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One Designer, Ten Iterations, Zero Job Loss

Jul 23, 2026

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4 min read

One Designer, Ten Iterations, Zero Job Loss

Inside a designer's first real experiment with AI-assisted prototyping

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Don't Settle with the Initial Answer

Jul 16, 2026

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4 min read

Don't Settle with the Initial Answer

How follow-up questions turn AI from useful to genuinely indispensable

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

My AI Budget Just Shrank by 98%

Jul 9, 2026

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5 min read

My AI Budget Just Shrank by 98%

What a $15,000 allowance becoming $300 taught me about spending discipline — and what it says about AI's ROI problem

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Is Your Team's AI Chaos Quietly Draining Productivity?

Jul 2, 2026

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5 min read

Is Your Team's AI Chaos Quietly Draining Productivity?

What happens when 10 desks means 10 different AI tools

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Is Your Boss Using AI More Than You?

Jun 25, 2026

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4 min read

Is Your Boss Using AI More Than You?

My new VP sat next to me this week, and his use of Claude was impressive.

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Is AI really coming for your job?

Jun 18, 2026

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4 min read

Is AI really coming for your job?

It doesn't have to if you engage with it.

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Are you vibe coding with corporate data?

Jun 4, 2026

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4 min read

Are you vibe coding with corporate data?

It's very easy now to use commercial tools to create your own solutions, but should you?

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Do you know what you're spending on AI?

May 28, 2026

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4 min read

Do you know what you're spending on AI?

Is your AI use delivering value at work?

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

What's Your Manager's Expectations on AI?

May 21, 2026

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4 min read

What's Your Manager's Expectations on AI?

Does your manager encourage you to use AI in the team, or are they firmly against it?

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

The word for 2026? "Headless"

May 14, 2026

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5 min read

The word for 2026? "Headless"

User interfaces are becoming less important

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Someone Quit Their Job Over AI. Here's What That Tells Us.

May 7, 2026

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4 min read

Someone Quit Their Job Over AI. Here's What That Tells Us.

Would you quit if your employer's view on AI adoption is different to yours?

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

You Need More Than Just Accurate Numbers

Apr 30, 2026

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4 min read

You Need More Than Just Accurate Numbers

The calculated number might be correct, but what if the number is wrong?

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

What are you automating?

Apr 23, 2026

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4 min read

What are you automating?

If you're not building automated processes with AI, your wasting an opportunity,

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Do You Manage a Team?

Apr 16, 2026

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7 min read

Do You Manage a Team?

Humans or agents?

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Are You Taking Risky AI Shortcuts at Work?

Apr 9, 2026

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7 min read

Are You Taking Risky AI Shortcuts at Work?

How “no-code” AI tools, vibe coding, and shadow IT can quietly erode your data security and governance.

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

AI is Confidently Wrong

Apr 2, 2026

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7 min read

AI is Confidently Wrong

AI mistakes can be hard to spot

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

The Right Tools for the Job

Mar 26, 2026

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7 min read

The Right Tools for the Job

How often do you switch between AI tools for different jobs?

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Using AI To Help With Using AI

Mar 5, 2026

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7 min read

Using AI To Help With Using AI

Claude Code has helped me to use the Claude API

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

How AI Gave My Old Website a Second Life

Feb 26, 2026

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9 min read

How AI Gave My Old Website a Second Life

Claude Code: The AI tool that makes me a developer

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

If Staff Are Cheating on AI Exams, Your AI Training Has Failed

Feb 19, 2026

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7 min read

If Staff Are Cheating on AI Exams, Your AI Training Has Failed

Generic training and vague guidance doesn't change human behaviour.

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

You Might Stop Using a User Interface

Feb 12, 2026

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7 min read

You Might Stop Using a User Interface

Could increasing use if MCP and agent mode browser change how we use software?

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Why Software Firms Are Panicking Over Claude's Latest Move

Feb 5, 2026

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7 min read

Why Software Firms Are Panicking Over Claude's Latest Move

Claude Cowork's New Update Just Tanked Tech Stocks—Here's Why

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Everyone Wants to Be Your One Place to Work

Jan 29, 2026

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9 min read

Everyone Wants to Be Your One Place to Work

MCP is Everywhere: The Race to Own Your Workday

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

Creating an AI System with Gong Transcripts

Jan 22, 2026

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8 min read

Creating an AI System with Gong Transcripts

Creating your own Gem can help extract the right data from your transcripts

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper

The Weekly

After 1 Year, the Goal of Plain AI is the Same

Jan 1, 2026

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4 min read

After 1 Year, the Goal of Plain AI is the Same

To educate and inform the non-technical business user on using AI.

Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper
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AI Made Simple for Business Professionals



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