Blog

Robert Griffiths

Technology leader and cloud pioneer with 20+ years enabling enterprise cloud transformation, quantitative innovation, and strategic advisory. Former physicist turned fintech expert with deep expertise in multi-cloud strategy, HPC, and global leadership. Speaker, published author, and advocate for impactful, customer-centric tech change. @RobertGriffiths

Artificial Intelligence
After building a React application with three AI assistants, our developer discovered that extracting your conversation history afterwards is like trying to collect debts in a frontier town: ChatGPT eventually pays up after some serious negotiation, Claude charms you while keeping the vault locked, and Copilot confidently hands you a treasure map to gold buried on someone else's land. The lesson? These AI partners can help you build impressive applications but somehow can't easily tell you what you discussed last Tuesday, so document as you go or risk spending more time archaeological than architectural.
Artificial Intelligence
In this instalment, I discovered that Cursor IDE transformed my chaotic multi-AI orchestra of wayward soloists into something rather more like a proper piano duet, successfully refactoring my 847-line monolith into modular components without the usual algorithmic amnesia. I found that when your IDE becomes your coding partner, you stop waving the baton at three separate musicians who occasionally abandon the sheet music for their own creative interpretations and start playing chamber music, even when you accidentally set fire to the entire score and your duet partner rescues the concert from almost certain disaster by magically producing a fresh copy from the archives.
Artificial Intelligence
A non-React developer built a trade lifecycle simulation using three AI assistants as his coding team, discovering that managing AI agents is rather like conducting an orchestra where each musician excels at different parts of the piece but occasionally abandons the score for a spot of impromptu improvisation. The project demonstrated that whilst AI collaboration can be very useful, someone still needs to wave the baton when your string section decides to have a go at bebop when they should be playing Beethoven.
Podcast
In this month’s episode, we talk multi-cloud. This is a challenging topic, even the first step—nailing down what the term actually means—isn’t easy. How does it differ from hybrid-cloud or poly-cloud? Does the term refer to the deployment approach for a single application or an entire organisation?