Alan Williamson

I have writing for over 20 years and here is a selection of the posts.

The following is all the articles that have been published for this site.

• [Review] Convoy: The Comprehensive Yet Untold Story
• Dr Marge (Local AI), will see you now
• How to Safely Run AI Agents Locally
• Decoding Corporate Speak
• Big Tech Settlements 2026: $25 Billion in Two Months
• Name the states in the USA
• Turn Plex into a real radio station
• Who Actually Wrote This
• The Java Story – Documentary
• Will AI replace developers?
• AI Won’t Fix Your Mess, It Will Just Expose It
• No, You May Not Record This Meeting
• Hugging Face hacked by OpenAI; show the prompt
• Between a Mugger and the Feds: What Duress Looks Like
• Stripe goes after OpenRouter
• OpenClaw at 35,000 ft
• The Top Decile Trap
• Why AI-Generated Code Needs Technical Oversight, Not More Product Managers
• Finally, rode the Skyline Drive
• Human Slop vs AI Slop
• Getting OpenClaw up and running
• We Are a Campfire, Not a Family
• AI Imposter Syndrome: The Wave You Can’t Skip
• PE has an inventory problem; AI is not the solution
• Beyond the AWS Default: The Cloudflare Alternative
• Roadmap to LLM Filenames: From Quantization to Architecture
• The Risk Premium: Why Your Next AI Integration Should Be Local
• How to run AI locally
• Enterprise Stability: Who’s Cutting Your Grass?
• Jack Clark talks AI sense
• Podcast Episode: Prompting, AI, And Business Chaos
• Simulating Corporate Chaos: Your Own Truman Show
• Behind the Prompt Curtain
• AI is Making Us Artificially Intelligent
• It’s Just a Series of Prompts
• Diligence in the AI Era
• Ride of a life time
• Lack of transparency in AI pricing
• Let me introduce Alan 0.9
• Unlocking the power of MCP
• I like big Macs and I cannot lie
• Why the SaaSpocalypse is over blown
• Unlocking Cursor: Features and Workflow Tips
• Future of AI is not public
• [Review] PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
• Five Nights of Vibe Coding: A Game Experiment
• “Well pick it back up”
• Vibe-factoring Java with Claude
• Planning for the inevitable end
• The Shiny Object Trap: Don’t forego the basics
• Reclaiming Focus: The Lost Art of Downtime
• The Silent Decay to Legacy
• The Hidden “If” in Everything
• The Realities of Software Releases: More Than Just a Button
• Think like a CTO – Japanese Edition
• How AI Agents Will Change Ecommerce
• The Flaws in AI Customer Support Systems
• Rock me Amadeus (& Elvis)
• 2025 in review
• The Inevitable V3 Rewrite
• Double NAT, 40 Terabytes, and a Christmas Miracle
• “This ain’t no technological breakdown”
• The CTO’s Year-End Audit: Are You Building Your Vision or Just a Backlog?
• Morphing into James McAvoy
• Change Management
• Only takes a minute
• Quality
• Consistency
• Empathy
• Art of Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS)
• A day in the AI life of a CTO
• Open Source Means Never Being Stuck
• Simplicity and power of UUID v7
• Why I Love Leonard Cohen: Insights and Musical Highlights
• Inside the FTX Scandal: Michael Lewis on a Crypto Catastrophe
• New Years Resolution for the CTO
• 2024 in review
• Streamline Your Workflow with ChatGPT and Obsidian
• Kobo Libra Color: Fast, Functional, and Perfect for Readers
• Why Peloton Needs to Embrace Open Innovation Now
• Avoiding Technical Debt: 7 Critical Mistakes to Prevent as a CTO
• Get movie stills to your Samsung Frame
• Security isn’t something you … add
• Vision without a plan is just a dream
• What do you see as the main challenges these days for a CTO?
• 6 tips to put ChatGPT to use
• Remote debugging at 15 billion miles
• Lessons from Private Equity any company can use
• Unlocking value from your company data
• AI is hard; and mostly human
• How it works: Internet Radio
• 2023 in review
• The Art of the KISS
• Failure is an Option
• Technical Debt – A visual guide
• 2022 in review
• Compassionomics ~ book review
• People are leaking their RDS database backups
• What makes a great product manager by James Hamilton
• Adrift America in 100 Charts ~ book review