Technology

Non-terrestrial networks are a recurring subject I've been asked about over the last year or two. Interest amongst Automotive and IoT teams has been piqued by Starlink, and high-return space stocks like RKLB and ASTS have pulled NTNs into the public consciousness. So to answer these questions I'll skip the full telco perspective here and focus on practical deployment.

Engineering, at its best, is repeatable, testable, transferable between people because it's written down as a rule. That's exactly what the razor unit's makers had. What they didn't have was design judgement - the thing rooted in observation rather than specification, that knows when the rule has stopped serving the purpose it was built for. They applied technical rationality to a problem that needed reflection instead, and the result was an object with exact tolerances and n

The gap between a written product concept and working, tested, version-controlled code can now be closed without a developer writing a line of application code. From PRD to PR without code, automation is happening today.

Once you've played around with AI for any length of time and got under the skin of LLMs, you inevitably start to uncover the quirks, weaknesses and vulnerabilities inherent to the fundamental design concepts, and the execution itself. As seen in my other AI projects on the site, it's not hard to trigger those weaknesses once you get beyond basic GenAI and into genuine design and build scenarios.

For decades the businesses of expertise, craftsmanship and luxury have run on a simple exchange: you paid for authority because authority was grounded in the living presence of a specific person. A marketer. A strategist. A lawyer. Someone who could sit across from you, who had walked through the problem themselves, whose judgement was embodied in a living mind that you could hire and pay. Presence became the marker of truth. Not the accuracy of what they said, but the fact t