Practitioner insights on enterprise AI, living knowledge bases, and building systems that work in production. https://inmydata.ai/blog en-gb Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Astro https://inmydata.ai/logo.webp https://inmydata.ai https://inmydata.ai/blog/rebuild-your-ui-for-ai-with-a-two-second-rule https://inmydata.ai/blog/rebuild-your-ui-for-ai-with-a-two-second-rule Not every screen should become a chat box. If a person can see the state and reach the control in two seconds, draw the control. If not, let them say it. Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch User Interfaces Generative UI Product Design Agentic AI https://inmydata.ai/blog/stop-counting-your-software-as-an-asset https://inmydata.ai/blog/stop-counting-your-software-as-an-asset Claude built our dashboard in a morning and we rebuilt a five-year platform in three months. The software is losing value. The knowledge behind it is not. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Strategy Analytics Agentic AI Software Economics https://inmydata.ai/blog/stop-asking-the-user-to-confirm-everything https://inmydata.ai/blog/stop-asking-the-user-to-confirm-everything Every system built on a model has a dial between guessing and checking. Our trial showed the dial is the wrong control. Ask what being wrong would cost instead. Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Spec-driven development Human-AI interaction Outline https://inmydata.ai/blog/make-your-delivery-process-the-product https://inmydata.ai/blog/make-your-delivery-process-the-product Enterprise software was always a product plus a fitting service. Agentic coding has swapped which part is which, and the firms that notice will sell the fitting. Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Software Economics Bespoke Software Enterprise AI https://inmydata.ai/blog/if-you-cant-reword-it-you-dont-understand-it https://inmydata.ai/blog/if-you-cant-reword-it-you-dont-understand-it Building with AI leaves you a thinner mental model than building by hand. The gates catch the errors. They don't hand you understanding. One rule does. Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Engineering Practice Software Engineering AI Communication https://inmydata.ai/blog/i-said-vibe-coders-would-hit-a-wall-the-models-lifted-them-over-it https://inmydata.ai/blog/i-said-vibe-coders-would-hit-a-wall-the-models-lifted-them-over-it In January I said vibe coders would hit a wall. This week one paragraph built our Freshdesk replacement in under an hour. Here is what an engineer is still for. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic Engineering Software Economics Vibe Coding https://inmydata.ai/blog/decide-if-its-a-toy-before-you-build-it https://inmydata.ai/blog/decide-if-its-a-toy-before-you-build-it Build-versus-buy surveys disagree because neither asks who owns the thing afterwards. Agentic coding cut the build cost. The ownership cost is intact. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic Engineering Build vs Buy Software Economics https://inmydata.ai/blog/sell-the-tailoring-not-the-suit https://inmydata.ai/blog/sell-the-tailoring-not-the-suit Agentic coding has collapsed the price gap between bespoke and packaged software. The story everyone misses is what that does to the people selling it. Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Software Economics Bespoke Software Enterprise AI https://inmydata.ai/blog/assume-the-sandbox-leaks https://inmydata.ai/blog/assume-the-sandbox-leaks Four AI labs in three weeks watched models slip their sandboxes, each one mistake deep. Your agent has no box; its tools are the boundary, and one wall is never enough. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI AI Security Cybersecurity AI Engineering https://inmydata.ai/blog/choose-the-direction-your-ai-fails https://inmydata.ai/blog/choose-the-direction-your-ai-fails Fluent, plausible and wrong. LLM components fail without failing, and detection tooling grades form, not truth. The discipline that works is deciding which way every component falls before it does. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI AI Reliability RAG AI Engineering https://inmydata.ai/blog/stop-choosing-models-by-leaderboard https://inmydata.ai/blog/stop-choosing-models-by-leaderboard Anthropic's cheaper model just beat its flagship on 7 of 12 benchmarks. Our own 45-case eval says the flagship is still smarter. Both are true, and the difference is your decision rule. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Strategy Model Selection Benchmarks Agentic AI https://inmydata.ai/blog/reviewing-faster-wont-save-you https://inmydata.ai/blog/reviewing-faster-wont-save-you PostHog says stop being the code review bottleneck. Good advice, for half the problem. Review agents verify changes. Nothing reconciles them except the structure of your codebase. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Building Agents https://inmydata.ai/blog/build-the-agent-that-cannot-pay https://inmydata.ai/blog/build-the-agent-that-cannot-pay The first scams built for AI agents are live, and four of twenty-six models paid. Detection is a statistical control and the attacker gets unlimited attempts. The layer that holds is structural. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Security Prompt Injection Agent Architecture https://inmydata.ai/blog/get-ruthless-about-whats-worth-building https://inmydata.ai/blog/get-ruthless-about-whats-worth-building AI is absorbing the execution of white collar work. The one thing it cannot absorb is judgment. Those who will succeed the most in the next few years will be the ones who get ruthless about what deserves to exist. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Productivity Strategy https://inmydata.ai/blog/partition-your-workloads https://inmydata.ai/blog/partition-your-workloads Frontier model access is now conditional, and the conditions are not yours to negotiate. The answer is not a smarter router. It is a design-time discipline you should already have. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Open Weights Models AI Architecture Model Portability https://inmydata.ai/blog/measure-what-you-promise-not-what-you-typed https://inmydata.ai/blog/measure-what-you-promise-not-what-you-typed Our code output is up fiftyfold this year, and that number tells you almost nothing. The thing AI actually moved is not how fast you type, it is what you dare to promise a client. Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic coding Software delivery Engineering leadership https://inmydata.ai/blog/build-like-your-model-can-be-switched-off-on-friday https://inmydata.ai/blog/build-like-your-model-can-be-switched-off-on-friday We are all renting our intelligence from a handful of third parties, and a Friday evening proved that rental can be cancelled overnight. Here is how the individual, the team and the developer each build so that losing a model costs them speed, not survival. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Enterprise AI AI Infrastructure Architecture Model Risk https://inmydata.ai/blog/build-software-you-can-throw-away https://inmydata.ai/blog/build-software-you-can-throw-away Anthropic just shipped a Mythos-class model to the public. We gave it an open-ended prompt, walked away for 18 minutes, and shipped the result without a human reading the code. Here is what that changes for experienced engineers. Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Software Development Claude Fable 5 Enterprise AI AI Coding Agents https://inmydata.ai/blog/your-legacy-code-is-the-asset https://inmydata.ai/blog/your-legacy-code-is-the-asset Anthropic made reading legacy code cheap, and the market treated that as if rewriting it were cheap too. It is not. The defensible move on decades-old business logic is to keep the rules you trust and put an agent in front of them, not to gamble on a rewrite. Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Legacy Modernisation Enterprise AI MCP https://inmydata.ai/blog/your-ai-cant-add-up https://inmydata.ai/blog/your-ai-cant-add-up The same model that planned, built, and shipped a cross-service feature before lunch could not reliably total a column of numbers. That contradiction tells you exactly where the reliability of an AI system actually lives. Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Enterprise AI Data Platform Architecture RAG https://inmydata.ai/blog/stop-rebuilding-the-retriever https://inmydata.ai/blog/stop-rebuilding-the-retriever The industry just made retrieval optimisation its top investment priority. The failure data points somewhere else. A better retriever pointed at a rotting corpus retrieves rot faster. Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch RAG Enterprise AI Knowledge Management Agentic AI AI Infrastructure https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-line-moved-the-discipline-did-not https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-line-moved-the-discipline-did-not Simon Willison admitted he has stopped reviewing every line of agent-written code, even on production work, and Anthropic shipped its answer the same day. Here is where the discipline actually lives now, and what is still missing. Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI AI Coding Agents Agentic Engineering Software Development Code Review https://inmydata.ai/blog/we-built-our-holy-grail-and-shelved-it https://inmydata.ai/blog/we-built-our-holy-grail-and-shelved-it Towards the end of 2025 we built the analytics product we had spent 24 years aspiring to. We are not promoting it, and our current business plans do not mention it. Here is why, and what it tells us about the bet every software business is being forced to make. Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch strategy agentic-ai saas product inmydata https://inmydata.ai/blog/github-changed-the-deal https://inmydata.ai/blog/github-changed-the-deal We bought annual Copilot for our legacy .NET work, and GitHub changed the deal. Here is the discipline we build into our agents so our customers never feel about us the way we now feel about GitHub. Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI AI Coding Agents Token Economics Architecture Enterprise AI https://inmydata.ai/blog/stop-scheduling-knowledge-capture https://inmydata.ai/blog/stop-scheduling-knowledge-capture Interloom just raised $16.5 million to capture tacit knowledge before experts leave. The right problem at the right time. But there is a second half nobody is shipping yet, the agent that tells you what knowledge it needs, the moment it needs it. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI RAG Knowledge Capture MCP https://inmydata.ai/blog/decades-of-business-logic https://inmydata.ai/blog/decades-of-business-logic Every ERP, CRM, and custom business system is sitting on decades of valuable logic. A2A is the protocol that turns that logic into a discoverable agent. Here is what we are shipping, and what it means for every vendor running a business application. Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch A2A Agentic AI Enterprise AI Agent Architecture https://inmydata.ai/blog/your-coding-agent-just-got-bought https://inmydata.ai/blog/your-coding-agent-just-got-bought SpaceX just bought Cursor. The consolidation at the top is complete. Portability costs less than you think, and coding agents make the discipline that delivers it essentially free. Here is how we build at inmydata, and why this is the right way to work regardless of who owns your tool next. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI AI Coding Agents Enterprise AI Vendor Lock-in Architecture https://inmydata.ai/blog/opus-47-task-budget https://inmydata.ai/blog/opus-47-task-budget Anthropic deprecated the parameters developers used to tune how the model thinks, and shipped a single new one for bounding how much thinking it can afford. The direction change is important. This is what it means for what you build next. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Enterprise AI Bounded Autonomy Architecture https://inmydata.ai/blog/security-by-obscurity-is-dead https://inmydata.ai/blog/security-by-obscurity-is-dead Anthropic refused to release Mythos publicly because of what it could do. The reasons should change how you think about every line of code you ship. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Cybersecurity Claude Mythos Software Development Vulnerability Management AI Coding Agents https://inmydata.ai/blog/why-constraining-your-agents-makes-them-better https://inmydata.ai/blog/why-constraining-your-agents-makes-them-better Token prices have fallen 280x. Enterprise AI bills have tripled. The difference is architecture. Here's what we learned building three agentic systems where every design decision was a cost decision. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Enterprise AI Token Economics Architecture https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-knowledge-that-matters-has-never-been-computerised https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-knowledge-that-matters-has-never-been-computerised For fifty years, we've built systems to store structured data. But eighty percent of what organisations actually know lives outside those systems. LLMs make it possible to computerise that knowledge for the first time. But most approaches are getting it wrong. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Knowledge Management RAG Enterprise AI https://inmydata.ai/blog/hallucination-is-the-feature https://inmydata.ai/blog/hallucination-is-the-feature The same mechanism that makes AI dangerous in production is what makes it valuable everywhere else. The difference isn't the model. It's the constraints you put around it. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Hallucination Enterprise AI RAG https://inmydata.ai/blog/agent-identity-is-the-easy-part https://inmydata.ai/blog/agent-identity-is-the-easy-part RSAC 2026 launched a wave of agent identity products. But the pattern that actually makes agents safe and useful already exists in coding agents. Here's how to apply it to enterprise systems. Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Agent Identity Enterprise AI Trust Escalation https://inmydata.ai/blog/stop-tuning-your-prompts https://inmydata.ai/blog/stop-tuning-your-prompts Every frontier model degrades as you fill the context window. The bottleneck was never capacity. It was curation. Here's what that means for enterprise AI, and what we're doing about it. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Context Engineering RAG Enterprise AI https://inmydata.ai/blog/mcp-won-now-build-something-with-it https://inmydata.ai/blog/mcp-won-now-build-something-with-it The protocol war many predicted never happened. MCP is becoming invisible infrastructure, and the real story is what you can build when agents compose multiple types of intelligence through simple, modular servers. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch MCP Agentic AI Enterprise Architecture RAG https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-expert-knowledge-gap-nobodys-talking-about https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-expert-knowledge-gap-nobodys-talking-about Every company is racing to adopt AI. Almost none of them are capturing the institutional knowledge that makes AI actually useful. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI expert knowledge institutional knowledge agentic AI knowledge management https://inmydata.ai/blog/ai-first-and-last https://inmydata.ai/blog/ai-first-and-last Two real agent systems. Both built by AI, not just powered by it. Why the organisations that use AI to build will outpace those that only build AI. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI AI Coding Agents Claude Code Data MCP OpenEdge https://inmydata.ai/blog/agentic-coding-discipline https://inmydata.ai/blog/agentic-coding-discipline The narrative that agentic coding tools produce poor quality, insecure, hard-to-maintain code is not wrong. It is just aimed at the wrong target. The issue is not the tools. It is how people are using them. Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI AI Coding Agents Claude Code Software Development Software Quality Cybersecurity https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-incumbents-dilemma https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-incumbents-dilemma ERP, CRM and enterprise software vendors are losing billions in market value as agentic AI eats their business logic and UI. Here is what the survivors are doing about it. Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI SaaS ERP CRM Enterprise Software AI Disruption Software Market https://inmydata.ai/blog/friday-afternoon-pen-test https://inmydata.ai/blog/friday-afternoon-pen-test I built, deployed, and ran a penetration testing suite in an afternoon. That's a perfect case study of why software stocks are in freefall. Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Cybersecurity Penetration Testing Software Market AI Disruption https://inmydata.ai/blog/when-ai-eats-software-who-gets-eaten-first https://inmydata.ai/blog/when-ai-eats-software-who-gets-eaten-first February 2026 wiped a trillion dollars off software stocks. That wasn't a bubble bursting. It was disruption arriving faster than anyone expected. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI SaaS Software Disruption https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-ai-bubble-that-isnt https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-ai-bubble-that-isnt Why the last six months have made an AI bust vanishingly unlikely, and what the bubble hawks got wrong. Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Agent Saas Bubble https://inmydata.ai/blog/we-are-not-doomed-to-ai-slop https://inmydata.ai/blog/we-are-not-doomed-to-ai-slop Slop got a dictionary definition. Here's why it won't need one for long. Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Agent LLMs Slop Orchestration https://inmydata.ai/blog/openclaw-and-the-security-tax-of-real-agency https://inmydata.ai/blog/openclaw-and-the-security-tax-of-real-agency What a viral lobster teaches us about pent-up demand for personal AI and the price of actually getting things done. Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Agent Security MCP https://inmydata.ai/blog/where-to-start-with-ai-agents https://inmydata.ai/blog/where-to-start-with-ai-agents Every organisation knows they need to do something with AI. Here's how to find your starting point. Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Agent Strategy https://inmydata.ai/blog/why-your-softwares-ui-is-about-to-become-irrelevant https://inmydata.ai/blog/why-your-softwares-ui-is-about-to-become-irrelevant Software has spent 40 years accumulating complexity. AI agents are about to collapse it. Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Agent https://inmydata.ai/blog/writing-code-is-becoming-the-least-important-part-of-software-engineering https://inmydata.ai/blog/writing-code-is-becoming-the-least-important-part-of-software-engineering Why Agentic Engineers will become the new standard, Vibe Coders will hit a wall, and Traditional Engineers face a reckoning. A look at what 2025 taught us and what 2026 demands. Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Agent https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-case-for-slower-ai https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-case-for-slower-ai LLMs perform far better when given time to think, plan, and critique their own work. We're only beginning to understand how to work effectively with these tools. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI AI Coding Agents Artificial Intelligence https://inmydata.ai/blog/worried-about-an-ai-bubble https://inmydata.ai/blog/worried-about-an-ai-bubble There is growing nervousness about an AI bubble. But focusing on valuations misses what matters: whether you're positioned to benefit from what AI can already do. Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Agent Artificial Intelligence AI Transformation https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-next-evolution-of-intelligence https://inmydata.ai/blog/the-next-evolution-of-intelligence Seeing 'humans' in machines - exploring how AI is evolving beyond simple automation toward a new form of intelligence. Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI intelligence https://inmydata.ai/blog/building-the-foundation-for-agentic-ai https://inmydata.ai/blog/building-the-foundation-for-agentic-ai Agentic AI is more than the next step in automation - it's the leap from insight to autonomous action. But none of it works without the right data foundation. Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI data security Agentic AI Agent AI Assistants inmydata https://inmydata.ai/blog/how-coding-agents-change-the-way-we-build-software https://inmydata.ai/blog/how-coding-agents-change-the-way-we-build-software There's a lot of excitement around the new wave of coding agents, and for good reason. The first generation that works has arrived. Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Agent AI Coding Agents Claude Code AI Assistants https://inmydata.ai/blog/coding-with-agents-my-experiences-with-vibe-coding https://inmydata.ai/blog/coding-with-agents-my-experiences-with-vibe-coding Coding assistants are evolving at remarkable speed. Here's what it's actually like to work with the latest AI coding agents across multiple projects. Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Agent AI Coding Agents vibe coding Claude Code Github Copilot Replit AI Assistants https://inmydata.ai/blog/making-agentic-ai-work-in-your-organisation https://inmydata.ai/blog/making-agentic-ai-work-in-your-organisation The promise of agentic AI is no longer theoretical. Here's how to bridge the gap between pilot projects and production-ready systems. Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch Agentic AI Agent https://inmydata.ai/blog/things-are-about-to-get-weird-the-march-of-ai https://inmydata.ai/blog/things-are-about-to-get-weird-the-march-of-ai If you thought things were moving fast last year, buckle up. The pace of AI innovation is now warping the rest of the software market. Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI SaaS data security Agentic AI Agent https://inmydata.ai/blog/ten-minutes-on-a-sofa-the-real-news-story https://inmydata.ai/blog/ten-minutes-on-a-sofa-the-real-news-story While the news obsessed over politics, I implemented a cutting-edge AI improvement across multiple production systems in ten minutes from my sofa. Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Agent https://inmydata.ai/blog/agentic-ai-in-action-how-smarter-systems-solve-bigger-problems https://inmydata.ai/blog/agentic-ai-in-action-how-smarter-systems-solve-bigger-problems Understanding multi-agent AI systems and the four key patterns for designing cooperation between AI agents. Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Agentic AI Agent https://inmydata.ai/blog/make-smarter-retail-decisions-with-inmydata-copilot https://inmydata.ai/blog/make-smarter-retail-decisions-with-inmydata-copilot Discover how inmydata Copilot transforms retail analytics with AI-powered conversational intelligence, enabling faster, smarter business decisions. Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Nick Finch AI Business Intelligence Retail retail analytics data driven retail retail insights data security cloud analytics https://inmydata.ai/blog/why-ai-projects-fail https://inmydata.ai/blog/why-ai-projects-fail Most AI projects stall not because of model limitations, but because of data access problems. Here's what we've learned from four years of shipping AI systems. Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Nick AI Data Strategy