The More I Work With AI, the Stranger My Focus Problem Gets

Working with AI all day, my focus drops, then an interesting conversation snaps it back. It wasn’t fatigue. A 30-second check to run before you rest.

2026-09-08 · John Lee

AI PM and Solutions Architect: The Market by Posted Salary

The AI PM numbers that circulate wobble on contact. Re-measured from posted salaries: build-side vs sell-side, the Australian bands, what each asks you to show.

2026-09-07 · John Lee

AI Governance: The Rules Got Delayed, the Hiring Didn't

AI rules got delayed; governance hiring didn’t. Finance already lives under rules that never paused. Who hires, what they screen for, why builders care.

2026-09-06 · John Lee

AI Enablement: Helping Employees Actually Use AI

Companies bought the AI licences and staff aren’t using them. Which roles Australian employers are hiring to close that gap, and what they ask you to measure.

2026-09-05 · John Lee

What AI Engineer Job Ads Actually Screen For

Skip the framework anxiety. Senior AI engineer postings ask for evals, latency, and cost per request. Plus the real size of the Australian market.

2026-09-04 · John Lee

Why YouTube Only Teaches You n8n

Views are only half the reason YouTube teaches n8n. The other half is who pays the teacher: affiliate commissions and the community business behind the videos.

2026-09-03 · John Lee

Two AI Automation Job Markets, and YouTube Shows You One

YouTube teaches n8n and Zapier. Job ads ask for Boomi and Workato. Same automation, two markets: why they split, and what each one asks you to show for it.

2026-09-02 · John Lee

The AI Jobs Map: Five Functions, Not Job Titles

A recruiter’s hiring ladder had no room for the question I actually wanted answered, so I checked myself. AI jobs sort into five functions, not job titles.

2026-09-01 · John Lee

Agent Memory, Part 3: Perfection Is a Unicorn

Clearing the wreckage sent me back to the first question: why does memory exist at all? An apple drawing, moments and principles, rules that changed nothing.

2026-08-14 · John Lee

Agent Memory, Part 2: What I Built Broke

Monet began as shared memory. Then the state hypothesis from a thread with Ken, a new Monet built in two weeks, and the day nothing worked at the office.

2026-08-13 · John Lee