infrastructure, integrations. The…",
      "tags": [
        "change",
        "leadership"
      ],
      "url": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/im-not-trying-to-protect-yesterday/",
      "markdown": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/im-not-trying-to-protect-yesterday.md"
    },
    {
      "title": "This is not the time to back one AI horse",
      "date": "2026-09-10",
      "updated": null,
      "summary": "A lot of technologists are currently being forced to make decisions, declarations, and builds around AI that they are simply not ready to make.",
      "tags": [
        "vendor lock-in",
        "AI strategy"
      ],
      "url": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/this-is-not-the-time-to-back-one-horse/",
      "markdown": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/this-is-not-the-time-to-back-one-horse.md"
    },
    {
      "title": "AI is the great leveller",
      "date": "2026-09-03",
      "updated": null,
      "summary": "AI is the great leveller.",
      "tags": [
        "engineering",
        "curiosity"
      ],
      "url": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/ai-is-the-great-leveller/",
      "markdown": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/ai-is-the-great-leveller.md"
    },
    {
      "title": "Client-built apps are advanced prototypes, not production code",
      "date": "2026-08-27",
      "updated": null,
      "summary": "A client recently presented us with a self-built app and asked us to make it production-ready.",
      "tags": [
        "vibe coding",
        "prototypes"
      ],
      "url": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/client-built-apps-are-advanced-prototypes/",
      "markdown": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/client-built-apps-are-advanced-prototypes.md"
    },
    {
      "title": "The learning system beats the agentic swarm",
      "date": "2026-08-20",
      "updated": null,
      "summary": "I've been heavily focused on AI usage in recent years. Since the early days of AI, I have been seduced by the idea of a single, deep collaborator. Not just…",
      "tags": [
        "learning systems",
        "AI harness"
      ],
      "url": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/the-learning-system-beats-the-agentic-swarm/",
      "markdown": "https://seanblakeley.com/writing/the-learning-system-beats-the-agentic-swarm.md"
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