https://sugarollymountain.com/blog.html IT strategy insights, perspectives, and practical wisdom from Sugarolly Mountain. en-au Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0800 https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-the-most.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-the-most.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0800 A rant about the LinkedIn post that starts "Most companies are doing this wrong." Where's the research? Where's the data? And why won't anyone just say "most people I know" instead? https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-i-text-my-laptop-now.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-i-text-my-laptop-now.html Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0800 I built a personal AI operating system called KieranOS. It reads my email, runs my issue tracker, publishes my blog posts and answers my texts. Here's what it does, how it works, and the day it got stuck politely talking to itself. https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-the-meter-is-always-running.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-the-meter-is-always-running.html Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Amazon, Meta and Uber all set fire to piles of cash chasing AI usage. The lesson isn't about the technology, it's about measuring the wrong thing, and it plays out on my own MacBook too. https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-too-much-of-a-good-thing.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-too-much-of-a-good-thing.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0800 I built an AI OS, then used its research tool to investigate myself, and learned how AI turns the neurodivergent urge to start new things into a trap, and what actually helps. https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-its-pink.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-its-pink.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0800 The first game I ever wrote, aged 12 on a BBC Micro, and how it became my go-to test for every new language, framework, and AI model, until Claude built it from a single sentence. https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-the-claude-menu.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-the-claude-menu.html Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0800 What I wish someone had told me before I ordered the wrong Claude. A practical, honest guide to Claude's flavours, interfaces, and the mistakes I made so you don't have to. https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-career-limiting-moves.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-career-limiting-moves.html Sat, 23 May 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Two stories from the career archives: a gold wedding ring that fried a mainframe, and an accidental company-wide email that reached all of Port and Rail. https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-ai-slop.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-ai-slop.html Wed, 20 May 2026 09:00:00 +0800 Everyone's talking about AI slop. But for people locked out by talent, time, or neurology, AI isn't slop. It's an open door. https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-rebuilding-with-ai.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-rebuilding-with-ai.html Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 +0800 A personal update on rebuilding sugarollymountain.com using an AI-powered development pipeline, and what that experience revealed about the future of solo development. https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-learn-by-doing-ai.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-learn-by-doing-ai.html Thu, 07 May 2026 15:00:00 +0800 The most effective way to understand what AI can do is to use it. A practical, stage-by-stage guide to getting started with AI in your own life, from Kieran McCluskey. https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-neurodiverse-teams.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-neurodiverse-teams.html Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:00 +0800 A practical, evidence-based case for why cognitive diversity in your team produces better outcomes than homogeneity, from Kieran McCluskey at Sugarolly Mountain. https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-ai-in-agile.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-ai-in-agile.html Thu, 07 May 2026 10:00:00 +0800 Where AI is genuinely useful in agile delivery, where it's hype, and what Project and Product Managers should actually prioritise. From Kieran McCluskey. https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-enterprise-sdlc-ai.html https://sugarollymountain.com/blog-enterprise-sdlc-ai.html Thu, 07 May 2026 09:00:00 +0800 AI is reshaping every SDLC, but most organisations don't know where to begin. A practical, no-hype framework for getting the sequence right, from Kieran McCluskey.