AI for the rest of us Welcome to the AI community for everyone. Dear Friends, Today is an incredibly exciting day for Hannah. Today she’s launching a new product. Having spent most of 2025 helping other AI startups she decided it was her turn. BIMP is a Base Image Management Platform. Alongside co-founder and partner Stuart Preston, BIMP brings together some of Hannah’s favourite subjects - Platform Engineering, Cyber-Security and Agentic Software Development. If you work in software...
13 days ago • 8 min read
AI for the rest of us Welcome to the AI community for everyone. Hello friends, Join us for our monthly meetup in Central London on Wednesday 18th March. This month we’re focussed on Agentic Automation with Kiran Pendem and Minisha Goel. We’ll be discussing when to use Agentic Automation and how powerful agents like Claude Code can help everyone, not just for developers. As always, it’s sure to be a practical and inspiring evening. Massive thanks to our new meetup sponsor Leapter for...
20 days ago • 8 min read
AI for the rest of us Welcome to the AI community for everyone. Hello friends, Charles went with his wife and youngest to see recreational mathematician, stand-up comedian, best-selling author, and YouTuber Matt Parker in his new show, "Getting Triggy with It" at the Hexagon in Reading on Wednesday. Matt kicked things off by dividing the audience into two groups: ‘Category Zero’ for the fellow maths geeks who watch his videos (Charles’ wife and youngest), and ‘Category One’ for those who’ve...
27 days ago • 9 min read
AI for the rest of us Welcome to the AI community for everyone. Hello friends, Earlier this week, Charles received some new saxophone takes for a track off the forthcoming third twofish album. He kicked off a download, stepped into an important meeting with a new client on a different laptop — and halfway through, the download finished, whereupon macOS helpfully opened the files in the Music app and played them at full volume. Oops! He hopes your week has gone better. Sat in the pub on Friday...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
AI for the rest of us Welcome to the AI community for everyone. Hello friends, It was a big week for our community! The AI for the rest of us meet-up this week was our largest yet! 110 people came together on Thursday to learn about “AI coding the right way” with Daniel Jones (re:cinq), Corey Leigh Latislaw (JustEat Takeaway) and Norberto Lopes (Incident.io). Another huge thank you to our hosts at Tessl, especially to Sam who was tirelessly bringing in more chairs as the room filled up!...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
AI for the rest of us Welcome to the AI community for everyone. Hello friends, The sun is shining in Surrey this morning, and a less grumpy Charles (well, compared to last week anyway) has been amused by the fact that two high-profile AI company resignations involve poets. Perhaps there's something about watching large language models pastiche human creativity at scale which drives people back to the irreducibly human art of poetry. Or maybe poets just have a keener sense of when to get out....
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
AI for the rest of us Welcome to the AI community for everyone. Hello friends, Everyone is talking about Moltbook and we are no different. If you haven’t heard about Moltbook, it’s a “social network for AI agents” - a place on the internet where LLM twaddle is the main event. For once Hannah is more opinionated than Charles on the subject. Read on for a good old rant. Charles is writing this week whilst sitting by the fire and wondering if it will ever stop raining. Perhaps because of the...
about 2 months ago • 8 min read
AI for the rest of us Welcome to the AI community for everyone. Hello friends, This week Hannah and Charles met up in person to finalise the newsletter before heading to the AI for the rest of us meetup. Hannah is currently enjoying a weekend away in Lisbon for her friend’s 40th birthday. Sadly the forecast looks like rain but it’s sure to be a fun adventure anyway! Thursday’s London meetup was packed. Thank you to everyone who joined us in person to learn from Masha Gaganova, Phil Le-Brun...
2 months ago • 7 min read
AI for the rest of us Welcome to the AI community for everyone. Hello friends, This week Hannah is reflecting on the use of LLMs for writing. This newsletter is not AI-generated, neither the writing or the research (shocking right?) We share with you the actual articles and stories that we genuinely read, and we embellish those with our actual opinions in our own words. Controversial. Maybe it’s confirmation bias but it was good to read that other people feel the same way about AI-generated...
2 months ago • 7 min read