Mike
@mikeharrison.uk
Engineer. Exploring how AI and open-source tools enable a business with near-zero overhead. Ubuntu • n8n • Ollama • PostgreSQL
Where has all the RAM gone?
December 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Where has all the RAM gone?
Open WebUI and Ollama work fantastically well together. Crazy enough that I’ve got a local LLM running on a home server. Even crazier that I implemented RAG and an SQL agent this evening, for those tools, using those tools to help me.
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Open WebUI and Ollama work fantastically well together. Crazy enough that I’ve got a local LLM running on a home server. Even crazier that I implemented RAG and an SQL agent this evening, for those tools, using those tools to help me.
.md files in a GitHub repo + Claude CLI = the future of corporate documentation.
HR policies, finance procedures, legal docs, all version controlled. AI reads, suggests edits, and every change is tracked through git.
No more SharePoint sprawl. Just clean, auditable, AI-enhanced documentation.
HR policies, finance procedures, legal docs, all version controlled. AI reads, suggests edits, and every change is tracked through git.
No more SharePoint sprawl. Just clean, auditable, AI-enhanced documentation.
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
.md files in a GitHub repo + Claude CLI = the future of corporate documentation.
HR policies, finance procedures, legal docs, all version controlled. AI reads, suggests edits, and every change is tracked through git.
No more SharePoint sprawl. Just clean, auditable, AI-enhanced documentation.
HR policies, finance procedures, legal docs, all version controlled. AI reads, suggests edits, and every change is tracked through git.
No more SharePoint sprawl. Just clean, auditable, AI-enhanced documentation.
Voice assistant! It can’t just be me that wants to wear one of these on my shirt - Star Trek combadge style.
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Voice assistant! It can’t just be me that wants to wear one of these on my shirt - Star Trek combadge style.
The Raging Moderates and Prof G Markets have completely taken over my podcast bandwidth. Jessica and Ed are brilliant. After that chat with @kyla.bsky.social if @profgalloway.com doesn’t encourage her to join the team soon, it’ll be an epic miss.
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Raging Moderates and Prof G Markets have completely taken over my podcast bandwidth. Jessica and Ed are brilliant. After that chat with @kyla.bsky.social if @profgalloway.com doesn’t encourage her to join the team soon, it’ll be an epic miss.
Simplify. Structure. Automate. Then Add AI. The Real Path to ROI
This article is an expanded version of my first post in the Simplify Structure Automate newsletter on LinkedIn, updated for readers here with added context and examples. The Hype vs. Reality Companies are throwing billions at AI. But…
This article is an expanded version of my first post in the Simplify Structure Automate newsletter on LinkedIn, updated for readers here with added context and examples. The Hype vs. Reality Companies are throwing billions at AI. But…
Simplify. Structure. Automate. Then Add AI. The Real Path to ROI
This article is an expanded version of my first post in the Simplify Structure Automate newsletter on LinkedIn, updated for readers here with added context and examples. The Hype vs. Reality Companies are throwing billions at AI. But how many can honestly say they’ve seen a measurable return? Too often, leadership teams start with the wrong question:“Where can we add AI?”
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October 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Simplify. Structure. Automate. Then Add AI. The Real Path to ROI
This article is an expanded version of my first post in the Simplify Structure Automate newsletter on LinkedIn, updated for readers here with added context and examples. The Hype vs. Reality Companies are throwing billions at AI. But…
This article is an expanded version of my first post in the Simplify Structure Automate newsletter on LinkedIn, updated for readers here with added context and examples. The Hype vs. Reality Companies are throwing billions at AI. But…
Benefit of having an electric car when it’s warm. Drive through the French doors, park in the living room, open the windows and turn on the air conditioning.
June 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Benefit of having an electric car when it’s warm. Drive through the French doors, park in the living room, open the windows and turn on the air conditioning.
I’ve been looking around for a while for an old butler sink for the outdoor kitchen I’m building. Yesterday one of my neighbours got rid of one, which would be great on its own, but this sink is originally from the British Museum, making it awesome.
June 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I’ve been looking around for a while for an old butler sink for the outdoor kitchen I’m building. Yesterday one of my neighbours got rid of one, which would be great on its own, but this sink is originally from the British Museum, making it awesome.
The only logical answer is to focus on two things:
1. Energy innovation, get the cost of energy to trend towards zero.
2. Automation, automate as much as ‘humanoidly’ possible.
With the cost of production trending to £0, wealth inequality evaporates and we can live in a world of abundance.
1. Energy innovation, get the cost of energy to trend towards zero.
2. Automation, automate as much as ‘humanoidly’ possible.
With the cost of production trending to £0, wealth inequality evaporates and we can live in a world of abundance.
June 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The only logical answer is to focus on two things:
1. Energy innovation, get the cost of energy to trend towards zero.
2. Automation, automate as much as ‘humanoidly’ possible.
With the cost of production trending to £0, wealth inequality evaporates and we can live in a world of abundance.
1. Energy innovation, get the cost of energy to trend towards zero.
2. Automation, automate as much as ‘humanoidly’ possible.
With the cost of production trending to £0, wealth inequality evaporates and we can live in a world of abundance.
Jony and Sam fall out with each other due to differing strategic objectives. The former wanting to focus on autonomous health care, the latter autonomous warfare.
Elon relocates to Mars and uses #Neuralink to maintain humanoid presence on Earth.
Elon relocates to Mars and uses #Neuralink to maintain humanoid presence on Earth.
June 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Jony and Sam fall out with each other due to differing strategic objectives. The former wanting to focus on autonomous health care, the latter autonomous warfare.
Elon relocates to Mars and uses #Neuralink to maintain humanoid presence on Earth.
Elon relocates to Mars and uses #Neuralink to maintain humanoid presence on Earth.
#Future prediction: Sam Altman and Jony Ive take over control of #Apple as it continues to struggle with Government pressure on the location of its manufacturing supply chain, and an uninspiring product development cycle.
They start with an AI enabled brooch that we all wear on our chests.
They start with an AI enabled brooch that we all wear on our chests.
June 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
In light of what is happening in America in 2025, it’s staggering how accurate Back To The Future II really was.
June 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
In light of what is happening in America in 2025, it’s staggering how accurate Back To The Future II really was.
I’ve spent the evening reading about how spacetime might not be fundamental. I’m calling it, us being in a simulation is the only plausible explanation.
June 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I’ve spent the evening reading about how spacetime might not be fundamental. I’m calling it, us being in a simulation is the only plausible explanation.
That’s where government is meant to step in, subsidising or incentivising the beneficial yet unprofitable solutions, or taxing the profitable yet suboptimal alternatives.
June 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
That’s where government is meant to step in, subsidising or incentivising the beneficial yet unprofitable solutions, or taxing the profitable yet suboptimal alternatives.
So much criticism about Apple’s #liquidglass. Presumably it’s a matter of time until someone vibe codes a better mobile phone… 🙄
June 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
So much criticism about Apple’s #liquidglass. Presumably it’s a matter of time until someone vibe codes a better mobile phone… 🙄
This still looks like a solvable problem.
The energy requirement is going to be the major limiting factor to AI for quite some time, not the capability to reason.
The energy requirement is going to be the major limiting factor to AI for quite some time, not the capability to reason.
June 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
This still looks like a solvable problem.
The energy requirement is going to be the major limiting factor to AI for quite some time, not the capability to reason.
The energy requirement is going to be the major limiting factor to AI for quite some time, not the capability to reason.
4. Hold a weighting of fundamental principles. When faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem, which fundamental principle should be scrutinised first.
It’s in this area that the science community often operate.
It’s in this area that the science community often operate.
June 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
4. Hold a weighting of fundamental principles. When faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem, which fundamental principle should be scrutinised first.
It’s in this area that the science community often operate.
It’s in this area that the science community often operate.
3. Know when to decrease the ‘learned accuracy’ of the pattern, increasing randomness to try and find an entirely new or optimal pattern.
June 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
3. Know when to decrease the ‘learned accuracy’ of the pattern, increasing randomness to try and find an entirely new or optimal pattern.
2. Know when to increase the breadth of that similarity. Applying known patterns to unrelated problems, and how far to push that boundary.
June 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
2. Know when to increase the breadth of that similarity. Applying known patterns to unrelated problems, and how far to push that boundary.
Surely the difference with human reasoning is the ability to:
1. Apply known patterns to ‘broadly similar’ problems.
What weighting to apply to known patterns to optimise which to try first, and how long to keep trying.
1. Apply known patterns to ‘broadly similar’ problems.
What weighting to apply to known patterns to optimise which to try first, and how long to keep trying.
June 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Surely the difference with human reasoning is the ability to:
1. Apply known patterns to ‘broadly similar’ problems.
What weighting to apply to known patterns to optimise which to try first, and how long to keep trying.
1. Apply known patterns to ‘broadly similar’ problems.
What weighting to apply to known patterns to optimise which to try first, and how long to keep trying.
New paper by Apple suggests that #AI ‘Reasoning Models’ don’t reason at all they just pattern match really well. They hit a wall of complexity, even with unlimited compute. If they haven’t seen a problem before and had the opportunity to memorised its patterns, accuracy falls to 0%
June 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
New paper by Apple suggests that #AI ‘Reasoning Models’ don’t reason at all they just pattern match really well. They hit a wall of complexity, even with unlimited compute. If they haven’t seen a problem before and had the opportunity to memorised its patterns, accuracy falls to 0%
Afternoon at the medieval event at Lullingstone Castle. Fascinating watching and listening to people so passionate about a particular period in history.
May 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Afternoon at the medieval event at Lullingstone Castle. Fascinating watching and listening to people so passionate about a particular period in history.
If it ever turns out that sentience is emergent from ‘intelligence’, #AI is in an impossible position to let us know about it. In teaching it to master our language stochastically, we’d never believe it if it tried to tell us.
May 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If it ever turns out that sentience is emergent from ‘intelligence’, #AI is in an impossible position to let us know about it. In teaching it to master our language stochastically, we’d never believe it if it tried to tell us.