Dominic Baggott
Get in touchThese are notes from the middle of something. I’ve been building for the web my entire adult life, and the tools I use every day have changed more in the last two years than in all the years before them. So I’m writing down what I’ve built and what I think while it’s happening, and typesetting each piece in a way that would have been completely impractical for me before whatever this is.
The businesses that get to grips with this now will do brilliantly. The ones waiting to see how it shakes out are going to find out the hard way.
I’m Dominic Baggott. I help leadership teams work out what this means for them – and then get on with it. If you’re thinking of working with me, click around and read a few of these first: they show how I think, so you’ll know what you’d be getting yourself into.
Specimen #1A2CFF Opinion
I’ve been chewing on what AI coding assistants actually change about how a product team works. Not the “will it replace engineers” question. Something more mundane, and I think more important: where the time goes. And what we lose when engineering stops being the slow part.
Specimen #F4E409 Credential
A request reaches the API2, gets routed to a model running somewhere on a fleet of 1,500 GPUs3, gets handed to a process inside a Docker container running Cog4, and produces output that’s streamed back to the user5. Somewhere north of 10 million times a day.
Specimen #E8431C Opinion
The trouble is, I don’t think in writing. I can get there in the end, but it’s hard work. So I thought it might be interesting to write about how I use AI tools to make that easier.
Specimen #121212 Credential
If someone’s sent you here, you’ve probably got something big going on. I’d like to hear about it.