Category: Field Notes

Shorter reflections and reviews that sit outside the four main pillars.

  • I Tested 5 AI Customer Service Agents With the Same Complex Billing Issue – None Escalated Correctly

    I Tested 5 AI Customer Service Agents With the Same Complex Billing Issue – None Escalated Correctly

    None Escalated Correctly – AI customer service systems systematically fail to escalate complex issues to humans, creating frustration and eroding trust. Key Data Points: Last week I tested a billing discrepancy on subscriptions. Same issue. Five different AI chatbots. Different platforms. All claimed they could help. Not one correctly escalated to a human. This isn’t…

  • Robots Physical AI in 2025 – Groundbreaking Advances

    Robots Physical AI in 2025 – Groundbreaking Advances

    When Robots Learned to Fall—The Maturation of Physical AI in 2025 May 2025. A humanoid robot stumbles mid-movement. Handlers rush to check for damage. The robot gets up, dusts itself off, and continues working. That wasn’t luck. Disney Research in Zurich had trained that machine through tens of thousands of Robots simulated falls, teaching it…

  • The Future of Robotics: Soft Material Manipulation Breakthroughs

    The Future of Robotics: Soft Material Manipulation Breakthroughs

    Humanoid robots broke the soft-material barrier in 2025—manipulating fabric, thread, and wiring with sub-millimeter precision. This isn’t incremental progress. It’s the removal of robotics’ most persistent limitation, and entire categories of skilled labour are now economically vulnerable.

  • The Future of Healthcare: How Medicine Will Transform Our Lives by 2075

    The Future of Healthcare: How Medicine Will Transform Our Lives by 2075

    Imagine a world where cancer is detected years before symptoms appear. Where your doctor is an AI assistant available 24/7. And where aging itself becomes a treatable condition. This is the healthcare landscape experts predict we’ll see within the next 30 to 50 years. Based on current research and breakthrough technologies already in development, medicine…

  • AI video for proof of concept

    AI video for proof of concept

    The Compression Economy in Action: Text-to-AI video for proof of concept How AI video generation is reshaping the economics of concept validation—and what it means for your AI video for proof of concept. The Three-Week Problem Enterprise product teams have a dirty secret: most proof-of-concept visualisations cost more to produce than the concepts themselves are…

  • One Week With the £169 AI Recorder Stuck to My Phone – I’m Never Taking It Off

    One Week With the £169 AI Recorder Stuck to My Phone – I’m Never Taking It Off

    The Plaud AI Pro, I’ve been the annoying guy who records every single meeting for years. Phone apps, laptop mics, you name it – I’ve tried them all. Some were okay, most were meh. Then I slapped the Plaud AI Pro on the back of my iPhone seven days ago… and yeah, I’m fully converted.…

  • The Late Shift: Navigating the New Wave of Tech Outages

    The Late Shift: Navigating the New Wave of Tech Outages

    It’s 10:30 PM, and the service tickets are rolling in again. First, it was the Microsoft Azure outage a few weeks ago, and tonight, it’s Cloudflare. As I sit here managing the chaos, I can’t help but ask: Is this our new norm? It really makes you question if our current Business Continuity Plans are…

  • Unlock the Future: Beta Tester Life Delivers Essential Tech Insights

    Unlock the Future: Beta Tester Life Delivers Essential Tech Insights

    Hello and welcome to Beta Tester Life! I’m ‘The Beta Tester,’ and I’m thrilled to launch this platform dedicated to exploring the intricate world where cutting-edge technology, artificial intelligence, and everyday living intersect. My mission? To navigate the vast landscape of tech, providing you with honest reviews, insightful analysis, and a unique perspective forged through…