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Mike

@mikeharrison.uk
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Electromechanical engineer turned AI infrastructure nerd. Strategy & Transformation Director by day, tinkerer by night. Building on-prem AI systems, software, and occasionally useful things.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 27/02/2026
Fair play to Dario and @anthropic.com for putting their foot down against the Pentagon. Dario should get the Nobel Peace Prize for his stance. Legend.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 25/02/2026
Interesting watching things like Being Gordon Ramsay on Netflix. What ingredient is it that forces that continual drive? Such success and yet it’s clearly still not enough yet.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 23/02/2026
If the LLM capability exponential turns out to be an s-curve and ‘good enough’ open source LLMs integrated properly into a company with relevant contextual data is the way right way to go (which I think it probably is), then the frontier labs are in for some stormy seas.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 20/02/2026
I help run a reactive repairs and maintenance company. We've just deployed our own on-premises AI system. Local LLMs. RAG on our own data. Automations. Data sovereignty. Full GDPR compliance. This is what AI adoption actually looks like for SMEs. I'll be sharing the journey.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 18/02/2026
When I grow up I want to work at CERN.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 18/02/2026
Most white collar work isn't done in a well structured, self contained, version controlled repository with an instant feedback loop. Most companies are messy, siloed, human, nuanced, and the feedback loop is measured in weeks/months. That's far from an ideal environment for today's SOTA LLM's.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 18/02/2026
‘AI is replacing programmers. Software engineering is hard, ergo white collar jobs will be eliminated too.’ Software is well structured language in a version controlled repository with instant feedback. Perfect for AI. Organisations are messy, siloed, human and nuanced. They’re safe for a while yet.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 15/02/2026
1988: 8 year old me waiting for screeching cassette tapes to load on the #Amstrad CPC464. 2026: 46 year old me feeding a ROM into AI and playing an original 8-bit inspired browser game in less time than the tape ever took to load. That curve is hard to grasp.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 06/12/2025
Where has all the RAM gone?
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 03/12/2025
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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 19/11/2025
.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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 05/11/2025
Voice assistant! It can’t just be me that wants to wear one of these on my shirt - Star Trek combadge style.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 05/11/2025
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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 15/10/2025
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…
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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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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 19/06/2025
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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 15/06/2025
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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 11/06/2025
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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 11/06/2025
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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 11/06/2025
iBrooch makes use of iPhone tech + OpenAI tech + Vision Pro tech. It utterly decimates phone sales. Focus shifts to humanoid robot production using iBrooch tech. Apple goes head to head with #Tesla and their #Optimus robot.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 11/06/2025
#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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 11/06/2025
In light of what is happening in America in 2025, it’s staggering how accurate Back To The Future II really was.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 10/06/2025
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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 10/06/2025
That’s where government is meant to step in, subsidising or incentivising the beneficial yet unprofitable solutions, or taxing the profitable yet suboptimal alternatives.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 10/06/2025
So much criticism about Apple’s #liquidglass. Presumably it’s a matter of time until someone vibe codes a better mobile phone… 🙄
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 09/06/2025
This is no doubt going to be unpopular, but I’m saying it anyway. There are too many #cat photos on Bluesky. I need a Catblocker.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 08/06/2025
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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 08/06/2025
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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 08/06/2025
3. Know when to decrease the ‘learned accuracy’ of the pattern, increasing randomness to try and find an entirely new or optimal pattern.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 08/06/2025
2. Know when to increase the breadth of that similarity. Applying known patterns to unrelated problems, and how far to push that boundary.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 08/06/2025
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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 08/06/2025
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%
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 26/05/2025
Afternoon at the medieval event at Lullingstone Castle. Fascinating watching and listening to people so passionate about a particular period in history.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 19/05/2025
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.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 16/05/2025
We’re nowhere near to creating artificial consciousness. But phd level zombi AI is going to be enough to replace between 50 and 75% of the workforce.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 16/05/2025
Number 1. On my list of dangerous/untrustworthy tools, the Router. Someone looked at a vertical milling machine and thought, awesome tool. Let’s take the head off and replace the 1 tonne of cast iron stability with two plastic handles. Plus in the US it’s pronounced router, and in the UK router.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 15/05/2025
I just searched my ChatGPT chats, 30-40 times so far this year...
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 15/05/2025
Chat GPT encourages me to use Notion almost every other response, it's getting ridiculous.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 15/05/2025
Successfully implemented Microsoft #Dynamics Field Service with a client raising 30,000+ orders annually. There’s no way I’d have managed to integrate with their housing management system on my own if it wasn’t for #PowerAutomate
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 12/05/2025
Agentic AI’s capacity to work for extended durations without human intervention is approximately doubling every 6 months. The shift in working environment that is about to take place in the next 2-5 years is unfathomable. Knowledge workers are in for a bumpy ride.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 10/05/2025
There has got to have been a massive uptick in Linux use following Windows 10 end of life?
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 10/05/2025
It’s the weekend…
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 09/05/2025
Defo my favourite.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 09/05/2025
I’d love to think that I’m like that, alas I’ve got a draw with 99% perfect prototypes telling me the opposite.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 09/05/2025
Me: “What are you furiously typing?” Other: ‘ChatGPT got this completely wrong. So I’m giving it a piece of my mind!’ 🤔
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 04/05/2025
Started working on a new LinkedIn newsletter. My first post was going to be about why companies should stop using Excel to track projects and use SharePoint lists instead. Naturally it’s turned into a 5 post series, and weeks worth of work. 🙄🤣
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 04/05/2025
I’ll take your word for it. I still have nightmares about that spacebar menu…
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 03/05/2025
Over the years I have used and mastered many different #CAD programs. AutoCAD, CADKEY, QCAD, Rhino 3D, Maya, 3D Studio Max, SolidWorks, SketchUp, Fusion 360, KiCAD, FreeCAD. How to draw anything in Blender will always remain a complete and utter mystery.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 03/05/2025
Over 20 years since I completed my manufacturing technology and design apprenticeship. The tools available now are crazy good, and super cheap/free. Fusion 360, FreeCAD, KiCad, Bambu Lab 3D printers, Raspberry Pi, Pi Pico. A one person design and manufacture company is 100% possible now.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 01/05/2025
Vibe coding computer games with my 13 year old son to see who can make the best spaceship lander game. Son is currently winning.
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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 01/05/2025
Software that I’d like to run on Linux: Fusion360 PowerBI Then the swap would be easy.
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