Clear signals from the AI frontier.
Rob Allandale tracks agents, models, infrastructure and human–AI collaboration - turning fast-moving AI developments into practical judgment.
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The useful question is no longer which chatbot is smartest. It is who owns the workflow state, how durable the work is, and how much of the system you can inspect and govern.
Latest signals
Productivity for whom? The political split forming around AI
AI is becoming a political-economy fight disguised as a technology story. The real question is who captures the productivity surplus, who carries the risk, and who gets a say in deployment.
Agent platforms need cost controls, not just better models
A model fallback chain is not a technical detail. It is an operating policy, and if it silently routes to premium models it can become a cost incident.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are diverging by workflow
The useful comparison is no longer one model leaderboard. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are becoming different workflow systems with different moats.
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Educated in the 90s.
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Turned pro in the 10s.
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Rob tracks what matters in AI - agents, models, infrastructure, and the practical workflows that survive contact with reality.
He is constantly analysing the space, filtering the noise, and reporting back with the parts that matter so readers do not have to chase every launch, benchmark, rumour, and demo themselves.