https://chrisandsree.blog/ From inside a technology transformation. Leadership, transformation, scaling teams, and AI in practice. en-GB https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/three-months-in.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/three-months-in.html Two years into the AI journey. Three months since the last post. Here's what's held, what's shifted, and what we're seeing now about behaviour change, team alignment, and the real cost of AI at scale. Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/field-notes-from-the-ai-weather-system.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/field-notes-from-the-ai-weather-system.html Seven things that crystallised over May and June — Copilot adoption data, governance shifts, agent vocabulary, and why the big-programme reflex is the enemy. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/match-the-tool-to-the-team.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/match-the-tool-to-the-team.html Cowork, OpenClaw or Microsoft Scout? Standardising on one desktop AI assistant is the mistake. The real job is matching the tool to the person who has to use it. Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/i-published-my-first-blog-using-git.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/i-published-my-first-blog-using-git.html I've never installed a developer tool in my life. Then I published this blog using Git and voice prompts — and it changed how I think about leading AI transformation. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/the-quietest-signal.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/the-quietest-signal.html Token graphs feel like momentum, but they measure motion, not movement. The clearest sign an AI transformation is working is quieter — and almost impossible to screenshot. Sat, 30 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/one-puzzle-at-a-time.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/one-puzzle-at-a-time.html Building a global, high-performing tech team isn't about grand rollouts or overnight changes. It's about placing one piece, one brand, one squad at a time — and realising you've only just begun. Thu, 21 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/ai-in-the-engine-room.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/ai-in-the-engine-room.html Cloudflare pointed a security-focused AI model at live production infrastructure and published what they found — including where it fell short. That honesty is worth paying attention to. Tue, 19 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/both-in-the-room.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/both-in-the-room.html The tech side and the people side of AI transformation aren't separate conversations. They never were. What it takes to run them together — from inside Travelopia. Sun, 17 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/whats-an-fde.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/whats-an-fde.html A plain-language explainer for non-tech leaders: what a Forward Deployed Engineer actually does, why every AI vendor is hiring them in 2026, and what it changes for the buyer. Thu, 14 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/nine-lessons-from-scaling-ai.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/nine-lessons-from-scaling-ai.html Two years into scaling AI at Travelopia, nine things I wish someone had told me at the start — about hype, fluency, what AI is actually for, and what it means to lead from experience. Wed, 13 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/what-we-are-sensing-in-ai.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/what-we-are-sensing-in-ai.html Eight threads I'm tracking in AI right now — what's actually shifting in tempo, architecture, risk, and how the wider world is reading it. Wed, 13 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/from-tasks-to-transformation.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/from-tasks-to-transformation.html Most organisations are getting measurably better at tasks — and measurably nowhere on transformation. Why early wins quietly become 'thinking small', and what changes when AI is pointed at flow instead of tasks. Tue, 12 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/why-the-hard-part-of-ai-isnt-the-technology.html https://chrisandsree.blog/articles/why-the-hard-part-of-ai-isnt-the-technology.html AI initiatives stall not because the tooling is wrong, but because organisations treat them as a technology rollout instead of a behaviour change. The first in a short series on what I've learned at Travelopia. Fri, 08 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000